April 19 Estate Planning Council Meeting 

Our speaker is
Mark D. Constantine
President and CEO of Richmond Memorial Health Foundation

The topic
The Evolution and Trends in the
Fast Growing and Fast Changing Field of Impact Investing

Prior to joining RMHF, he served as senior vice president at the Jessie Ball duPont Fund in Jacksonville, Florida, where he directed the Program-Related Investment and affordable housing activities of the Fund. 

Mr. Constantine served for more than a decade as a consultant to foundations and national nonprofit organizations on issues related to governance, strategy, and learning. His clients included CFED, Demos, Duke Divinity School, First Nations Development Institute, Ford Foundation, Foundation for the Mid South, Lilly Endowment, Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Southern Education Foundation. In addition, he served as the assistant executive director of the Kathleen Price Bryan Family Fund.

Mr. Constantine has authored two books, Wit and Wisdom: Unleashing the Philanthropic Imagination (2009) and Travelers on the Journey: Pastors Talk about Their Lives and Commitments (2005), as well as the award-winning monograph, “Where Hope and History Rhyme: Reflections and Findings from the MidSouth Commission to Build Philanthropy (2005).” Wit and Wisdom was selected by the 2009 Philanthropy Annual Review as one of the two “notable titles” in the Social Justice Philanthropy category.

Mr. Constantine has served on the local advisory board for LISC Jacksonville, the Knowledge Sharing Committee of Mission Investors Exchange, and the Technical Working Group for the Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse. He has been a judge for the national Social Impact Exchange Awards and Chair of the Program Committee for the Southeastern Council of Foundations (SECF) 2012 Annual Conference. He served as Chair of the 2013 Leadership Team for the SECF Hull Fellows Leadership Program.

Mr. Constantine holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Fuqua School of Business (Duke University) and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Duke Divinity School. He was a 2006/2007 Fellow of the Emerging Leaders Program directed by the Centres for Leadership at Public Values at the University of Cape Town and Duke University.

GUESTS and EMERITUS
     The guest fee is $90. Guests must be registered in advance by a member. Guests who are members in good standing at another region's Estate Planning Council must register, but are not required to be sponsored by a member. Emeritus members must be registered and the Emeritus fee is $85 unless already paid for the year.
      Checks should be made payable to the Estate Planning Council of Richmond and are due either at the meeting or prior to the meeting.
      Should your plans or guests change, contact the Council Secretary no later than 5:00 PM Wednesday, April 13, 2016.