The Consulting Network

The Consulting Network
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Lori A. Vacek

Areas of Expertise

Management, planning, design and assessment of domestic and international corporate grantmaking and community involvement programs.

Recent Assignments

Supporting the creation of a corporate foundation for a private company and designing a community involvement strategy.
Managing foundation and corporate international giving budgets and staff/consultant relationships.
Analyzing grant proposals and preparing grant recommendations for senior managers and board members.
Identifying and preparing grantmaking tools and resources for domestic and international program staff.
Researching and evaluating and reporting on global giving initiatives.
Evaluating corporate citizenship professional needs for national and regional membership organizations.
Identifying the need for and designing a community assessment model for corporate managers to help them respond to issues as they expand in local communities.
Benchmarking best-in-class corporate citizenship models.

Background

More than 15 years total experience working with corporate grantmakers on domestic and international programs.
Five years as consultant in corporate citizenship with The Consulting Network.
Three years as director of corporate services at the Council on Foundations, Washington, D.C.
Four years as a program officer for Wells Fargo Bank Foundation.
Author of publications on international grantmaking, strategic planning and measuring corporate giving.
Graduate of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, earning a master’s degree in public policy analysis at Claremont Graduate School and a MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkley. Coro Foundation Fellowship in Public Affairs.

Corporate Citizenship is good for business.