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Does NCFP have any resources to help my board chair prepare their successor?

Posted on April 7, 2017 by National Center for Family Philanthropy

NCFP is happy to support this transition and we recommend the following resources to help you get started… Read More

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Can Structure Set You Free?

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Lenore Hanisch, June L. Wilson

Whether your foundation is committed to operating in perpetuity, or you’re considering a strategic lifespan, does defining the parameters of your foundation’s activity restrict or liberate you?… Read More

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Honoring the Legacy of David Rockefeller

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Virginia M. Esposito

But I will never forget that December day many years ago when a check arrived from David Rockefeller. Back then, I got to open the envelopes myself and what I pulled out looked like a personal check. I stared at it for a very long time, absorbing what it meant to me… Read More

Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Barbara Shubinski

Launching family foundations is often the expression of donors’ desires to establish a lasting legacy and to instill in future generations the importance of giving. But family foundations face certain common pitfalls as well. The RBF is often held up as an example of a family foundation that has weathered these storms successfully. How might the ingredients of its success be described? What lessons can it offer?… Read More

Voices from the Field

How Can I Be 1% More?

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Philanthropy Northwest, June L. Wilson

I believe that Quixote Foundation’s reflective practices allowed us to hold multiple truths while engaging in internal and often uncomfortable racial equity training. Our ability to do this work at every level of the organization made a tremendous difference in our final year of grantmaking and grantee engagement… Read More

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Funding Community Innovation in Richmond, Virginia

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Robert Dortch

We challenged the nonprofit community to think creatively and to take risks. We asked them to take a comprehensive, enduring approach — not a quick fix, but a long-term plan for effective and transformative change… Read More

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How to Create — and Recreate — Your Family Foundation

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Virginia M. Esposito

Today marks the official launch of Splendid Legacy 2: Creating and Re-Creating Your Family Foundation. This new book, published by the National Center for Family Philanthropy, is an update to the popular, out-of-print 2002 first edition and includes advice from some of the field’s leading experts… Read More

Voices from the Field

What is Overhead, Anyway?

Posted on March 15, 2017

Overhead is one of the first concepts any philanthropist learns. It includes all of those administrative and fundraising costs that we secretly wish our nonprofit colleagues didn’t have to worry about. But what exactly is overhead, anyway?… Read More

Voices from the Field

“Change Happens at the Speed of Trust”

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Patrick Troska

We knew we had to change the dynamic. We began by changing how we show up as individuals and as an institution. The goal here was to listen with new ears – to get past our own experience, and strive to hear the lived experiences of those impacted by issues the Foundation cares about… Read More

Voices from the Field

Funders’ Role in Protecting Marginalized Communities During the Next Four Years

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Vu Le

An insidious result of injustice is that it isolates us from one another, and it allows those of us not directly affected to intellectualize, to think about it in the abstract. To combat it, we must be intentional about listening to those most affected, and we must make time to reconnect with and recommit to one another, even before taking action… Read More

NCFP Blog

Does NCFP have any resources to help my board chair prepare their successor?

Posted on April 7, 2017 by National Center for Family Philanthropy

Can Structure Set You Free?

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Lenore Hanisch, June L. Wilson

Honoring the Legacy of David Rockefeller

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Virginia M. Esposito

Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Barbara Shubinski

How Can I Be 1% More?

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Philanthropy Northwest, June L. Wilson

Funding Community Innovation in Richmond, Virginia

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Robert Dortch

How to Create — and Recreate — Your Family Foundation

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Virginia M. Esposito

What is Overhead, Anyway?

Posted on March 15, 2017

“Change Happens at the Speed of Trust”

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Patrick Troska

Funders’ Role in Protecting Marginalized Communities During the Next Four Years

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Vu Le

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