Blog | From NCFP

How We Give: Ten Tips for Donors and Families

December 18, 2019 | Virginia M. Esposito
Editor’s Note: It’s the giving season! NCFP originally published this piece on October 15, 2007. All of the tips and recommendations here remain as relevant today as they were then… There is a lot of justifiable attention paid these days to some of the BIG questions about philanthropy and the philanthropic process: Why give? How much to give? What to Read More

Emily Davis

December 16, 2019
Emily’s career at the Greater Washington Community Foundation began in November 2016 as a regional Donor Services Associate. Her current role as Campaign Coordinator includes development and relationship management for the annual Celebration of Philanthropy, Fund for Greater Washington, and Building Thriving Communities impact initiatives, and assisting with The Community Foundation’s Professional Advisor network (specifically the Young Professional Advisors Committee, Read More

Kyla Quintero

December 16, 2019
Kyla Quintero is the Chief Financial Officer at the Arizona Community Foundation. Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Streamlining for Equity: Your First Two Steps to Take

December 13, 2019 | Allison Gister
This piece was originally published on PEAK Grantmaking’s website and appears with permission. Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop on “Streamlining from the Inside Out” for our Southern California Regional Chapter. PEAK Grantmaking has long-championed the effort to simplify grants management processes and find efficiencies—starting with our “Project Streamline” initiative and, continuing today, through our Principles for Peak Grantmaking Read More

Alexa Cortes Culwell

December 10, 2019
Alexa Cortes Culwell has decades of experience building, managing, and advising philanthropic initiatives, as both a foundation CEO and a partner to donors shaping their strategy, implementation, learning, and legacy. As Co-founder and CEO of Open Impact, she leads an innovative team with a distinctive and holistic approach to working alongside clients at every step in their giving journey. Alexa’s Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Trust-based Philanthropy: The Durfee Foundation

December 9, 2019 | The Whitman Institute
Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series by the Whitman Institute (TWI), featuring foundations that practice trust-based philanthropy, that acknowledge the power dynamics and realities facing nonprofits, and that invite more authentic relationships and communication with grantees. This piece originally appeared on the Whitman Institute’s website and appears with permission. Since its inception in 1960, the Durfee Foundation in Los Angeles Read More

Meg Baesmith

December 5, 2019
As a co-founder of the Laughing Gull Foundation, Meg was honored to take the lead on launching the organization in 2013. In setting up LGF’s first grantmaking programs, operations, and strategies, Meg drew on fifteen years of leadership experience with innovative organizations including the Merck Family Fund, Resource Generation, Bolder Giving, The Food Project, The Farm School and Waltham Fields Community Farm. She was supported and inspired by Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Learning to Give with the Next Gen Giving Circle

December 5, 2019 | Next Gen Giving Circle
“I found a career in philanthropy on Craigslist,” says Carlyn Madden, a co-founder of the Next Gen Giving Circle and now a consultant to funders and nonprofits. “Does it get more Millennial than that?” An avid volunteer, Carlyn was hired right out of college by The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, the Washington, DC region’s largest private foundation. There she Read More

Next Gen Giving Circle

December 5, 2019
Founded in 2019, the Next Gen Giving Circle’s mission is to cultivate the next generation of philanthropists in the greater Washington D.C. region. The Giving Circle is comprised of members contributing monthly donations that get pooled together for impactful grants to community causes. Members convene throughout the year to connect and engage with the local community. The Giving Circle’s funds Read More

Jan Lane

December 3, 2019
Jan Lane currently serves as Development Officer and has worked for the Community Foundation since 2013. Jan works in conjunction with the Vice President of Development and other development staff to support charitable planning for community-minded individuals, families and companies. Jan is primarily responsible for cultivating and facilitating the Community Foundation’s legacy planning program. In 2015, Jan completed a Legacy Read More