Partnerships

Sharing diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and liberation values, Maddox cultivates an environment of trust with our partners.

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Nonprofit Partners

The Maddox Fund partners with nonprofits to advance our interest in youth and the natural environment.  For Maddox, strong nonprofit partnerships are built on our shared justice and liberation values and a commitment to learning.

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Investments

The Maddox Fund is seeking to align its investments with our values after having been a traditional endowment investor since 2008. As a learning organization, we are examining our practices and exploring how we can live our mission in all aspects of our work.

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Vendors

The Maddox Fund has developed a vendor selection tool to help us live into our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, and Liberation values in all aspects of our work.  

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Transparency

To strengthen partner relationships, the Maddox Fund strives to be transparent in all our actions.  We aim to be open with our practices and accountable to our community.  If there is information you need that is not available on our website, please call the staff. 

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Partnerships North Stars

Sharing DEIJL values, Maddox cultivates an environment of trust with our partners.

  • Nonprofits
    • Maddox’s work with nonprofit partners centers relationships and mutual learning. 
    • Maddox views nonprofit partners as subject-matter experts and elevates their voices through the sharing of power.
    • Maddox adopts DEIJL indicators, tracks organizational progress and makes data available to the community.
  • Investments
    • Maddox aligns all its assets with its Vision, Mission, and DEIJL Values.
    • Maddox engages investment partners that embrace and embody its DEIJL Values.
    • As a learning organization, Maddox actively monitors its investment activities, measures their effectiveness, and adapts as necessary to live out our values while meeting our investment objectives.
  • Vendors
    • Maddox actively seeks diverse, local vendors that share our DEIJL values.
    • Maddox tracks vendor diversity.

Jen Bailey is the Executive Director of the Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund, bringing her deep experience in community-based leadership, philanthropy, and movement-building to the organization.

Jen is the Founder of Faith Matters Network, a national Womanist-led organization accompanying spiritually-grounded leaders on their journey to heal themselves and their communities. Since its inception, Faith Matters Network has served over 25,000 leaders through its programs and initiatives. She is Co-Founder of The People’s Supper, a global initiative that has hosted over 2,000 gatherings in 135 communities to foster conversation and collective healing across lines of difference.

Committed to advancing social change through philanthropy and nonprofit leadership, Jen serves on the boards of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Fetzer Institute, and The Healing Trust, where she is the Board Chair.

An Ashoka Fellow, New Pluralist Field Builder, Aspen Ideas Scholar, On Being Fellow, and Truman Scholar, Jen holds degrees from Tufts University and Vanderbilt University Divinity School, where she was awarded the Wilbur F. Tillett Prize for accomplishments in the study of theology. Her work has been featured by On Being with Krista Tippett, CBS This Morning, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more. She is also the author of To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss, and Radical Hope (Chalice Press, 2021).

email Jen: [email protected]