Nonprofit Business Model
Foundation Funded Nonprofits
Meet Our Panelists
Hilda Polanco
Managing Partner, BDO
Hilda Polanco founded Fiscal Management Associates in 1999, which became BDO FMA in 2021. BDO FMA has one of the largest client bases of nonprofits in the country, spanning all types and sizes of organizations. Despite the depth and breadth of all that, Hilda somehow always has her fingers on the pulses of those organizations. She delivers training to the staff of nonprofits and supports grantmaker strategies to encourage financial resilience in their grantees. Hilda has been published widely on various topics in nonprofit fiscal management and leads FMA’s nationwide staff in partnerships that build a community around fiscal management best practices.
Maple Walker Lloyd
Director of Development and Community Engagement, Block Club Chicago
Maple came to Block Club Chicago from the MacArthur Foundation, where she was team coordinator for its Journalism & Media program. Maple is also a former weekend news anchor for WGN Radio.
She now works with subscribers, foundations, individual donors and corporations to expand Block Club’s support base.
Emily Roseman
Research Director, Institute for Nonprofit News
Emily Roseman is the Research Director for the Institute for Nonprofit News, a network of over 425 nonprofit news organizations. At INN Emily leads the INN Index, an annual study of INN members and the most comprehensive source of data about the emerging nonprofit news field. Previously, she served as research project manager for a study at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center that analyzed how newsrooms can engage, grow and monetize audiences. She has researched and written for several media related studies and projects including NYU’s Membership Puzzle Project, the GNI-INN Sponsorship Lab, the Solution Journalism Network, and Harvard’s Belfer Center. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Bates College.