John Brothers
John Brothers currently serves as the President of the T. Rowe Price Foundation and President of T. Rowe Price Charitable. Dr. Brothers comes to T. Rowe Price from Quidoo, an international consulting firm he started and led for over a decade, merging the firm in 2015.
During Dr. Brother’s tenure at T. Rowe Price, he is responsible for leading a long list of innovative and influential efforts, including the creation of the Elevation Awards, DesignFest, Civic Innovators, Moonshot, Baltimore One Book and the State of the Sector Report, among many others. Dr. Brothers has served in lead roles toward the creation of nationally recognized public-private efforts like the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund and the Baltimore Squeegee Collaborative.
Under Dr. Brothers’ leadership, T. Rowe Price has become widely recognized and honored as a social sector leader in several areas including Trust-Based social good, partnership, evaluation, governance and how companies build authentic relationships in local communities. Over 200 global brands have sought the advice of Dr. Brothers and the social-good model he created at T. Rowe Price since early 2020.
Dr. Brothers served as a management and social policy professor for over a decade at NYU and Rutgers University and served as a Visiting Scholar at the Hauser Center at Harvard. He currently alternates teaching engagements between the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup with the Goucher Prison Education Project and the College of Business at Coppin State University, a historically Black college located in Baltimore.
He also is currently serving as an Honorary Professor of Practice at Queen’s University in Northern Ireland and has worked with the China Global Philanthropy Institute in Beijing. Dr. Brothers received an MPA from New York University, an MBA from American Public University and a doctorate from Northeastern University, where in addition to his studies, Dr. Brothers lived in a homeless shelter focused on children and families.
Dr. Brothers has been a writer for Forbes, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Brookings Institution, Nonprofit Quarterly and the Huffington Post and is an author of and in several books. He has been interviewed, referenced or quoted in hundreds of local, national and international media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, ABC News and the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Brothers has spoken to tens of thousands on third-sector and social-safety net effectiveness and public-private partnerships, in all fifty states and in over forty countries.
Dr. Brothers began his work serving in the local community, inspired by growing up in deep poverty and homelessness, serving as a community organizer and family case manager in urban neighborhoods in the Midwest to leadership positions with local and national organizations on the East Coast. Dr. Brothers is proud that this work leaves a legacy of innovative efforts that still serves every day a wide network of children and families, including unhoused women and children receiving emergency services in Northern Virginia, to after-school programs for children in public housing in South Brooklyn to transitional housing options for immigrant families in Boston who are suffering from domestic violence.