Events & Webinars | Webinars

Adding nonfamily trustees and community voices to your family foundation board

What are the signs that your foundation’s board might benefit from adding a community leader to bring new energy and a fresh voice to board deliberations and decisions? Some family foundations have never had an outside trustee on the board and don’t want one. Others have had non-family trustees since their inception—either a friend or business associate of the founder, a trusted lawyer or accountant, or a program expert or local community leader respected by the family. Read More
Blog | Network News

November 2025: Network News

November 19, 2025
NCFP strives to connect its members to resources, best practices, and to peer funders. Network News highlights updates from our members and partners, showcasing 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. Crankstart Helps Cover Read More

Santhosh Ramdoss

November 19, 2025
Santhosh Ramdoss is president and CEO and chief investment officer of Gary Community Ventures. Previously, he served as Gary’s VP of Impact Investing, overseeing the organization’s endowment and helping deploy a larger pool of financial assets in service of its mission. Santhosh helped Gary establish partnerships with leading impact fund managers and companies while incubating capital vehicles like the Dearfield Read More

Brittany Collins

November 10, 2025
Brittany is a trusted strategic advisor in philanthropy and social impact, with nearly 20 years of experience driving systems change through community development, place-based investments, and education policy and practice. As Executive Director of the Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation, she oversees the Foundation’s governance, investments, and strategy to expanding access to education and mental health services for families and Read More

Grants Management and Executive Assistant, Chesapeake

November 6, 2025
The Grants Management and Executive Assistant provides administrative and grants management support for the Foundation’s Chesapeake office and staff, primarily Kenneth Turner, the Program Director, Community Engagement; Julie Hester, the Program Director, Watershed Advocacy, and Alex Echols, the Program Strategist, Agriculture. The successful candidate has a passion for being helpful and supportive, with a natural inclination to anticipate the needs Read More
Blog | Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Unlocking Doors: Relational Reparations, Shared Liberation, and the Healing Power of Story

As an NCFP Fellow, I was given the opportunity to explore a question about family philanthropy with the goal of contributing to more effective practices in the field. I wanted to better understand how philanthropy could move beyond extraction toward practices of repair and return. That journey began with questions about wealth, the responsibility wealth holders have, and how family Read More

Research & Insights Analyst

November 5, 2025
RLD Foundation seeks a curious and rigorous researcher to join our data strategy and insights team. In this role, you’ll help curate and generate the evidence and insights that inform our grantmaking strategy, deepen our understanding of the issues and communities we serve, and strengthen field-wide learning through transparent knowledge-sharing. Reporting to the Director of Data Insights & Strategy, the Read More