Peter Rose

As Isles’ Managing Director since 2006, Peter Rose oversees a range of family self-sufficiency and health services, including Isles’ Center for Energy and Environmental Training, Isles Financial Solutions, housing and homeownership counseling, and residential lead hazard control. Under Peter’s leadership, Isles created or expanded services to improve financial capability for low wage workers, lead-safe rehabilitation, and environmental training. His creativity and leadership skills were honed in Seattle, where he founded Ventures, an award-winning nonprofit that provided business training and lending for low income women and people with disabilities. Previously, Peter was the Managing Director of RESULTS, an organizing agency for the Microcredit Summit, which sought to bring microcredit to 100 million of the world’s poorest families by 2005. Peter earned a B.A. from Evergreen State College.