Peg Tyre

Peg Tyre is an award-winning journalist, a New York Times bestselling author and a builder of nonprofits. At the Edwin Gould Foundation, Peg runs the media grants portfolio and help run the EGF Accelerator, the country's premier residential incubator for education-related nonprofits. Together with a small team, she selects organizations and helps them grow by providing management consulting, enhancing their external partnerships, doing crisis communications, supporting their fundraising and helping them recruit and retain talented employees. In this role, Peg has brought several small nonprofits to national prominence. She is a senior advisor and board member to Quill.org, a nonprofit ed-tech company that was built around ideas in an award-winning story she wrote for The Atlantic. (Quill.org builds free, open-sourced digital tools to help teachers provide classical writing instruction to low-income students. Quill.org now has over 2 million users.) Peg serves as an advisor to several foundations, institutions and private philanthropists including Vancouver real estate magnate Ryan Beedie. She also works as an independent journalist and recently spent six weeks in Asia as an Abe Fellow looking at critical thinking in education there. She has written best-selling books and award-winning articles for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Hechinger, Politico, Smithsonian, Forbes, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Time.com and many others. Peg frequently lectures at independent and public schools, to funders and strategists.