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  • Comment: Likely notable but tone is similar to a CV or LinkedIn profile, not a biography of a living person. Significant claims about her career, media, etc are unsupported by inline citations - notability requires significant coverage in reliable, independent, secondary sources (not PR/marketing/press releases, not news sourced from organisations to which she is affiliated). Biography should be presented in chronological order, ideally started with early life, education, etc Paul W (talk) 21:41, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: A likely notable subject, but several paragraphs are entirely unsourced. Please rectify that. Kind regards, Spinster300 (talk) 18:49, 7 October 2023 (UTC).
  • Comment: A likely notable subject, but several paragraphs are entirely unsourced. Please rectify that. Kind regards, Spinster300 (talk) 18:49, 7 October 2023 (UTC).
Clara Miller
Clara Miller, Forward Facing
Clara Miller
Born1949 (age 74–75)
Hanover, New Hampshire
Alma materUniversity of New Hampshire, Cornell University, Columbia University

Clara Miller (born 1949 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is an American entrepreneur, innovator and executive in social sector finance. She was Founder and President/CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund (1984-2011),[1][2] and President of the F.B. Heron Foundation (2011-2018).[3]

Early Life and Education

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Clara Miller (née Clara Gellerman) was born in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1949 to Josef E. and Ellen M. Gellerman (née Meservey). Her father was a professor of economics and business law at various universities. Her uncle was American physicist Robert Meservey.

She graduated from Hanover High School (New Hampshire) in 1967 and attended the University of New Hampshire from 1970 to 1972, graduating in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in Studio Art with a concentration in printmaking and sculpture.

Miller worked at the National Research Council and National Academy of Sciences in Washington as a Receptionist and Assistant for Special Projects from 1973-1974.

She attended Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning from 1974 to 1976, graduating in 1977 with a Masters in Regional Planning. Her thesis was "An Approach to Planning in the Small Town."

Career

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In 1996, Miller was a Bill Clinton appointee to the U.S. Treasury’s first Community Development Advisory Board for the then-newly-created Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.[4] She later became its chair.[citation needed] She chaired the Opportunity Finance Network board for six years during her nine-year tenure (1992-2001)[citation needed] and was a member of the Community Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2001 to 2007.[citation needed] She was a member of he inaugural Nonprofit Accounting Advisory Committee of the Financial Accounting Standards Board from 2010 to 2014.[citation needed] Miller’s work at the Heron Foundation was featured an a 2018 case study by Stanford Graduate School of Business, “The Heron Foundation: 100 Percent for Mission and Beyond.”[5]

Miller was awarded a Bellagio Residency by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2010.[citation needed] In 2015, she received the Prince’s Prize for Innovative Philanthropy, the “Shining Star” Award from NYC performance venue PS 122,[6] and was named Institutional Investor Magazine’s Investor of the Year.[7] She was named to the NonProfit Times's “Power and Influence Top 50” for seven years: 2006-2010, 2016 and 2017.[citation needed] She was also named to Inside Philanthropy’s “50 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy" in 2016 and 2017.[8] In 2017, she was honored as Social Innovator of the Year by the University of New Hampshire[9] and named the “Foundation President We’ll Miss Most” by Inside Philanthropy.[citation needed]

Miller is a corporator of Walden Mutual Bank and a member of the Sustainability Advisory Committee of the University of New Hampshire.[10] She is a board member of The Song Cave, a publication dedicated to literature and graphic art.[11] She is an investment committee member of UpStart Co-Lab (Impact Investing for the Creative Economy)[12] and an advisory board member of Open Road Alliance.[13] Miller was a board member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board[14] from 2014 to 2019, serving as chair of its Development Committee and a member of its Executive Committee.[citation needed]

Selected Publications

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Essays

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  • Miller, Clara (December 2008). "More from Nonprofits Now Means Less in Future". The Financial Times. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  • Miller, Clara (16 August 2017). "Capital, Equity and Looking at Nonprofits as Enterprises". The Nonprofit Quarterly. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  • Miller, Clara (29 March 2015). "Can Social-Impact Bonds Really Have Big Impact?". The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Retrieved 7 July 2023.

Interviews

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References

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  1. ^ "History of the Nonprofit Finance Fund". Nonprofit Finance Fund. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  2. ^ "The F.B. Heron Foundation Appoints Clara Miller". Nonprofit Quarterly. 25 January 2011. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  3. ^ "Clara Miller to Lead F.B. Heron Foundation". PR Newswire (Press release). Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  4. ^ "About Clara Miller". Nonprofit Quarterly. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  5. ^ "The Heron Foundation: 100 Percent for Mission and Beyond". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
  6. ^ "Performance Space New York Spring Gala 2014 Wrap Up". Performance Space 122. 19 May 2014. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
  7. ^ "2015 Investment Management Awards: Clara Miller". Institutional Investor Magazine. 4 May 2015. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
  8. ^ "Meet the 50 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy". Inside Philanthropy. 17 August 2017. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
  9. ^ ""Social Innovator of the Year"". University of New Hampshire. 18 August 2021. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
  10. ^ "NH Social Venture Innovation Challenge Judges". The University of New Hampshire. 10 November 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  11. ^ "About the Song Cave". The Song Cave. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  12. ^ "Projects at UpStart Co-Lab". UpStart Co-Lab. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  13. ^ "About Clara Miller". Nonprofit Quarterly. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  14. ^ "About Clara Miller". Nonprofit Quarterly. Retrieved February 19, 2024.


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