Writers

Clara Miller

Clara Miller lectures, writes, and advises clients on social sector finance. She is president emerita of the Heron Foundation, which she led from 2011 to 2017, and advises, writes, and speaks on investing and enterprise finance. Prior to that, Miller founded and was CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund from 1984 to 2011. Miller is an advisory board member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, the Song Cave, the Impact Management Project and Open Road Alliance. She is a corporator of Walden Mutual Bank and a member of the investment committee of Upstart CoLab. Miller, as a Clinton appointee, chaired the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s first Community Development Advisory Board and served on the Community Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She was a board member and chair of Opportunity Finance Network, a member of the inaugural nonprofit advisory committee at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and an early board member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).