Local News Matters: Helping journalism thrive in South Carolina

The S.C. Press Association serves to strengthen the Palmetto State’s newspaper industry, enhance public understanding of the role of newspapers, and protect basic freedoms of press, speech and the free flow of information. We proudly represent South Carolina’s newspapers and online news publications.

Jen Madden is Co-Executive Director and Chief Program Officer for the South Carolina Press Association, South Carolina Press Association Foundation and the South Carolina Newspaper Network, where she has worked for 19 years. Jen is a 2005 graduate of the University of South Carolina, where she studied print journalism and political science.

Randall Savely has served as Co-Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer of SCPA, SCNN, and the SCPA Foundation since 2021. He joined SCPA in 1999 as Manager of Press Services and served as Director of Operations from 2007 to 2021. Randall received his MBA from USC’s Moore School of Business and got his BS at Tennessee Technological University.

Established in 1852, the South Carolina Press Association represents and serves more than 100 newspapers and online news publications in the Palmetto State.

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The Missing Equation: Navigating Risk to Maximize Impact

Philanthropy is, at its heart, a high-stakes investment in social change. Yet, while donors and funders work hard to understand and measure impact (the “return”), they frequently ignore the other half of the equation: risk (or at least don’t work to make explicit their implicit assumptions about risk). The failure to think about risk is diluting results and potentially costing funders billions of dollars annually.

Join Tamela Spann, Vice President, Community Investments at Hollingsworth Funds, for a panel-led discussion designed to help boards and executive leadership identify their organization’s specific “risk appetite” and determine where they sit on the spectrum of risk taking.

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