User:Harvey P. Dale

Harvey P. Dale is University Professor of Philanthropy and the Law and the Director of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law at NYU. He has been a member of the faculty of the New York University School of Law since 1977, for the last 30 years teaching primarily in the field of nonprofit organizations. Professor Dale is Founding President of The Atlantic Philanthropies and was for approximately 20 years (until September 1, 2001) the President and CEO of the Atlantic Foundation. He served as a Director of the Atlantic Philanthropies from 1982 to 2012. Prof. Dale also was a member of the Trustees Investment Committee of Cornell University from 1996 to 2005. In 2007, he was named a Presidential Councillor by the Cornell University Board of Trustees. He was, from 2001 to 2007, a member of the Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Law School. He serves as a Director, Trustee, President, or Chair of various charitable organizations both in the U.S. and abroad. He served as an Adviser to the American Law Institute’s project on “Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations (2021).” He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prof. Dale received his B.A. degree from Cornell University, his J.D. degree from Harvard University, and a degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa from the University of the Witwatersrand.