Rodney Christopher Named First-time F.B. Heron Foundation Fellow
Rodney Christopher, vice president of advisory services for Nonprofit Finance Fund, and presenter for a GIA Web Conference in April 2011, will become the F.B. Heron Foundation’s first practice innovation fellow, starting March 4, 2013 for the period of one year. The F.B. Heron fellowship in Social Investment Practice is intended to allow highly talented senior practitioners from leading social sector organizations to explore and advance innovative ideas for new areas of investment in their sector. Visiting fellows work with F. B. Heron, their home institutions and allied parties to advance field-wide innovation.
The F.B. Heron Foundation was created in 1992 with the mission of helping people and communities to help themselves out of poverty. The new fellowship comes amid F.B. Heron’s change in strategy, one intended to deploy all the resources at its disposal in a broad, multi-sector approach that seeks opportunities to influence and be influenced through co-investment, advocacy and example. F.B Heron targeted Nonprofit Finance Fund, and specifically Rodney Christopher, for its first fellowship because of NFF’s distinctive track record for delivering high-impact financing in the nonprofit world. NFF unlocks the potential of mission-driven organizations and their supporters nationwide through tailored investments, strategic advice and bold ideas.