For Immediate Release:
Pam Hagen
El Dorado Community Foundation
530-622-5621
El Dorado Community Foundation Receives
National Recognition
The El Dorado Community Foundation Executive Director, Staff and Board of Directors
are proud to announce their recent national recognition and five-year accreditation from
the Council on Foundation’s National Standards Board. The Council on Foundations
is formed of approximately 1,600 independent operating, community, public and
company-sponsored foundations and corporate giving programs in the United
States and abroad. It is a national organization that exists to expand, enhance,
and sustain the work of the philanthropic field and to ensure that policymakers
understand the important role they play in advancing society.
National Standards accreditation represents excellence in community
philanthropy to those who acquire that recognition of operational excellence. The
Council believes that with their standards met, community foundations can
innovate and take risks necessary to solve complex problems.
In a recent letter from the National Standards Board, the El Dorado Community
Foundation was awarded the COF Standards because “it has met with the highest
philanthropic standards for operational quality, integrity and accountability”. The letter
further states, “National Standards accreditation is a commitment to transparency,
excellence, stewardship and leadership. The ultimate rewards of accreditation and the
subsequent reconfirmation are the credibility it brings to community foundations and the
confidence it gives donors, professional advisors and others who seek a qualified,
trustworthy philanthropic partner.”
Bill Roby, Executive Director at the El Dorado Community Foundation stated that
“Achieving this high level of recognition is an arduous, complicated process that is often
only tackled by large metropolitan foundations. For our small staff to choose to tackle it,
and conquer it, is both humbling and exhilarating.”
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Because part of these standards includes their work with county, city and state
governmental agencies as well as nonprofit organizations, Mr. Roby added, “The
Foundation would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have partnered
with us, including our generous donors, for the opportunities they have afforded us over
the years as, together, we continue to build a strong, cohesive, productive community.”
The El Dorado Community Foundation is a designated 501(c) (3) nonprofit
organization serving its donors for the benefit of the residents of El Dorado
County since 1991. For more information about the work they do, you are invited
to visit their website at www.eldoradocf.org or call them at 530-622-5621.
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