John Huckstadt
Chairman and CEO of 501(c) Services
"If I hadn't had both nonprofit and corporate experience, I never would have seen either the problem or the solution. Today, our staff contains a healthy blend of experience from those two worlds. I think that makes us much better able to serve the organizations who are members of the Trust."
John Huckstadt is chairman and CEO of 501(c) Services, the Trust manager. From 1970–78, John was executive director of the United Cerebral Palsy Association, which serves the San Mateo and Santa Clara County area of Northern California. Like most nonprofit executives, John spent most of his time trying to stretch his organization's funds. One expenditure that he always thought was excessive was state unemployment taxes, especially with nonprofits' traditionally low unemployment claims rates.
John left United Cerebral Palsy to become an independent insurance broker, but he never forgot the problem of high unemployment insurance costs. In the early 1980s, he began developing innovative unemployment programs that have saved nonprofit organizations millions of dollars.