Blog | Network News

April 2024: News and Notes from NCFP’s Members and Partners

April 17, 2024
NCFP strives to connect its members to resources, best practices, and to peer funders. Network News highlights updates from our members and partners, showcacsing 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. Dilnaz Waraich and Read More
Blog | From the Archive

From the Archive: Things We Wish Our Founders Had Told Us

April 11, 2024
NCFP’s From the Archive series highlights resources from our Knowledge Center that have stood the test of time and continue to provide valuable guidance for the field.  In 2016, 20 years after the death of her father, Susan Packard Orr reflected on the challenges of interpreting donor legacy. Susan wrote that, after asking her father to share what he wanted Read More

Managing Director of Programs

April 3, 2024
The Sarofim Foundation (SF) seeks an experienced foundation or nonprofit leader with a proven track record of leading impact in the community. The Managing Director of Programs (MDP) will be a person of high caliber and high character who will take a disciplined approach to building a dynamic, partner-driven organization. The MDP will work with the Executive Director as a Read More

Managing Director of Finance

April 3, 2024
The Sarofim Foundation (SF) seeks an experienced foundation or nonprofit leader with a proven track record of leading impact in the community. The Managing Director of Finance (MDF) will be a person of high caliber and high character who will take a deliberate approach to building a dynamic, partner-driven organization. A successful candidate will embody relentless optimism and humility. The Read More

Chief Executive Officer

April 2, 2024
After an exceptionally long, creative, and joyful partnership with transformative leaders, The Durfee Foundation has embarked upon planned leadership transitions and seeks a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The CEO will lead a family- and community-oriented organization that is primed to thrive in its next evolution. Reporting to the Board of Directors – composed of multigenerational family members and community Read More
Blog | From NCFP, Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Know Your Neighbors: Building Trusting Relationships in Family Philanthropy

April 1, 2024 | Erin Borla, Sokol Shtylla
Collaboration and partnership are the cornerstones to accomplishing meaningful impact on pressing social issues. But both are difficult to come by due to the inherent power imbalance that exists in philanthropy, where funders control resources needed to support the wellbeing of communities. Trust is required to foster collaborative partnerships between funders and grantees. But how can trust occur if you Read More

Nicolette Rea

April 1, 2024
Nicolette “Nici” Rea has been with the Community Foundation Tampa Bay for over 4 years. She oversees stewardship of existing fundholders and enjoys connecting fundholders to causes they care about. An attorney by trade, she also assists the Community Foundation with IRS compliance, fund administration, and community Foundation governance. She works with many professional advisors and uses her connections in Read More

Chief Advancement Officer

March 31, 2024
The Borealis Philanthropy Chief Advancement Officer (CAO) will be charged with overseeing the development and implementation of an organization-wide fundraising and communications strategy that is grounded in our organizational vision and values. This individual will be responsible for ensuring that the organization not only meets its revenue targets, but is actively working to bring on new donors, with priorities to: Read More

Tracy Burt

March 28, 2024
As the leader of the marketing and communications department, Tracy is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the community foundation’s marketing initiatives and management of the organization’s brand. As an account director at Akhia Communications, a local public relations and marketing agency, Tracy developed and executed integrated marketing plans for a variety of business-to-business and consumer clients. She has Read More

Karen Hrdlicka

March 28, 2024
Karen Hrdlicka leads The Center for Family Philanthropy, a charitable resource center created by Akron Community Foundation to connect the region’s most generous families with the charitable knowledge and resources of the foundation. Karen provides customized consulting to these families, helping them maximize their personal charitable goals and create a multigenerational legacy consistent with their mission and family values. A Read More