As a service to new and emerging donors, NCFP is pleased to offer the complete edition of Splendid Legacy 2: Creating and Re-Creating Your Family Foundation in PDF format. To download individual chapters, please see the list and links below.
I. Creating Your Family Foundation
Foreword and Introduction
by Paul and Debbie Brainerd and Virginia M. Esposito
Chapter 1: Core Values of a Splendid Legacy
by Sarah Jane Cavanaugh
Chapter 2: Goals and Mission
by Virginia M. Esposito
Chapter 3: Ethics in Family Philanthropy
by Michael Rion
Chapter 4: Things We Wish Our Founders Had Told Us
by Susan Packard Orr
Chapter 5: One Family’s Story – A Conversation with Bill Gates Sr.
by Bill Gates, Sr.
II. Creating Your Framework
Chapter 6: Family Foundations and the Law
by John Sare
Chapter 7: Funding Your Family Foundation
by Antonia M. Grumbach (with A 2017 Review And Update By John Sare And Brian Sweet)
Chapter 8: Good Governance: The Foundation Imperative
by Virginia M. Esposito
Chapter 9: Managing Your Family Foundation
by Elaine Gast Fawcett
Chapter 10: Finance and Investments
by Jason Born, Pam Howell-Beach, and Sarah Stranahan
III. Creating Your Processes
Chapter 11: Effective Grantmaking: The Fulfillment Of Your Mission
by Susan Crites Price
Chapter 12: Communications: Enhancing Process, Participation, and the Public Face of Your Foundation
by Nina Sachdev Hoffman and Vincent Stehl
IV. Re-Creating and Revitalizing
Chapter 13: Engaging the Next Generation
by Susan Crites Price
Chapter 14: Assessment and Renewal
by Virginia M. Esposito and Peter Panepento
V. Commencement
Chapter 15: The Currency of Trusteeship – Tools for the Work of Governance
by David Dodson
Chapter 16: The Spirit of Philanthropy and The Soul Of Those Who Manage It
by Paul Ylvisaker