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Chauncy Lennon is program officer, with the Ford Foundation. This post can also be found on the Impatient Optimists blog.
Endowments Sessions
hese sessions will showcase how foundations have developed advanced portfolio management strategies to achieve the greatest possible returns. Discussions will include a review of the opportunities and challenges offered by alternative investments such as hedge funds and private…
Governance Sessions
These sessions will provide a review of critical governance issues that foundations must consider to remain in compliance with prevailing and emerging laws and regulations. There will be a strong focus on fiduciary responsibility as it relates to duties of care, loyalty, and…
With one-third of Americans still lacking broadband Internet connections at home, access to the internet is often considered an equity issue. Yet programs aimed at narrowing the digital divide may leave their strongest legacies in the areas of community and economic development. Online access…
I recently had the opportunity to connect with several young nonprofit professionals at a lunch meeting. After learning about issues several were facing that ended up complicating work with grantees, I immediately suggested several free technology tools that could streamline their current work.…
Join Mission Investors Exchange and the Council on Foundations for a one-hour webinar discussing the implications of the new U.S. Department of Treasury guidance on mission-related investments.
If you have questions about the legal implications of this guidance on your foundation,…
This week, the Treasury Department released long-awaited guidance on mission-related investments (MRIs), which the Council requested this year in our 2015-16 Treasury Priority Guidance Plan comments. The Council, along with the Council of Michigan Foundations and Mission Investors Exchange,…
Nakisha Lewis is project manager at the Schott Foundation for Public Education
A Note for Community Foundations
The IRS guidance in question refers to section 4944 of the Internal Revenue Code, which regulates jeopardizing investments made by private foundations. The section—and therefore the guidance—only pertains to private foundations. However there is no…