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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

Mary Marx
August 13, 2021
Mary Marx is the President & CEO of the Pace Center for Girls and over the past decade has led the organization through an extensive period of growth. Since its founding in 1985, Pace’s direct service work has positively impacted the lives of more than 40,000 girls and over the past decade its work on impacting public systems and policies Read More

Carolyn Wall Sakata
August 11, 2021
Carolyn Wall Sakata is Chief of Staff of a newly formed family office that supports the work of the Baszucki Family Foundation. For the past 15 years, she has worked in philanthropy with family foundations at varying stages. Prior to her work with the Baszucki family, Carolyn served as Managing Director of Sunlight Giving, a family foundation created in 2014 Read More

Milton Speid
August 6, 2021
Milton Speid is an expert social impact advisor. Currently, he guides members of The ImPact, a group of visionary families committed to aligning their assets with their values towards their impact investing goals. Prior, he was responsible for executing the ”Beyond the Bay” and Eastern Region strategies that seek to support Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s (SVCF) role as global social Read More

Priscilla Enriquez
August 6, 2021
Priscilla Enriquez is the Chief Executive Officer of The James B. McClatchy Foundation. She provides leadership in strategic philanthropic investments while supporting the bedrock tenets of democracy and advancing equity in education to lift community voice and improve access to learning. Priscilla ensures that all people, especially children, have pathways to living a fulfilling life in California’s Central Valley. As Read More
Blog | Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Family Philanthropy Speaks: A Conversation with Lisa Graustein
August 4, 2021 | Lisa Graustein, Nicholas A. Tedesco
Lisa Graustein, a trustee of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund in Connecticut, brings her experience as a public school teacher and her passion for building an equitable society to the boardroom. In this Family Philanthropy Speaks conversation, Lisa talks with NCFP President and CEO Nick Tedesco about the Fund’s evolution and her own philanthropic journey. Lisa also debunks assumptions Read More
Blog | Network News

August 2021: News and Notes from NCFP’s Friends of the Family Network
August 4, 2021
Friends Focus highlights updates from members of our Friends of the Family network and their work. This month features updates from the Castellano Family Foundation, Cherng Family, Christopher Family Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Laughing Gull Foundation, Lumpkin Family Foundation,  James B. McClatchy Foundation, William Penn Foundation, and Sobrato Philanthropies. Are you a current Friend or Leadership Read More
Knowledge Center | Sample

Menu of Communication Platforms
August 3, 2021 | Stupski Foundation
This document shows the options for how the Stupski Foundation uses communications to elevate the work of its grantees. Community members and grantee partners can reach out to the foundation to collaborate through social media, the newsletter, and more. Read More
Blog | Featured Article

Building and Maintaining a Highly Functioning Board: Ginny’s Governance Checklist
August 3, 2021 | Virginia M. Esposito
About this Series In the early days of a family foundation, the donors and other enthusiastic family members tend to turn first to the excitement of grantmaking and, soon thereafter, to the practicalities of management and investment needs. Governance doesn’t often make it into the conversation right away— and that makes a certain sense. Early governance tends to be informal Read More

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