After graduating from UT with a BA in Psychology, Greg’s first job was with the El Paso Juvenile Court System to create and launch a program to keep kids from frequent cycling back through the juvenile justice system. That program’s huge success led to his recruitment at age 23 to create, launch, and run Big Brothers/Big Sisters of El Paso, including building and training a new community board of directors.
Later, while working on his MBA in Management back at UT, he trained many Austin nonprofit boards in community accountability practices (and was honored as United Way’s Volunteer Trainer of the Year). Over the succeeding years after completing his MBA, he served as Director of Administration for Legal Aid of Central Texas, as Finance & Operations Director for Texas Council on Family Violence (where he helped launch the National Domestic Violence Hotline), and as the first Deputy Director for Finance & Administration for SafePlace (which had just been formed by the merger of Center for Battered Women and Austin Rape Crisis Center).
At one point, he left his nonprofit career for a few years to help his wife launch and grow a very successful insurance agency. But community service kept calling him back, and eventually he agreed to join Greenlights for Nonprofit Success (now called Mission Capital) as a strategic management consultant and trainer and to launch a new service called Greenlights Back Office, which provided financial management services and Board accountability support to over 50 community nonprofits.
Finally, until his retirement, he was recruited to join a software firm that specializes in nonprofit information needs, and guided both nonprofits and software reseller partners in effective use of nonprofit management information.