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Societal Purpose Call for Essays on Non-Profit Financial Management

Background and Purpose

Through their training and experience, actuaries have an opportunity to use their financial skills for Societal Purpose, benefiting society as a whole outside of their ordinary job duties. Financial Management, which may include financial planning, projections, risk management and other financial work, is an area where non-profit organizations can benefit from in-kind donation of an actuary’s skillset by a professional wishing to contribute to the greater good.

Topics of Interest

The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Societal Purpose Committee seeks to raise awareness of how actuaries can get involved in financial management for non-profit organizations and invites essay submissions addressing how actuaries can use their specific skills to address this need and providing examples of what actuaries are doing for non-profits.

As a practicing actuary, it will be helpful to learn what you have done or what you have seen fellow actuaries do to utilize their actuarial talents in these ways, to help develop a set of best practices for helping non-profit organizations with financial management.

Please submit your thoughts in an essay in response to this call for essays as outlined below. This will be a great help for the SOA Societal Purpose Committee to develop a framework for how actuaries can use their “actuarial powers for good”!

This call has been intentionally framed in broad terms to encourage a wide range of perspectives and approaches.

Rules for Essay Submission

Timeline

The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2025. Essays may be published in a formal collection.

Length and Instructions for Submission

Essays must be submitted in English with a desired length of between 500 to 2,500 words. Except for citing quotations or controversial information, formal or extensive footnoting is not required. Essays must comply with the SOA's antitrust guidelines. Essays that contain any overt political statements, commercial content, inflammatory tone, and other inappropriate material will not be accepted for publication.

At the beginning of the essay, please provide the following information about the author: name, credentials or designations (if appropriate), email address, phone number, and either personal street address or title, company/organization name, and company/organization address. Essays accepted for publication will show the author’s name but no further contact information.

Please submit your essay via email to research@soa.org with the subject line “Societal Purpose Call for Essays on Non-Profit Financial Management CFE.”

Publication and Presentation

The SOA may publish and disseminate the essays collected for publication in an electronic format. Essays may also be presented at an SOA meeting, webcast, or other professional development event.

In addition, other venues for publication or presentation of the ideas outside of the SOA may be considered. It is hoped that publication of the collected essays will further knowledge and stimulate discussion as well as promote future efforts in this area.

Rights Granted

By submitting an essay for consideration, the essay author(s) is granting to the Society of Actuaries an unlimited license to print or republish their essay with proper attribution given to the author(s).

Questions

Please direct any questions regarding this Call for Essays to research@soa.org with the subject line “Societal Purpose Call for Essays on Non-Profit Financial Management CFE.”