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Executive Director
January 14, 2025
The Lumpkin Family Foundation (LFF) has been a beacon for healthy, sustainable communities in East Central Illinois and beyond for over seventy years. Now in its eighth decade, LFF is a quiet but proud force behind creative collaborations that protect and enhance the environment, ensure a strong local food economy, support healthy eating and physical activity, strengthen strategic community leadership, Read More

Director of Philanthropy & Service and Foundation Executive Director
January 8, 2025
A Washington, D.C. area-based family invites nominations and applications for a Director of Philanthropy & Service and Foundation Executive Director (Director) role. Founded in the 1990s, the foundation’s philanthropic and community service activities include long-standing commitments to youth pathways, college access and success, college scholarship programs, community housing, and integrative cancer care. As the family evolves its grantmaking and service Read More
Blog | Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Advancing Disability Inclusion in Family Philanthropy
January 8, 2025 | Cara Binder-Kopchick
While many family philanthropies have an expressed commitment to equity, disability and its intersectional relationship with other identities is rarely considered—even while about one in four adults in the U.S. have a disability. National Forum speakers Christie Cawley, Ryan Easterly, Gail Fuller, and Dr. Zakiya Mabery shared their expertise for advancing disability inclusion in family philanthropy. Here, Cara Binder-Kopchick synthesizes Read More

Kate Dearing Fowler
January 7, 2025
Kate Dearing Fowler is a philanthropic leader who has dedicated her career to community development and nonprofit support. As the Executive Director of The Jerry C. Dearing Family Foundation since 2015, she has overseen the distribution of over $25 million to Houston-based nonprofits focusing on health, education, and sustainability services. Her professional journey began with eight years in broadcast journalism, Read More
Events & Webinars | Regional Convenings

Trends in Family Philanthropy: A Houston Funder Convening
January 29, 2025 | Eleisha Nelson-Reed, Ryan Dolibois, Kate Dearing Fowler, Ann Ziker, Nicholas A. Tedesco
Join your Houston-based peers and NCFP to explore the latest trends in family philanthropy, based on findings from NCFP’s recent study, Trends 2025. Hear about changes in the sector across the last decade, including how family philanthropies are learning about new ideas and approaches. Understand your practices relative to your peers and how to use this information to make data-driven, Read More
Blog | Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Bridging Generations: Transforming Family Philanthropy Through Racial Equity Learning Journeys
January 2, 2025 | Olabayo Allen-Taylor, Jenna Nicholas
Racial justice and systemic inequities can be tough topics to grapple with as a family. Impact Experience’s Jenna Nicholas and Olabayo Allen-Taylor consider the ways that racial equity learning journeys not only provide an education for philanthropic families, but also draw families together across generations through shared experiences and knowledge as well as increased empathy.  Working together as a family Read More

Olabayo Allen-Taylor
December 20, 2024
Olabayo Allen-Taylor is an accomplished COO renowned for leading strategies to secure equitable capital investments in communities of color, especially within the environmental and educational sectors. She played a pivotal role in pioneering the Community Schools model and the Restorative Justice program for the Oakland Unified School District, initiatives that now benefit over 30,000 students and families. Additionally, Olabayo engages Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Engaging Youth Peer Network: Orienting the Next Generation to Your Philanthropy’s Purpose
March 20, 2025
Facilitating conversations about wealth and philanthropy can be intimidating and challenging, but it is important to explain your philanthropic purpose to ground and inform next-generation youth in your work. Join us for an interactive discussion about engaging youth (ages 15–18) that will focus on the role of the staff members in this process. Attendees will join a breakout group to connect with Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Save the Date: Fourth Quarter BIPOC Leaders Peer Network
November 20, 2025
NCFP’s BIPOC Leaders Peer Network, chaired by Audrey Jacobs and Dr. LaTonya Penny, is a learning and connection space for leaders of color in family philanthropy. Designed for donors, trustees, staff members, and advisors of family philanthropies, the network offers opportunities to to address the challenges and opportunities BIPOC leaders encounter within family philanthropies and family systems. More information about Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Save the Date: Third Quarter BIPOC Leaders Peer Network
June 12, 2025
NCFP’s BIPOC Leaders Peer Network, chaired by Audrey Jacobs and Dr. LaTonya Penny, is a learning and connection space for leaders of color in family philanthropy. Designed for donors, trustees, staff members, and advisors of family philanthropies, the network offers opportunities to to address the challenges and opportunities BIPOC leaders encounter within family philanthropies and family systems. More information about Read More

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