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Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Engaging Youth Peer Network: Successful Methods for Engaging Youth in Family Philanthropy
May 15, 2024
While educating and encouraging youth to actively participate in philanthropy can be challenging, it can also be very rewarding. This conversation will center on the success stories of engaging youth. Join us to hear from Craig Kelley of the Kelley Foundation about what strategies and tools have been helpful in involving youth at his foundation. We will also have ample Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

BIPOC Leaders Peer Network: Unpacking Reparations Through a BIPOC Lens
December 12, 2024 | Dr. LaTonya Penny, Audrey Jacobs
Following the webinar A Racial Reparations Framework for Family Philanthropy, the BIPOC Peer Network will meet to continue the discussion of this important topic. Join us on December 12 for a conversation facilitated by BIPOC Leaders Peer Network Co-chairs Audrey Jacobs and Dr. LaTonya Penny.  Unpack what it means to do reparative work as a BIPOC professional.  Join us for Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

BIPOC Leaders Peer Network: Situating Power for Impact: Leadership from Every Role
April 18, 2024 | June L. Wilson
How can BIPOC professionals in family philanthropy use their leadership for impact, regardless of their roles or titles? Longtime philanthropy leader and Compton Foundation President June Wilson will share words of wisdom on how we can each lean into leadership and feel empowered. If you are unable to attend this event, but are interested in being a part of the Read More
Blog | From NCFP, Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Improving Philanthropic Practice by Prioritizing Reflection & Learning
February 6, 2024 | Emerald Adeyemi, Don Chen
Family philanthropy done well can achieve lasting and meaningful change in the world and within the families themselves. To be effective, NCFP believes funders must employ four principles: accountability, equity, relationships, and reflection and learning. Despite being essential to impactful funding, a commitment to reflection and learning is often the first practice to be left behind when the day-to-day is Read More

Equity Lead
January 30, 2024
Crown Family Philanthropies seeks its first Equity Lead to ensure the Foundation’s internal operations and grantmaking processes are consistently implemented through an equitable, inclusive framework. About the Equity Lead The successful candidate will have a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, intercultural awareness, collaboration, and community-building. Significant experience in the non-profit and/or philanthropic sector(s), with particular knowledge of the Chicagoland Read More
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Effective Family Philanthropy: The Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation
January 29, 2024 | Wendy Paris, Inside Philanthropy
Grand Finale: A Family Foundation Focused on Free Concerts Announces its Spend Down On a warm Sunday in July, about 50 people sat on the grassy lawn under towering evergreens facing the Levitt Pavilion near downtown Los Angeles, listening to the band Los Del Momento play a modern take on Mexican regional Sierreño music. On stage, the sun glinted off Read More
Blog | From NCFP

Preparing for Bold Leadership
January 26, 2024 | Nicholas A. Tedesco
As I look back at the past few years, it’s clear that the challenges we faced as a society and as a sector have been unrelenting. It’s also been a time of great promise. Many families have shifted their philanthropic practices to respond to urgent and entrenched problems. They have taken bigger risks, leaned into trust, listened to communities, and Read More
Events & Webinars | Learning and Action Cohort

[Application Deadline Extended] 2024 Strengthening Democracy Learning and Action Cohort
March 18, 2024 | Sayu Bhojwani, Jennifer Cho
The deadline to apply to participate in the Strengthening Democracy Learning and Action Cohort has been extended to March 18. We will be accepting applications on a rolling basis so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Strengthening Democracy Learning & Action Network Overview Hosted by NCFP and developed with the expert knowledge and facilitation of the team Read More

Director of Development & Volunteers
December 23, 2023
For the last nine years, Corey C. Griffin Foundation (created to honor the memory and legacy of Corey C. Griffin who passed away in 2014) has experienced incredible success and growth. This success would not have been possible without the hard work of its dedicated board of directors, its inspiring grantees and nonprofit partners, and the hundreds of Foundation volunteers Read More
Events & Webinars | Learning and Action Cohort

Application Deadline: 2024 Racial Justice Learning and Action Cohort
January 31, 2024
Racial Justice Learning & Action Network Overview The National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP) has partnered with Bari Katz and Edgar Villanueva of Leverage Philanthropic Partners to create a Learning and Action Cohort that will: provide participants with knowledge and tools to operationalize their commitment to racial equity in their grantmaking, governance, and operations be grounded in a root-cause analysis Read More

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