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Hi, I’m Carla McDonald and I started with Gingras Global Inc. five years ago, but for the past year and a half I have worked at Anchorra, which is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting grassroots initiatives and mission-driven entrepreneurs through funding access, operational guidance, and capacity-building resources. As the fiscal sponsorship director, I work with projects to provide fiduciary support for organizations or entrepreneurs that would like to apply for grants or receive funding through a nonprofit organization but are not set up as one. Hi, I’m Jennifer Vanderdonckt. I have been with Gingras Global for just over five years, and I currently hold a role at Anchorra, which is their nonprofit sister company. I am the finance director and the charitable investing lead, so I do all the back office work for the finances, paying out any of our customers and handling anything that has to do with the financial side. On the charitable investing side, I build clientele, help donor-advised funds come in, and support the companies that are looking to be invested in. Ultimately, how we have defined sustained excellence is consistently achieving and maintaining a high standard of performance, quality, or results. For us, that means we are always striving to do the best we can do and working within our processes, even as those processes sometimes change. When I think about sustained excellence, one of the key pieces of being excellent is consistency. We come at our jobs looking for better ways of doing things. We don’t want just high points or low points—we want a consistent standard across the board. We aim to do our jobs as perfectly as possible, knowing perfection isn’t truly the goal, but instead approaching work with intention and purpose. We continually ask ourselves how we can improve our processes so that all of our projects and the different companies we work with receive consistent care and follow certain guidelines, while still honoring that every project and every person we work with at Anchorra is unique. That approach is how we grow, because growth is another form of consistency. As we grow, we try to make the way we do things easier, not harder, by developing new processes and guidelines to serve our projects better. At the same time, we remain very flexible as an organization. When a process changes or when we know there’s a better way to do it, we are always willing to make those changes.