CTB Development Partner Bio


Phil Rabinowitz

Phil Rabinowitz

Consultant in Adult Education and Nonprofit Development
prabinow@tiac.net








Background and Professional Interests:


Phil Rabinowitz spent 25 years as an adult educator, first as a community college counselor and teacher, and then as the co-founder and Executive Director of The Literacy Project, a community-based, multi-site adult literacy and empowerment program covering nearly a thousand square miles of western Massachusetts. He is currently a consultant in adult education and nonprofit development, and the principal writer for The Community Tool Box. CTB is a free, web-based community development manual. Its more than 6,000 pages of information on health and community development and organizing are added to and updated continually.

Rabinowitz holds A.B. (cum laude) and MAT degrees from Harvard, and an Ed.D. in counseling and cognitive-developmental psychology from Boston University. He lives in Royalston, a rural community in north central Massachusetts, where he serves on the town Finance Committee and as chair of the Capital Planning Committee. He also serves as facilitator for the Steering Committee of Hands Across North Quabbin, a community network dedicated to fostering and maintaining a collaborative civic culture in the nine-town North Quabbin region.

Phil is married, with two grown sons. He indulges his passion for music of all kinds by singing classical music in a community chorus, and constituting one-third (lead vocals and guitar) of Work In Progress, a group that performs old-timey, bluegrass, blues, standards, Celtic, and traditional and modern folk music. He also enjoys the outdoors, and regularly hikes, bicycles, and cross-country skis on the roads and trails surrounding his home.