Clara Miller is president of the F. B. Heron Foundation, which helps people and communities help themselves out of poverty. From 1984 to 2010, she was president and CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, which she founded. Miller was a presidential appointee to the US Treasury’s first Community Development Advisory Board in 1996 and became chair in 2006. She chaired the Opportunity Finance Network and was on the first nonprofit advisory committee of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Miller is a board member of Heron, Family Independence Initiative, the Alliance for Impact Investing, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, and StoneCastle Financial, and serves on Kresge Foundation’s Social Investment Committee.