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NCHF Adopts National Standards

Newton Community & Healthcare Foundation has made a formal commitment to adopt national standards recently established for community foundations.

The standards were developed in late 2000 by the Leadership Team of the Council on Foundations and representatives of community foundations from throughout the country.

"The standards are a road map in establishing the highest levels of legal, ethical and operational integrity," explained Loren Friesen, CSPG, executive director of NCHF. "In adopting these standards, we are communicating to the public our commitment to accountability, excellence and service."

Such standards provide a consistent set of expectations that can save time by focusing board and staff energies on appropriate priorities, Friesen added, and allow community foundation practices to be systematically documented and communicated.

"We are joining a growing nationwide movement to adopt the standards," he said, "and thus strengthen the effectiveness of community foundations."