Peter W. Barnes Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

If you are interested in helping military families in New England and beyond, please consider supporting Blue Star Families, a military non-profit that is opening a New England chapter in Boston, https://bluestarfam.org (I am a member of its advisory board). BSF helps families that are redeployed settle in their new communities with special welcome events, job resources for spouses, counseling and other important services.BSF’s research finds that only 30% of redeployed military families feel welcome in their new communities--a statistic I found shocking. This threatens military recruitment, reenlistment and the all-volunteer military, and thus makes it a national security issue. Deployments often involve spouses, children or significant others, and if they aren't happy, keeping the active duty spouse from leaving his or her service becomes much harder. This situation also hurts the economy, as many military members get important job training during their service, such as computer programming and logistics, that helps companies hire well-trained workers when enlisted members leave military service—if they don’t stay in the military, they don’t get this important experience. BSF also does important work on food insecurity and race relations in the military. In 2022, philanthropist Mackenzie Scott awarded Blue Star Families a $10 million donation, unsolicited. We are working now to find local donors to help stand up the new New England chapter, which needs seed capital of about $1 million over three years, or about $300,000 a year to scale up. I know there are a lot of military nonprofits and that you get a lot of requests, but this organization is doing something unique from other military support nonprofits: helping to make sure redeployed families are welcomed in their new communities and to support military spouses. If this is a good fit with your charitable giving, we would like the opportunity to brief you further on BSF’s activities. Thank you.

Greater Boston Area

Since 1992, publishing, project management & consulting company for niche children’s books about Very Special People & Very Special Places. Multiple projects underway, including 2nd edition of best-selling "Nat, Nat, the Nantucket Cat" & latest in "Freddy the Frogcaster" series by Janice Dean, "The Weather Machine," on Fox News for Regnery Kids. Publishing/project management• Published 20+ titles, 4 national bestsellers, 2 NY Times bestsellers• Sold 40K to 50K books annually for 9 years• Won 9 book awards for quality, including from National Council for Social Studies, Capital Book Festival & National Arbor Day Foundation• Created and produced special projects for Kennedy Center, Verizon Communications, Crayola Crayons, Abundant Forest Alliance & 9/11 families• Wrote, produced of 50,000 copies of philanthropist's biography in 2004 as marketing, education, public relations tool for his foundation, produced 25K copies of revised edition in 2013

Greater Boston Area

Co-anchor of "Politics, Policy, and Power," broadcast nationally weekdays at 12-2 ET, and of "Bloomberg Baystate Business" in Boston, 4-6 PM ET, on Bloomberg FM 106.1/AM 1330.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Key member of start-up & reporting team that developed content that increased network subscriptions to 90M cable/satellite television homes nationwide. Reported on business, economic, financial regulation, politics & policymaking from nation’s capital. Coordinated coverage, collaborated on reports with network management and production teams. Trained and mentored junior colleagues. Provided reports for FoxBusiness.com and for sister networks, Fox News and Sky News. Newsgathering/Communications Strategy• Contributed to doubling (2X) of viewership after strategic repositioning (2015), when leveraged key news source relationships − Landed sought-after newsmaker interviews with key Democratic & Republican policymakers, including cabinet officials, Congressional leadership, agency heads, private-sector leaders• Kept newsgathering costs on budget by increasing productivity to handle > 5 reports daily across platforms (video, digital), consistently matching or beating competition on content

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Nonprofit distributing 50,000+ wheelchairs per year to physically-disabled people globally.Executive Director for D.C. Managed $5M annual appropriation process in U.S. Congress, which provided half of budget. Spearheaded relationships, contacts with key policymakers in legislative, executive branches & stakeholder groups through outreach, education, higher visibility. Partnered with founder/headquarters team in CA.Fund & Program Development• Maintained full appropriation amid growing deficits− Educated policymakers on ability to respond to immediate humanitarian needs (wars, natural disasters) • Wrote, produced of 50,000 copies of book on founder & foundation’s work as marketing, education, public relations tool • Hosted event with founder to raise $1.8M in single fundraiser (2015), funding 10,000 new wheelchairs

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Produced syndicated reports and coverage for 33-station group, including flagship Boston station WCVB, to help keep newsgathering costs on budget. Directed $1.8M annual budget for bureau to manage staff of 12. Coordinated coverage with senior executives, station management and their teams.Bureau Management • Created & launched, on time & on budget, high-quality local morning news service with D.C. reports, doubling bureau output• Achieved zero budget increase with new service by reallocating bureau resources after hiring 3 new staff• Helped keep newsgathering costs low by personally generating daily news reports for stations

Washington D.C. Metro Area

$100M Vulcan Ventures startup in competitive video & digital technology news / information market, targeting tech consumers, investors, corporate executives in 43M cable/satellite television homes nationwide. Staff of 100. In Washington, drove $1M annual budget to report on technology business, economic, regulation and policymaking from nation’s capital. Managed 6 staff.Bureau Management • Created value with programming & cable subscriptions by leading entry of new tech news service in D.C. policy market during challenging environment of tech bubble/recession. Merged with G4 network (2004)• Produced 5+ reports per day across all platforms (video, digital), with some days exceeding 10 reports, helping to keep newsgathering costs low and on/under budget

Greater New York City Area

$12M Jagnotes.com startup, leading Internet provider of stock market news, to be first mover in streaming video for financial news and information. Targeted investors globally with desktop computers. Led staff of 30. Coordinated and created programming, coverage with team, executive management.• Wrote business plan to win $12M in VC funding firm, awarded 2.5% equity in venture• Produced 9 hours daily of live streaming news programming on budget, anchored 3 hours personally

Covered business, financial and economic policy. Contributed regularly to Today and MSNBC. In 1996 election, anchored Capitol Gains, weekday morning show on business, economics and politics. Anchored several network specials. Cable Ace Award winner.

Mba, Finance, Director'S Honor List, Fall 1984, Spring 1985

Activities and Societies: Intern, New York Times

Ba, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Editor-in-Chief, Daily Collegian; Intern, Wall Street Journal