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Susan Crites Price is the author of The Giving Family: Raising Our Children To Help Others (Council on Foundations, 2001, rev. ed. 2003) and other books and articles about philanthropy and of interest to parents. Her history of the Hill-Snowdon Foundation, Values to Vision to Action, was published in 2009.

She has written for such publications as Working Mother, Family Life, The Washington Post and Washingtonian, and for several Internet sites.

With her husband Tom, she co-authored The Working Parents Help Book (Peterson’s, 1994, rev. ed., 1996), a practical guide to juggling kids and careers. It won a Parents’ Choice Award and was a selection of the Scholastic Book Club. She also co-authored, with Miriam Bachar Settle, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Child Safety (Macmillan, 2000), and, with Tom, Washington, D.C., Free and Dirt Cheap (Wiley Publishing 2010), and the Irreverent Guide to Washington, D.C. (Wiley 2005 and 2007).

       For two years, she and Tom wrote the weekly “Working Parents Lifeline” column, which was distributed by the New York Times Service and published by more than 60 newspapers. The Prices’ weekly “Working Solutions” column has been carried by the Family Planet and Disney’s Family.com Web sites.

       Susan has been interviewed about parenting issues on “Oprah,” “Today,” “Parents Journal” and numerous other television and radio broadcasts and by many newspapers and magazines. She has spoken about children, families and philanthropy to numerous philanthropic organizations around the world. She has been featured in articles about philanthropy in such publications as Working Mother, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Chronicle of Philanthropy.

       Susan’s freelance-writing clients have included Georgetown University, George Washington University, Macmillan Publishing, American University, Loyola College, Sylvan Learning Centers, National SAFE KIDS Campaign, Holman Communications/Women Trend, The Leigh Bureau, the Family Education Network,  Prentice-Hall, Serif Press and BSMG Marketing Communications.

       In 2003, Susan joined the staff of the Council on Foundations, and in 2007 she became vice president of the National Center for Family Philanthropy. In mid 2011, she returned to fulltime freelance writing.

       Prior to freelancing, Susan worked in the corporate communications and government affairs departments of the Mead Corp., where her responsibilities included writing and editing publications for the Fortune 500 company. Her writing career also includes two years of daily newspaper reporting and five as assistant director of public relations for a large state university.

       Susan earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s in international affairs at Ohio University.

      

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