Twin Cities' Business, Government, and Community Leader Joins St. Paul-based Fieldstone Alliance

ST. PAUL, MN (September 18, 2006)—Fieldstone Alliance today announced that Tom Triplett, a long-time Twin Cities leader in the nonprofit, business, and government sectors, has joined the organization as a Principal Consultant.

Fieldstone Alliance 's President Carol Lukas said: "The addition of Triplett to our staff broadens our expertise and capacity to address the challenging financial issues facing the nonprofit sector. In an environment of tight dollars and increasing competition, nonprofits and the social sector as a whole need to look for creative ways to sustain organizations and finance delivery systems in order to maximize social impact."

Just one year after spinning off from the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Fieldstone Alliance has established a distinctive place in the national nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. They were recently awarded a $9.3 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to work in partnership with Nonprofit Finance Fund of New York to strengthen the effectiveness and sustainability of Kellogg's U.S.-based grantees, and to use the knowledge created in that work to strengthen the nonprofit sector across the country.

In his role as Principal Consultant, Triplett will lead Fieldstone Alliance's consulting work with key organizations, grantmakers, and intermediaries on financial and business strategy and overall performance. Triplett expressed his great pleasure in joining "one of the nation's premier nonprofit consulting and publishing firms."

About Tom Triplett

Tom Triplett is an attorney who has worked in many capacities with Minnesota nonprofits, business, and government enterprises. His work focuses on the financial health of organizations with an emphasis on  revenue streams, strategy development and business planning.

Prior to his new role with Fieldstone Alliance, Tom was an independent consultant, Senior Policy Advisor to the Mayor of Saint Paul, Interim President of the St. Paul Convention and Visitors Bureau, President of the College of Visual Arts, Executive Director of the Minnesota Business Partnership, Deputy Counsel to the Minnesota Attorney General, Commissioner of three different Minnesota state agencies: Finance, Revenue and Planning, and an attorney with two of the Twin Cities' largest law firms.

He is an Executive Fellow and Adjunct Faculty member of the College of Business at the University of St. Thomas . He is a graduate of Grinnell College and the Duke University School of Law and serves on several nonprofit boards including his current role as Chairman of a charter high school, the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists.

Contact
Fieldstone Alliance
Carol Zapfel
651.556.4505
czapfel@FieldstoneAlliance.org

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