Patricia Moore Nicholas
Project Manager, International Peace and Security

Patricia Nicholas, project manager in Carnegie Corporation’s International Program, focuses on grant making in international peace and security. She developed and implemented the Corporation's goals and grantmaking on biological weapons nonproliferation, including a partnership of grantees and funding organizations that produced scientifically competent experts versed in policy formation regarding biosecurity. Currently, Ms. Nicholas is working on global engagement issues, remains involved in the Corporation’s nuclear weapons grantmaking and can call on years of experience with those in the nonproliferation field.

Ms. Nicholas has longstanding familiarity and interest in the nonprofit sector. She served as chair of the Peace and Security Funders Group, an international affinity association of foundations, charitable trusts and philanthropists who fund in the field. She also represents the Corporation to the "Peace and Security Initiative,” a multi-foundation funded project to define a strategic agenda for the nonproliferation community; and is a regular contributor to the group, Women in International Security. Locally, she sits on the Committee of Members and Directors of the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers and has worked as a consultant for the New York-based Center for Nonprofit Success. Ms. Nicholas’s early experience in the nonprofit arena was in the arts.

Ms. Nicholas recently earned a Nonprofit Management Certificate from Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership. She holds a Masters in Public Administration from Marist College and an undergraduate degree in English and Performance from the College at Lincoln Center, Fordham University.

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