Loren Renz
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Position: Vice President for Research
Organization: The Foundation Center
Location: New York, NY
Loren Renz is a member of the Forms 990-PF Advisory Committee.
Loren Renz serves as vice president for research at the Foundation Center, where she started the research program in 1987 after managing the Foundation Directory and other major reference publications. Current responsibilities include analyzing foundation growth and giving patterns, promoting research using the Center's databases, and producing benchmark studies on philanthropy. Ms. Renz is the creator of the annual series, Foundations Today. Recent publications include Foundation Funding for the Humanities, International Grantmaking III, Giving in the Aftermath of 9/11: Final Update on the Foundation and Corporate Response, and Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates: 2004 Preview. Since 2004, she has also directed the Foundation Center’s efforts on a multi-organization study of foundation administrative expenses. Ms. Renz serves on the Council on Foundation's Research Committee, Giving USA’s Advisory Council on Methodology, INDEPENDENT SECTOR’s Research Committee, and the Advisory Board of the Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy. She is currently secretary and a board member of ARNOVA, a national nonprofit research membership organization. Ms. Renz holds undergraduate degrees from Georgetown University’s Institute of Languages and Linguistics and the University of Grenoble (France) and an M.A. in French literature and linguistics from Hunter College, Department of Languages.