Alexander Brown, MBA, PhD, LCSW has over
twenty-five years’ experience providing services and managing programs in
nonprofit organizations. He is currently Interim Executive Director of Friedman
Place, a supported living community for adults who are visually impaired. He has served as clinical director of a very large nonprofit that provides a
wide range of social services to people in Cook and Dupage Counties; executive director of an agency that provides supportive housing to adults recovering
from chronic mental illnesses; managed community-based programs that serve
older adults; and he has worked in hospital-based crisis intervention, outpatient therapy, and
employee assistance programs. He has served as a reviewer for the Council
on Accreditation (COA) and Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation
Facilities (CARF) and currently teaches graduate-level courses in Human
Resources and Nonprofit Marketing at DePaul University’s School of Public
Service and Concordia University’s Graduate School of Business, where he
teaches courses in Leadership, Financial Accounting, Business Planning, and
Strategy.
He has served on the boards of directors of several nonprofit
organizations including the Howard Brown Health Center; Seniors Action
Services; Housing Options for the Mentally Ill, the John Howard Association,
and the National Association of Social Workers’ Illinois Chapter (and Chicago
District Chair). He has also served as a grant reviewer for the American Cancer
Society (Illinois Division) Cancer Disparities Research Grants and Cancer
Control and Population Sciences grants as well as for the Federal agency the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. He presents
frequently to both professional and lay audiences on a wide range of topics
related to both clinical and administrative matters. He has a master's degree
from Simmons College School of Social Work in Boston, a master's degree in
business management from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, and a
doctoral degree in clinical social work from the Institute for Clinical Social
Work in Chicago.