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Family Foundations Collaborate for Local Grants on Climate and Equity

July 27, 2022 | John Anderson Lanier
This was originally published by Drawdown Georgia and is re-posted here with permission What if several family foundations came together with a shared vision to jointly support a grant program for climate solutions and equity in Georgia? A new collaboration puts a fresh lens on the challenges and the solutions at hand. Family Foundations: Each one is different Early on Read More
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Takeaways Blog on Participatory Grantmaking

July 25, 2022 | Daria Teutonico
This blog summarizes key notes from our June Fundamentals of Family Philanthropy webinar. Many family-led philanthropies are successfully using a participatory grantmaking approach by engaging community members in their decision-making. And, for many philanthropic families, participatory grantmaking is an emerging practice. In the National Center for Family Philanthropy’s recent webinar, Nwamaka Agbo, Monica George, Cynthia Gibson, Ambar Cristina Hanson, and Leslie Ramyk Read More
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Five Questions for Liesel Pritzker Simmons

July 21, 2022 | Liesel Pritzker Simmons
Anniversaries are times for reflection on and celebration of the past, as well as an opportunity to imagine the future. As the National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP) celebrates our 25th anniversary, we are speaking with community members about their reflections on the evolutions of their own philanthropy, the sector, and NCFP as well as their hopes for the future.  Read More

Christina West-Bieg

July 18, 2022
Christina West-Bieg was born and raised in the Silicon Valley and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and a minor in Art History & Archaeology from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a Program Manager at Meta and has over a decade of previous experience in the tech and financial services industries. With a lifelong interest in music, arts Read More
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Effective Family Philanthropy: Tegan and Brian Acton

July 14, 2022 | Ade Adeniji, Inside Philanthropy
How Billionaire Couple Tegan and Brian Acton Are Giving in the Bay Area and Beyond Brian and Tegan Acton, in their 40s and worth some $3 billion, are among a new cohort of Silicon Valley donors engaging in major philanthropy. Stanford computer science graduate Brian Acton worked at Yahoo! with Jan Koum, where the two would link up for ultimate Read More
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July 2022: News and Notes from NCFP’s Friends of the Family Network

July 6, 2022
Friends Focus highlights updates from members of our Friends of the Family network and their work. Are you a current Friend or Leadership Circle member of NCFP with an update or good news about your foundation that you would like to share with Family Giving News readers? Please email us. Interested in learning more about the families involved in NCFP’s Friends of the Family network? Go Read More

Frank Baiocchi

July 5, 2022
Frank Baiocchi (he/him) is the executive director of the Hunter Family Foundation. He previously served as the executive director of the Johnson Family Foundation and as a senior program officer with the Polk Bros. Foundation. Currently, he is on the board of directors of the Ravinia Festival, Movement Advancement Project, and Wide Angle Research (founding chair). Frank has co-created and/or led Read More
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Five Questions for Kimberly Myers Hewlett

July 5, 2022 | Kimberly Myers Hewlett
Anniversaries are times for reflection on and celebration of the past, as well as an opportunity to imagine the future. As the National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP) celebrates our 25th anniversary, we are speaking with community members about their reflections on the evolutions of their own philanthropy, the sector, and NCFP as well as their hopes for the future.  Read More
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Open Letter to Family Philanthropists: Please, Invest in Our Democracy While We Still Can

June 24, 2022 | Adrienne Bousian
“When you read about these near misses [of stable democracies staving off authoritarian threats], two factors prove decisive again and again: when a society’s elite stands up to an authoritarian faction, using their power to beat it back, and when the mass public organizes and demonstrates in favor of democracy.” – Zack Beauchamp, American democracy is tottering. It’s not clear Read More

Heather Cash

June 21, 2022
Heather Cash, JD joined the Community Foundation of Louisville in January 2016 as the Director of Gift Planning. Heather was promoted to Vice President of Development and Stewardship in July 2018, and then to Senior Vice President of Development and Stewardship in July 2022. In this role, Heather leads the members of the Development and Stewardship team in their efforts Read More