1647 Results for “community”

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Principles of best practice for grantees (Independent Sector)
October 10, 2014 | Independent Sector
There are many established standards or Principles of Best Practice relative to nonprofit organizations’ accountability, ethical practices, governance, finance, programming and public disclosure.  On the Independent Sector’s website, you will find a comprehensive compilation of standards of best practices developed for nonprofits, the Compendium of Standards, Codes, and Principles of Nonprofit and Philanthropic Organizations.  After a review of many of Read More
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Are There Any Easy, Less Labor- Intensive Options for Dipping Your Toes in the Water with Mission Investing?
October 9, 2014 | Tony Wells
Are there any less labor-intensive options for dipping your toes in the water of mission investing? Utilizing the services that Mission Investors Exchange offers is a great option for dipping your toes in the water. At the Wells Foundation, even though we’ve been doing this for some time, it’s been an incredible relationship with MIE and a tremendous value for Read More
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How Can I Help My Board Members Understand the Long- Term Nature of Impact Investing?
October 9, 2014 | Tomer Inbar, Tony Wells
Tomer Inbar: To start with a short anecdote, a client of mine and I were talking about their first program-related investment (PRI) that was going to go under. Although they had a successful program-related investment portfolio, she had to go to the investment committee where her PRIs were managed and tell them that they believed that this company was going Read More

Jean Whitney
June 6, 2014
Jean Whitney, Principal, has more than 30 years of experience in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector.  Her work with families, individuals and foundations has broadly focused on helping them to implement best practices in charitable giving.  This has included a range of services, from providing advice on grant making basics, strategy, governance and succession to researching nonprofit organizations and performing Read More

Sylvia Yee
May 14, 2014
Sylvia Mei-ling Yee is Vice President of Programs at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, a family foundation in San Francisco that makes $30 million in grants annually. She played a key role in the selection and development of the Fund’s education equity, nonprofit leadership, gay and lesbian and immigrant rights programs. A community leader committed to social change, Read More

Kristy Teskey
May 14, 2014
Kristy Teskey is Executive Director of the John M. Belk Endowment and a strong education champion. Over the past 22 years she has worked on vital issues across the education and workforce development continuum, ranging from early childhood development to postsecondary access and completion, with a concentration on community colleges and first- generation students. Kristy joined the Endowment in August Read More

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