Claire Knowlton
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Claire Knowlton is the founder and principal consultant at Claire Knowlton Consulting, LLC, where she provides financial consulting to nonprofits and foundations. Her work focuses on helping her clients align their financial strategy to their organizational values. She previously served as Director of Advisory Services for Nonprofit Finance Fund where she helped lead a national practice of 43 consultants and provided consulting services to hundreds of nonprofits and funders. While there, she designed and led a range of initiatives, including change capital projects for equity-centered arts organizations; long-term efforts to improve government contracting with nonprofits; and the Full Cost Project.
She has worked in the nonprofit sector since 2005 in multiple roles, including as the Executive Director of a community-based art center, as an auditor and tax-preparer, and as co-founder and board chair for a nonprofit working to end extreme global poverty.
Claire has authored numerous thought pieces for the field, including:
- Why Funding Overhead is Not the Real Issue: The Case to Cover Full Costs
- The Smartest Way to Promote Diversity: Pay for Overhead at Charities Led by People of Color
- Why Grantmakers Need to Break Their Restriction Habit—Permanently