3 Months, 3 Lessons Learned: My Time at NCFP
Lexi Laginess describes her NCFP internship as an incredibly rewarding experience. Read More
Lexi Laginess
December 10, 2018
Lexi Laginess is an undergrad at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) studying nonprofit management. Fun fact: she has been on the Steve Harvey show! She also loves to-do lists, greyhounds, youth philanthropy, and Oolong tea. Connect with her on LinkedIn. Read More
Katie Scott
November 27, 2018
Katie Scott was a Program Director at the National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP) from 2017-2023. In her role, Katie managed NCFP’s Peer Networks. She connected the NCFP community to resources, tools, and peers. She also supported and helped to design sessions and aspects of all signature NCFP workshops and training programs. Prior to this role, Katie has served the Read More
Lisa Parker
November 27, 2018
Lisa Parker brings 30 years of experience in philanthropy and nonprofit management to her work with philanthropic families. Since 1997 Lisa has been President and Executive Director of the Lawrence Welk Family Foundation, leading the Foundation’s initiatives to address poverty and seed the youth giving movement and creating youth philanthropy programs for the family’s 4th generation. In 2009 Lisa founded Read More
Foundations Partnering to Raise the Next Generation of Philanthropists
October 23, 2018 | Susan Crites Price
From a community foundation standpoint, teaching philanthropy at a very early age is part of donor development. Read More
Ana Gonzalez
September 11, 2018
Ana became a philanthropist and grant maker when her great aunt and great uncle formed the Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation, a family foundation dedicated to helping nonprofits in the South Texas area. She is currently a board member, in charge of community relations, and youth philanthropy development for her family’s foundation. Ana graduated from Texas Christian University with a Read More
What Does Your Family Need Your Foundation (or DAF) to Be?
August 16, 2018 | Tony Macklin
Whether your tool is new or handed down, functional or fixable, the important questions are: Is it the right tool for the job now? Do you want it to last? If so, will it still be useful in 20 years or more? Read More
Social Justice Funders Opportunity Brief
April 3, 2018 | The Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy
Social Justice Funder Opportunity Briefs explore complex social justice challenges and investigate specific funding opportunities that address those challenges. This is the second brief in this series, and it focuses on democratic and inclusive youth-led grantmaking in the United States. Read More
Honoring the Different Generations: The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation
March 26, 2018 | Elaine Gast Fawcett
When Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez discovered gas and oil on their ranch on the border of Mexico and Texas, they became multimillionaires overnight. However their values didn’t change. Read More
How do we work with our local community foundation to train young philanthropists?
December 15, 2017 | Youth Philanthropy Connect, National Center for Family Philanthropy
Our family foundation would like to work with the local community foundation to set up a program that will help train younger philanthropists – both those in our family as well as other youth in the community. Do you have suggestions for models that others have used? Indeed we do! NCFP worked with Youth Philanthropy Connect, a former initiative of Read More
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