Employee Conflict of Interest Statement

Outside Employment

Partner Project employees and employees of FCNY who work at the Central Office may not conduct any outside work with any organizations that FCNY and NCCI have a business relationship with, and outside work cannot be done if it involves the same or similar duties that employees perform at FCNY/NCCI.

All Partner Project employees are required to notify their Partner Project Director (or functional equivalent) whenever they intend to engage in Outside Employment.  Employees should submit such notification to the Project Director via email prior to commencing any such activities.  “Outside Employment” means any paid work or service performed, directly or indirectly, for any firm, person, or organization other than the Project, including paid speaking, teaching, consulting or trainings.  The Partner Project Director has the right to disapprove any Outside Employment that they deem to be a conflict of interest or appearance of a conflict of interest, or that will interfere with the employee’s ability to faithfully and diligently discharge his/her duties and responsibilities on behalf of the Partner Project.

Employees of FCNY who work at the Central Office are required to notify the Chief Operating Officer and President whenever they intend to engage in Outside Employment.  Employees should submit such notification via email prior to commencing any such activities.  FCNY’s COO or President have the right to disapprove any Outside Employment that they deem to be a conflict of interest or appearance of a conflict of interest, or that will interfere with the employee’s ability to faithfully and diligently discharge his/her duties and responsibilities on behalf of FCNY.

The approval or disapproval of outside work done by Partner Project employees and employees of FCNY who work at the Central Office will be made by email before any work commenced and will be included in the employee’s HR file. All outside work can only be done outside of business hours. For the majority of employees this means 9:00-5:00 EST.

This policy does not preclude an employee from performing volunteer work or service for any charitable organization, provided that it does not interfere with the employee’s duties for the Partner Project or FCNY, or create a conflict of interest as described below.

Conflict of Interest

The Fund for the City of New York is committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct.

Fund employees bear a responsibility to maintain personal integrity and avoid any interests

that may create a conflict or appearance of a conflict between their involvement with the Fund

and personal affairs.

Partner Project employees and each individual who serves as the Project Director, Founder or the functional equivalent may not have a Conflicted Relationship (defined below)  with (i) any other entity or individual that does business or seeks to do business with the Partner Project, or (ii) another Partner Project.  

Employees of FCNY who work at the Central Office also may not have a Conflicted Relationship with any (i) other entity or individual that does business or seeks to do business with FCNY, or (ii) a Partner Project.  

 A “Conflicted Relationship” may be (a) a financial relationship, such as employment or providing consulting services to a conflicted entity; paid speaking engagements with a conflicted entity; having an ownership interest in a conflicted entity; or a paid referral relationship with a conflicted entity; (b) a volunteer relationship such as serving on the conflicted entity’s board of directors; or (c) a Relative relationship, including when a Relative is an officer, director, trustee, member, owner, sole proprietor, partner or employee of the conflicted entity. For the purposes of this policy, a “Relative” is defined as a parent, child, spouse, domestic partner, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, first cousin, any step or half relationships within the preceding categories, and any member of the household.

Anyone seeking an exception to this policy should submit their request via email to their Partner Project’s Executive Director or to FCNY’s Chief Operating Officer and President, if an employee of the Central Office.  The decision regarding any such exception shall be in FCNY’s sole discretion.

In no event shall this policy prevent any employee from engaging in any activities that are protected under the National Labor Relations Act or any whistleblower statutes.

Issue Date: January1, 2025