In addition to our in-house team of experts, we have developed partnerships with leaders in the insurance industry including:
 Gregory B. Bragg & Associates
 Gregory B. Bragg & Associates has been NPU's Third Party Adjuster for the Worker's Compensation Group since the inception of the pool in 2004 and the Vehicle Insurance Pool since July, 2008. They represent over 150 self-insureds and have provided services to over 250 insurance companies, risk retention groups, attorneys, brokers and managing general agencies.
They are listed in BEST's Directory of Recommended Insurance Adjusters and for the past several years have made the Sacramento Business Journal's list of "The top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in the Sacramento Area".
ABD Insurance & Financial Services
 ABD Insurance & Financial Services povides brokerage services for NPU and represents the pool in the re-insurance market. Since 1946, ABD has provided insurance brokerage, employee benefits consulting and riskmanagement solutions to clients across the United States and around the world.
Now the 14th largest U.S. retail broker and the nation's number one broker of D&O Liability insurance (Towers Perrin Survey), ABD has 17 major offices in strategic regional business centers across the western United States and annual revenues of approximately $165 million. ABD is a subsidiary of Greater Bay Bancorp (Nasdaq: GBBK), a financial services holding company.
PMG Risk
 PMG Risk, an independent consulting firm, provides risk and claims management consulting services to NonProfits United. The firm was formed in 1990. While the firm works with both private and public sector clients, it has specialized in serving self-insured organizations and risk pools.
The Firm’s principal is Michael Patterson. Mr. Patterson’s involvement with NPU began in the mid-1990s and has included work both as an independent consultant and, for a year and a half, serving on NPU’s staff as Chief Claims and Development officer. He also served as Assistant General Manager of the California Transit Insurance Pool and as statewide malpractice claims manager for the California Dental Association through Marsh & McLennan. He is the author of a best practices claims management study commissioned jointly by the State of California’s Risk Manager and the Public Risk Database Project. He was also the principal consultant in developing a loss causation tracking system applicable to all public sector organizations in the country.
Warner & Pank, LLC
 Our legislative advocates, Warner & Pank, LLC have taken up the cause of nonprofits with a fervor. They are monitoring legislation that affect not only the insurance industry but the entire nonprofit community in general, and they are helping us formulate a strategy to be pro-active for our membership.
Nick Warner, Managing Partner has partnered with Louie Brown, Attorney At Law, of the firm Kahn, Soares and Conway, LLP to assistant in our legislative efforts.
Kaku & Mersino, LLP
Peter Mersino, CPA, is a partner with the accounting firm of Kaku & Mersino, LLP, in Fresno, CA. They work with many nonprofit agencies to provide accounting and auditing services.
Special Mention
We would also like to mention those agencies, organizations and companies which have had a tremendous amount of influence in our success:
 California Association for Coordinated Transportation (CalACT) -- after a number of workshops and a member survey, the CalACT Board of Directors made the insurance crisis of the mid-80's a priority by forming and sponsoring the Steering Committee that created NPU. (See more about NPU's roots on the History page.)
Peter Steinert, Program Manager for the Department of Mass Transportation (Caltrans) submitted a proposal to the Federal Government (Urban Transportation Special Projects Program) resulting in a grant for $60,000 that funded the feasibility study that lighted the way for the pool's development.
Phil Buchannan, President of Curtis Day & Co., loaned us $50,000 for seed money and bought the Steering Committee a decent meal. Curtis Day was our first brokerage for excess coverage.
Paratransit, Inc. -- provided the Steering Committee with administrative services and loaned us a staff person, Katherine Adcock, who eventually became our first Executive Director. They are a founding member of both the VIP and the WCG.
Greg Trout, of Arm Tech -- provided us with our initial actuarial studies that set the foundation for our pool.
And all the other agencies and organizations that generously supported the formation of the pool including:
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