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April 2020: News and Notes from NCFP’s Friends of the Family Network

April 5, 2020
Friends Focus highlights updates from members of our Friends of the Family network and their cutting edge work. This month features updates from the Bainum Family Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, The Libra Foundation, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Self Family Foundation, and Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund. Are you a current Friend or Leadership Circle member Read More
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NCFP Signs Joint Statement Promoting Greater Payout

April 2, 2020 | Nicholas A. Tedesco
Dear Community Members, It has been said many times and will continue to be said: this is a challenging time. Communities are in crisis, nonprofits are at risk, and markets are struggling. But, philanthropy was built for moments like these—ones that require a nimble response and compassionate heart. Accordingly, many donors are embracing this opportunity to mobilize resources to address Read More

Stephanie Powers

April 1, 2020
Stephanie Powers is the Senior Advisor for Public Policy & Partnerships managing public-philanthropic partnerships in the Council on Foundations’ Department of Public Policy and Government Relations. The public partnership portfolio compliments the Council’s long standing work as the policy voice for philanthropy to the Legislative Branch and ensures that philanthropy has a voice within the Executive branch as well.  In Read More
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Rapid Response Funding Partnerships in the Fight Against SARS-CoV-2

March 31, 2020 | Will Fitzpatrick
As the coronavirus pandemic intensifies, philanthropists are struggling to respond. Nearly the entire world suddenly has the same urgent needs: more and better diagnostic testing, personal protective and respiratory equipment, food supply support, and small business support, to name a critical few. At the same time, we are beginning to see huge systemic flaws in our national and global healthcare system Read More

Sutton Mora Hayes

March 24, 2020
Sutton Mora Hayes is the Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at The Community Foundation of Greater Memphis. Read More

Andrea Minadakis

March 24, 2020
Andrea Minadakis is Grants Manager at the Marin Community Foundation in Novato, California. Read More

Alix Derby Salkin

March 24, 2020
Alix Derby Salkin is Vice President for Philanthropic Partnerships at the Marin Community Foundation in Novato, California. Read More

Patricia McIlreavy

March 19, 2020
Patricia “Patty” McIlreavy joined the Center for Disaster Philanthropy as its president and CEO in March 2020. Prior to joining CDP, Patty served as the vice president of the humanitarian policy and practice at InterAction. During that time, she led the organization’s efforts to assist the humanitarian community, including InterAction Members, U.N. agencies and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, to address Read More

Marcus F. Walton

March 19, 2020
Marcus F. Walton joins GEO with over a decade of practice in both nonprofit management and the ontological learning model. He specializes in operationalizing conceptual frameworks; racial equity facilitation and training; leadership and management strategy; stakeholder engagement; program development and navigating philanthropy. In his previous role as Director of Racial Equity Initiatives for Borealis Philanthropy, Marcus lead the Racial Equity Read More

Antony Bugg-Levine

March 19, 2020
Antony Bugg-Levine is CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, one of the nation’s leading community development financial institutions that makes millions of dollars in loans to nonprofits and pushes for fundamental improvement in how money is given and used in the sector. Prior to this, he co-led the Rockefeller Foundation’s program work focused on impact investing – that is developing investment vehicles Read More