311 Results for “Community Foundations Family Philanthropy Network”

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March 2024: News and Notes from NCFP’s Members and Partners

March 14, 2024
NCFP strives to connect its members to resources, best practices, and to peer funders. Network News highlights updates from our members and partners, showcacsing 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. In Memoriam: Celebrating Read More
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Improving Philanthropic Practice by Prioritizing Reflection & Learning

February 6, 2024 | Emerald Adeyemi, Don Chen
Family philanthropy done well can achieve lasting and meaningful change in the world and within the families themselves. To be effective, NCFP believes funders must employ four principles: accountability, equity, relationships, and reflection and learning. Despite being essential to impactful funding, a commitment to reflection and learning is often the first practice to be left behind when the day-to-day is Read More

Tonya Allen

September 22, 2023
Tonya Allen is a leader and a change agent with a passion for co-creating an equitable, sustainable world. In 2021, she became president of the McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based family foundation that advances a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive. Tonya heads a majority women, majority people-of-color senior leadership team and a diverse team of Read More

Robynn Steffen

August 30, 2023
Robynn Steffen is executive vice president at the Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI), where she is focused on building an organization that connects philanthropists to the trusted resources they need to take action on climate change—an urgent challenge that touches us all. Robynn brings more than 15 years of experience in solving complex challenges through strategic philanthropy, policy, partnerships and impact Read More
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July 2023: News and Notes from NCFP’s Members and Partners

July 31, 2023
Network News highlights updates from NCFP’s members and network partners. Current NCFP members or network partners are encouraged to email us with news they would like shared with the community.  Ann Mackey Huston and Darlene Motley Elected to Fred L. Emerson Foundation Board of Directors Kristen E. Rubacka, president of the Foundation commented: “We are extremely pleased to have Darlene Read More
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Partnership Lifecycle and Exercising Funder Responsibility and Accountability

July 25, 2023 | Nicholas Banovetz
“I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.” -Teton Sioux Tribe We’re in this together. Funders, grantees, and community. And while the dynamics of power and privilege exist, the values of collaboration, transparency, and responsibility define good philanthropy. At the Better Way Foundation, we work alongside grantees and Read More
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April 2023: News and Notes from NCFP’s Members and Partners

April 4, 2023
Network News highlights updates from NCFP’s members and network partners. Current NCFP members or network partners are encouraged to email us with news they would like shared with the community.  Packard Foundation Names Marielena Hincapié to its Board of Trustees Hincapié is a nationally respected leader and legal and political strategist in the justice movement, and a leading voice in Read More
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March 2023: News and Notes from NCFP’s Members and Partners

March 2, 2023
Network News highlights updates from NCFP’s members and network partners. Current NCFP members or network partners are encouraged to email us with news they would like shared with the community.  Fleishhacker Foundation’s Eureka Fellowship Program Awardees Announced Twelve Bay Area artists were named as the newest recipients of the Fleishhacker Foundation’s Eureka Fellowship Program. Awarded four at a time over Read More
Blog | Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Coming Together for the Greater Good

February 1, 2023 | Katie Leh
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Concinnity, an annual newsletter for the Andrus Family Philanthropy Program, and reposted here with permission. In the more than 20 years since the Andrus Family Philanthropy Program was created, the program and the Andrus Family Fund have grown and evolved. Learn about the ways that the program serves as a model of Read More

Gioia Perugini

January 24, 2023
Gioia Perugini directs Hemenway & Barnes’ philanthropic advisory practice, and works with individuals, families, advisors, charitable trusts, and foundations to provide a range of philanthropic and family office services. Her clients rely on her to design and implement charitable giving strategies, research particular charities, negotiate gifts of cash or tangible assets, coordinate family meetings, and design legacy giving programs. Gioia’s practice Read More