August 2024: News and Notes from NCFP’s Members and Partners
NCFP strives to connect its members to resources, best practices, and to peer funders. Network News highlights updates from our members and partners, showcasing accomplishments, new approaches or giving areas, innovative ideas, and staff and board transitions, and more.
We encourage our members and parters to email us with news that you would like to be shared.
William Caspar Graustein Foundation Names New CEO
Dr. Gislaine Ngouonou joins the William Caspar Graustein Foundation as its next CEO, bringing an impressive history of leadership including as the interim president and CEO of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation.
New Leadership at the Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Shelley Trott, former chief program officer at the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, will now serve as the organization’s first executive director.
The Arthur M. Blank Foundation Tackles Mental Health
With more than half a million dollars in grants, Glick Philanthropies seeks to support a healthy democracy. The funders recognized that all of the issue areas they fund are reliant on a well-functioning democracy.
Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation Announces Spend Down
With grantmaking concluding in December 2025, the Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation announces its spend down.