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Corporate Partners and Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the support of programs and services for small foundations provided by our corporate partners and sponsors.

Become a sponsor!

For more information, contact Bill Belding, Director of Corporate Programs at 202-580-6560 or email him.

Premier Corporate Partners

USI-Affinity (formerly Bertholon-Rowland), Directors and Officers Liability Insurance. ASF proudly recommends USI Affinity's Directors and Officers Liability Insurance Plan to members. Follow this link to learn how members in nearly every state can receive $1 million in coverage starting at just $750 per year. Take advantage of competitive rates negotiated exclusively for ASF members and policy provisions designed to meet the needs of small foundations.

Graystone Consulting, a business of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.  Graystone Consulting continues a long history of providing customized investment advice to foundations, endowments and sophisticated families.  Our consulting process is designed to meet the high standards required for those acting in a fiduciary capacity.   At the core of our services is a disciplined investment process—one that begins and ends with our clients.  We help define investment objectives, develop prudent spending and investment policy statements, create asset allocation strategies, select the managers to implement those strategies and monitor performance and fiduciary decisions over time.  Call 1-800-215-9639 to request more information on how Graystone Consulting can help you, your foundation and your family meet your financial objectives.

Corporate Sponsors

Benchmark Asset Managers LLC
Benchmark Asset Managers is an investment management company focused on sustainable investing. Competitive returns are achieved through rigorous financial analysis, social research, and risk management. Its experienced team of professionals are leaders in the field, and have deeply rooted experience within the sustainability community and socially responsible investing.

Commonfund
Commonfund enhances the financial resources of nonprofit institutions and helps them to improve investment management practices. As the largest nonprofit investment manager, Commonfund offers thoughtfully constructed, high quality programs and services at competitive costs.

Community Capital Management
Community Capital Management is an institutional investment adviser that specializes in the management of portfolios containing government-related bonds issued to promote community development. For foundations seeking to align investment assets with their organizational missions (i.e., "Mission-Related Investing"), the firm offers a set of optional screens designed to proactively identify market-rate securities that support a variety of social and environmental objectives. The portfolio management team members share a belief that their unique approach to fixed income management may produce risk-adjusted returns that meet or exceed those generated by mainstream bond managers and indices.

Common Grant Application
The Common Grant Application is a Web-based grant management solution that grantmakers can use to receive, track and mange grant applications and reports.

Foundant Technologies
Foundant Technologies allows small foundations to easily accept and evaluate applications, record decisions, and measure outcomes using the industry's most affordable online solution - Grant Lifecycle Manager.

Glenmede
Glenmede is an independent investment and wealth management firm—privately owned for over half a century. And, we intend to stay that way. That commitment is supported by the strength of our advice and our strength and stability as an organization.  We’re free to singularly focus on what we do best—personally deliver consistent, thoughtful advice—in good markets and bad, year after year, generation to generation. With
over $17 billion under management, individuals, families, consultants and institutional plans benefit from the intellectual rigor that allows us to develop sophisticated strategies and enduring solutions.

Lazard Asset Management LLC
With origins dating back to 1848, Lazard is one of the world's preeminent financial advisory (mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring) and asset management firms. Lazard Asset Management LLC (LAM), an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Lazard Ltd (NYSE: LAZ), offers a range of equity, fixed-income, and alternative investment strategies and solutions to clients worldwide, including institutions (from sovereign wealth funds, to public/private pension plans, to endowments & foundations) and high-net-worth individuals.

ShoreBank
ShoreBank is America's first and leading community development and environmental bank holding company, committed to building vibrant communities by providing financial services and information to create economic equity and a healthy environment.

SunTrust
Whether you need strategic guidance on policy and governance structures, are seeking best practices for managing your assets, grants and operations, or are looking for ways to make the most of limited staff, we offer a complete array of solutions to assist you in successfully achieving your mission. Our specialty practice is staffed with experienced professionals who have strong backgrounds in serving foundations, and bring an extensive understanding of the specific issues you face.

Syntrinsic

Syntrinsic Investment Counsel LLC provides independent investment advice and strategic guidance to select foundations and endowments, faith-based institutions, and philanthropic families.