Organizational Accountability
To ask you to give your money, we must earn your trust, via operational accountability. We ensure objective, dispassionate people oversee our finances. We invest in socially responsible assets; your money doesn't mix with backhanded companies mired in regulatory problems, companies manufacturing biological or chemical or nuclear weapons, or those making hazardous waste and depleting the ozone. We don’t smile upon companies that slash their workforce and employee retirement plans, or are willfully violating employee health and safety standards. We don’t and we won’t. Here are some of the ways in which we have institutionalized that value:
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act primarily affects American publicly traded companies and regulates what boards must do to ensure auditors’ independence from their clients. For nonprofit organizations, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that each member of the organization's audit committee also be a member of the board of directors and be independent. While not all nonprofits conduct outside audits, most nonprofit boards should establish one or more financial committees (e.g., finance, audit, and/or investment). Comprised of board members, the Women's Foundation of California's Audit Committee and Finance Committee provide fiscal oversight of our auditing procedures and fiscal management. The Women's Foundation of California does not share email or mailing addresses with any other organization. On occasion, zero to four times per year, a grant partner or other allied nonprofit organization will request the use of our mailing list to send invitations to our list for certain events. We will only comply with such requests when we feel that these events are of particular interest to our mailing list or to segments of our mailing list. We require that the grant partners or other nonprofits send such invitations through our mailhouse. Our lists are never released to these organizations. Read the full Privacy Policy.
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