Things We Wish Our Founders Had Told Us
Posted on September 21, 2017 by Susan Packard Orr
This resource is an excerpt of Chapter 4 from “Splendid Legacy 2: Creating and Re-creating Your Family Foundation”… Read More
National Center for Family Philanthropy
Ethics in Family Philanthropy
Posted on September 21, 2017 by Michael Rion
This resource is an excerpt of Chapter 3 from “Splendid Legacy 2: Creating and Re-creating Your Family Foundation”… Read More
Goals and Mission: Chapter 2 of “Splendid Legacy 2: Creating and Re-Creating Your Family Foundation”
Posted on September 21, 2017 by Virginia M. Esposito
This resource is an excerpt of Chapter 2 from “Splendid Legacy 2: Creating and Re-creating Your Family Foundation”… Read More
Core Values of a Splendid Legacy
Posted on September 21, 2017 by Sarah Cavanaugh
This resource is an excerpt of Chapter 1 from “Splendid Legacy 2: Creating and Re-creating Your Family Foundation”… Read More
How can family foundations and community foundations work most effectively together?
Posted on September 15, 2017 by Tim Ober, Shelley Hoss, National Center for Family Philanthropy, Keith Swayne, Audrey Jacobs, Ann Mulholland
Are there good examples of family foundations working closely with the donor community, brought to the table via the community foundation, to strengthen philanthropic initiatives broadly? How can we partner with the community foundations in our state to know community goals and make more effective grants in those areas? … Read More
Speech to United States Conference of Mayors
Posted on September 14, 2017 by La June Montgomery Tabron
W.K. Kellogg Foundation President and CEO La June Montgomery Tabron delivered the following speech on The Kellogg Foundation’s framework for Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT). This framework can help drive cities and communities forward and it will support the comprehensive equity agenda that the United States Conference of Mayors created… Read More
Want Better Advice for Donors? Build an Expert Marketplace for Philanthropy
Posted on September 12, 2017 by Simone Friedman
A philanthropic-expert marketplace would take advantage of the investments foundations make in their professional staffs and in so doing would enable grant makers to have greater influence on the larger philanthropic world… Read More
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Community Foundations Family Philanthropy Network Topical Call: Models for Contracted and Fee-based Services (September 2017)
Posted on September 12, 2017 by Communities Foundation of Texas, Foundation for the Carolinas, Catherine Warfield, Tony Macklin
A conversation about models for fee-based and/or contracted services for private foundations. The conversation kicks off with Sarah Higdon or the Communities Foundation of Texas and Catherine Warfield from Foundation from the Carolinas… Read More
The National Center for Family Philanthropy Celebrates 20 Years
Posted on September 11, 2017 by Virginia M. Esposito
Today marks the beginning of a year-long celebration —honoring not only NCFP’s 20th anniversary, but the amazing accomplishments of families like yours. … Read More
GrantAdvisor.Org: Why All the Cool People Are Using It
Posted on September 7, 2017 by Vu Le
GrantAdvisor.org is like TripAdvisor or Yelp, but for reviewing foundations. Anyone can provide a review, and when a foundation has five reviews, its profile will go live so everyone can see all the reviews. It’ll help foundations to get no-BS feedback and advice that they might not be able to get otherwise… Read More