Graceful Exits: How Foundations Can Offer Strong Support As Grants End
Thursday, November 4 | 2:00 - 3:15 PM ET
What happens to nonprofits when grant makers stop supporting them? How can foundation leaders guide grantees and make these transitions as smooth as possible? What can nonprofit leaders do to prepare for the loss of support?
Join us for Graceful Exits: How Foundations Can Offer Strong Support As Grants End, tomorrow at 2 PM ET. You’ll get helpful insights and advice from the board president and the executive director of The Nicholson Foundation, which is on track to wrap up all grants and close its doors by December 2021.
Grant makers will learn how to ensure grantees and partner organizations can continue their vital work. Nonprofit leaders will gain insights into how Nicholson guided grant recipients toward financial strength and sustainability as its closing approached. Plus, you’ll get a chance to ask these grant makers your questions. Register todayand join us live or watch the recording whenever you like.
Meet the Speakers
Kim Boller
The Nicholson Foundation
Kim Boller took the helm of The Nicholson Foundation in September 2021 to help it conclude operations by the end of the year. Previously, she was chief strategy and evaluation officer, responsible for overseeing Nicholson’s early childhood and health grant making, providing strategic direction, and leading the foundation’s evaluation and learning agendas. Boller is a cognitive and developmental psychologist with more than 20 years of experience conducting policy and program evaluations for government and foundations.
Jan Nicholson is president of The Nicholson Foundation, which is on track to conclude its grants and close its doors by December 2021. She is also president of The Grable Foundation, a grant maker focused on improving education for children and youth in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Nicholson spent her career in finance, primarily at Citicorp, and was a director at three public companies. She serves on the board of the Public Media Company, which works with public radio and TV stations nationwide to achieve greater community impact, and was a trustee for MDRC, a social policy research group, for 18 years.
