Events & Webinars | Community Foundations Network

Community Foundation Spark Session: Building Blocks for Successful Family Philanthropy Services

An increasing number of consultants, wealth management firms, Donor-Advised Fund sponsors, and more are positioning themselves as trusted guides in families’ philanthropic journeys. They’re answering families’ questions about social impact, values alignment, successor generation preparation and engagement, and more.   Will your community foundation maintain a competitive advantage in that marketplace? Will you be positioned as a trusted resource beyond grants Read More

Leap Ambassadors Community

February 15, 2019
Leap Ambassadors Community is a private community of nonprofit thought leaders, leader practitioners, progressive funders, policy makers, and instigators who believe “performance matters.” Read More

Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln

February 15, 2019
The Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln hopes to be seen as an inviting option for philanthropists and charitable organizations in neighboring communities to Sangamon County that are not currently reaping the benefits a community foundation can provide. We are accredited by the Council on Foundations and we are your community foundation for Sangamon and surrounding counties. Community foundations are tax-exempt Read More

Akron Community Foundation

February 4, 2019
The Akron Community Foundation aims to improve the quality of life in Greater Akron by building permanent endowments and providing philanthropic leadership that enables you to make a lasting investment in the community. Read More
Events & Webinars | Community Foundations Network

Community Foundation Spark Session: Successful Generational Transitions

In philanthropic families, no subject generates more questions than preparing for and successfully passing the responsibility of a foundation or fund to successor generations. Family members consider issues both personal (e.g. self-identity, legacy, family roles) and pragmatic (e.g. timing, knowledge and skills required, differing work and decision-making styles).   Community foundation staff can play a key role in smoothing those transitions in donor families, often helping families plan Read More
Events & Webinars | Community Foundations Network

Community Foundation Spark Session: Business Models for Family Philanthropy Services

This is NCFP’s third annual deep dive into business models for more intensive community foundation services to multi-generation and multi-branch families. Two foundations will provide details on how they defined their customer segments, developed their portfolio of programs and services, worked with their board to set goals and success measures, refined their financial model for expanded services, engage advisors, and more. Their presentations will be based on NCFP’s Philanthropic Services Business Model Canvas and join Read More
Events & Webinars | Webinars

Community Foundation Spark Session: Money, Values, and Culture

Please join us for this special joint NCFP Webinar and Community Foundation Spark Session, brought to you by the generous support of our Community Foundations Family Philanthropy Network. Each of us has our own money story – the underlying assumptions, messages, hopes, and behaviors that we’ve learned over time about the meaning and use of money. Those stories are also Read More
Knowledge Center | Podcast

Community Foundations Family Philanthropy Network Topical Call: How to Serve Donors with Cognitive Impairments (December 2018)

December 12, 2018 | Tony Macklin
Donors and fund advisors can suffer from cognitive impairments through aging, injury, substance abuse, and more. How can you ethically serve these individuals and better help them stay connected to their families’ philanthropic work? Phil Purcell, JD, will leads this topical call conversation based on his experience and training he’s done for the I.U. Lilly School of Philanthropy, legal continuing Read More