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Blog | Network News

September 2021: News and Notes from NCFP’s Friends of the Family Network
September 8, 2021
Friends Focus highlights updates from members of our Friends of the Family network and their work. This month features updates from the Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation, Castellano Family Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, McKnight Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Stupski Foundation, and Walton Family Foundation. Are you a current Friend or Leadership Circle member of NCFP with an update or Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Discussing Wealth, #HalfMyDAF, & the State of Philanthropy: Q&A with Jen Risher
September 3, 2021 | Jennifer Risher
Jen Risher is the author of We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth, and co-founded the #HalfMyDAF initiative in response to the pandemic. In this blog, Jen shares her personal reflections on wealth, the impetus for starting #HalfMyDAF, and perspectives on the current state of philanthropy. Can you please share your story of coming into wealth? I am lucky. Read More
Blog | Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Family Philanthropy Speaks: A Conversation with CC Gardner Gleser
August 30, 2021 | Nicholas A. Tedesco, C’Ardiss “CC” Gardner Gleser
CC Gardner Gleser is the first non-family chair of the Andrus Family Fund and is the Director of Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the Satterberg Foundation. In this Family Philanthropy Speaks conversation with Nick Tedesco, CC shares her path to philanthropy, how her own history intersects with the Satterberg family’s wealth creation, and the value of independent directors in the Read More
Knowledge Center | Tool

Why Am I Always Being Researched?
August 30, 2021 | Chicago Beyond
In this publication, Chicago Beyond offers “how” we can begin to level the playing field and reckon with unintended bias when it comes to research. This guidebook was created to help shift the power dynamic and the way community organizations, researchers, and funders uncover knowledge together. It is an equity-based approach to research that offers one way in which we Read More

Chicago Beyond
August 30, 2021
Chicago Beyond was created to continue this fight against the inequities pervasive in Chicago’s communities. Today, we’ve invested more than $30 million in community-led initiatives and individuals who are fighting for all youth to achieve their fullest human potential, in Chicago and beyond. Read More
Blog | From NCFP

Ginny’s Governance Checklist Part 2: Clarifying Foundation Needs and Board Member Expectations
August 27, 2021 | Virginia M. Esposito
The first installment of this blog series on building and maintaining your board focused on which principles will inspire and guide your governance policies and practices. These principles articulate critical issues of attitude and approach to governance and provide invaluable context for all board work. And while you likely are more than ready to start picking people, what are you Read More

Jumi Falusi
August 25, 2021
Ms. Falusi is Senior Vice President and Philanthropy Advisor at Bessemer Trust. In this role, she advises individuals and families on a range of philanthropy topics including strategic grantmaking, governance best practices, establishing charitable entities, and engaging the next generation. She also designs and facilitates in-depth family philanthropy learning sessions. Prior to joining Bessemer, Jumi was a private wealth advisor Read More
Knowledge Center | Report

Innovating Place-Based Grantmaking: An Evaluation of the Annie E. Casey Foundation “Strategic Co-Investor” Approach
August 25, 2021 | Annie E. Casey Foundation, TCC Group
When the Annie E. Casey Foundation launched Family-Centered Community Change™ (FCCC) in 2012, the Foundation set out to make improvements to their approach to place-based grantmaking. The programmatic aim was to support local partnerships to help parents and children succeed together in what is known as a “two-generation approach.” Rather than creating something new, Casey joined existing partnerships—located in Buffalo, New Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Takeaways Blog on Impact, Measurement, and Evaluation
August 18, 2021 | Jen Crino
Courtesy of Adeolu Eletu on Unsplash  This blog summarizes key notes from our August Fundamentals of Family Philanthropy Webinar. Impact is often an elusive concept in philanthropy. Giving families want to understand the impact of their investments, as well as the most effective way to assess progress, how to define and measure success for challenging and long-term problems, and ways Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Why and How Family Foundations Can Advance Equity Through Participatory Measurement
August 13, 2021 | Lymari Benitez, Yessica Cancel, Mary Marx, Katie Smith Milway, Teddy Thompson
Courtesy of Pace Center for Girls  The recent investment by MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett in funder coalitions Fund for Shared Insight and Equitable Evaluation Initiative—both dedicated to increasing participant feedback in evaluation—is the latest vote of support for gathering evidence of program impact in ways that engage program participants as experts in assessing their own experience. Participatory evaluation (PE), Read More

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