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Join leaders of private foundations and endowed non-profits for CNJG’s 3rd biennial Investment Forum for Foundations and Endowments at The Palace at Somerset Park. You’ll gain rare access to leading asset managers, financial service institutions, professional advisors and practitioners…
Do you need guidance to help determine what records you should be retaining, for how long, and for what reason? Records, in both paper and electronic form, serve as the corporate memory of an organization; they document, support, and guide daily operations. These materials also form the basis for…
Should grantmakers evaluate and continually improve the practices they use to make grants? At PEAK Grantmaking, we believe they should! The “how” of grantmaking is essential to growing impact, increasing transparency, and getting the best possible return on philanthropic investments.…
Steven C. Snyder is the Managing Director and Head of Relationship Management at CommonFund.
Earlier this month, a group of corporate citizenship leaders representing a range of industries assembled in New York to answer this question: What must we do to transform the corporate philanthropy and corporate citizenship fields?
The context of the question comes at a time when business’…
by Carol Thompson Cole
In this day of 24-7 media, information flows nonstop and infinite reams of data can be crunched in seconds. Yet I am sometimes shocked by how very little we know, even about what’s going on in our own neighborhoods. Information is power, and while research and data…
Editor's note: This post is one in a series highlighting sessions for the upcoming Endowments and Finance Summit, held in Washington, DC, on September 6-7. The Summit is where foundation leaders – such as CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, Senior Investment Officers and board and investment committee…
In response to numerous articles in which some media outlets have mischaracterized the intent and impact of donor advised funds, the Council on Foundations released the following joint statement from interim president and CEO Gene Cochrane and Javier Alberto Soto, chair of the Council’s board…
Editor's Note: As a part of our Inclusive Economic Prosperity in the Midwest convening, we're highlighting stories from the region. This article was originally published in bMag, a publication by the Bush Foundation.
Pakou Hang (BF’11) and her six siblings spent much of their…