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Blog | Voices from the Field

Strategic, Responsive, or Both?
October 14, 2016 | Kris Putnam-Walkerly
Responsive grantmaking is being open to receiving proposals and ideas from any nonprofit, and allowing the nonprofits to drive the agenda. Requests are initiated by the nonprofit, rather than by a funder seeking them out. This doesn’t mean that a foundation doesn’t have core areas of focus, but that within those areas is wishes to be responsive to the needs nonprofits feel most keenly. Read More
Events & Webinars | Conferences and Workshops

2016 NCFP CEO Retreat: a Joint Retreat for Family and Non-Family CEOs
September 20, 2016 | Doug Bitonti Stewart, Katherine Lorenz, Virginia M. Esposito
The role of a family foundation CEO is unique, often bridging generations of family members, community leaders, staff, advisors, and partners. Expectations can be challenging to meet and boundaries are sometimes vague and ever-changing. Success in this role requires a cadre of specialized leadership skills. This 3-day retreat, to be held at the family home of David and Lucile Packard, Read More
Blog | Featured Article

Gratitude and Humility in Philanthropy: From a Story, to a Value, to Action
September 6, 2016 | Julie Fisher Cummings, Doug Bitonti Stewart
Authors and leaders throughout the field have published articles and tools (e.g. Grandparent Legacy Project) aimed to help families ask questions to elicit the core values of our founders. When we are able to connect our founders’ values to real-life stories, it can have a profound impact on our families and those we serve. Read More
Knowledge Center | Report

Core Components of Foundations that Learn
July 21, 2016 | Robert Chaskin, Ralph Hamilton, Prue Brown, Leila Fiester, Josh Weber, Harold Richman
There is a growing sense in the philanthropic field that knowledge, strategically applied, is as important to community-change efforts as money. If this is true, then foundation leaders must re-imagine and reconstruct the role of learning and give it a central place in their organizations’ missions, goals, strategies, internal structures, and external partnerships. In short, foundations must become learning institutions. Read More
Knowledge Center | Report

Creating Choices Before Making Choices: One Family Foundation’s Journey to Finding a Strategic Focus
July 21, 2016 | Kelly Medinger
Rooted in business principles, philanthropic study, and reflective practice, this article examines the first step of building a grantmaking strategy – finding an issue or problem to address – and presents a three-part model for creating choices that reflect a foundation’s donor intent, organizational talents and resources, and broader community needs. Ultimately, this process illustrates how a family foundation can find a strategic focus, either for all or simply Read More
Knowledge Center | Ask the Center

Is there a database for donors to find great grants/nonprofits to fund?
July 21, 2016 | National Center for Family Philanthropy
Every year, our family foundation considers new causes and grantees to support. Since the foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals, the foundation staff would like to know if there is a database or another resource that captures great grantseeker requests for funding. To our knowledge there does not (yet) exist a one-stop-shop for grantmakers looking to navigate requests for funding. However, Read More
Knowledge Center | Impact Story

Igniting the Spark: Lumpkin Family Foundation
June 22, 2016 | Youth Philanthropy Connect
The Lumpkin Family Foundation is located in Mattoon, Illinois, with family geographically dispersed.  The foundation supports people pursuing innovation and long-lasting improvements in the environment, health, education, and community access to the arts in its home of Clara County. This next gen case study describes their history of youth engagement, and the strategies they have used to engage youth connected Read More

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