Episode 36 – Amplify Your Impact Through Strategic Philanthropy with Caren Yanis
When you’re strategic with your philanthropy and strive for efficiency within your organization, you can do more good with less money.
In this episode, Bob DiMeo and Devon Francis speak with Caren Yanis, principal at Croland Consulting, LLC, and a philanthropic advisor to families and businesses. Caren shares actionable insights and best practices for today’s nonprofits, family foundations, and endowments.
You will learn:
- Current opportunities and challenges for philanthropists and charitable organizations
- How to ensure strong governance, even when there are few rules to hold boards accountable
- How to align your organization’s philanthropic practices with your values
- Key points that every investment committee should keep in mind
- And more!
Tune in to learn how you can amplify your impact through strategic philanthropy!
Resources: Email the Stewards | Fiducient Advisors | Bob DiMeo | Devon Francis | 2022 Return Expectations Webinar | Caren Croland Yanis on LinkedIn | Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation | Poetry Foundation | Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) | Foundation Financial Officers Group (FFOG) | Episode 22 – Achieving Your Charitable Mission Through Private Foundat ions — With Adam Newell | Fiducient Capital Market Assumptions
About Our Guest:
Caren Croland Yanis is the principal of Croland Consulting, a philanthropic consulting firm focused on helping high-net-worth families give well. As executive director of the Oprah Winfrey Foundations in the 2000s, Ms. Yanis helped Ms. Winfrey build her public and private philanthropy and went on to become president of Crown Family Philanthropies in Chicago. She is a board member of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University, a member of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute, a member of the Illinois Attorney General’s Charitable Advisory Council, and a board member of Friends of the Children.
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