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The Power of Urgency – The Eckerd Family Foundation

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Jason Born

Organized from its inception as a limited life foundation, the Eckerd Family Foundation took a bold and strategic approach to using its assets to create significant change on issues affecting young people, including juvenile justice, foster care, and education… Read More

Advocacy and Family Philanthropy: Leveraging Limited Dollars for Impact

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Aaron Dorfman, Abby Levine, Ashley Smith Juarez, Jenny Straub Corrigan, Regina McGraw

Why do family foundations choose to invest in these strategies to advance their mission? What kinds of impacts are they achieving, and how do they measure success? What legal parameters guide their advocacy grantmaking?… Read More

Great Grants: Cook Family Foundation

Posted on June 25, 2012

Tom Cook of the Cook Family Foundation shares his great grant story that sparked the foundation’s strong commitment to early childhood programs. Thanks to the Council of Michigan Foundations for sharing this video from their “Great Grants” member profile series. … Read More

Aging America and Why it Matters to Your Mission

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Carol Farquhar, Rob Mayer

Aging influences nearly every aspect of our communities and nation; regardless of your funding interests, older adults are increasingly relevant to your work. … Read More

Building Trust to Promote Community Collaboration

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Dave Joseph, Elizabeth Jordan

Problems in a community can be hard to solve when the people involved don’t communicate with each other because of their conflicting values across religious, cultural, political, social and other divides. … Read More

Engaging Stakeholders for Better Grantmaking

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Courtney Bourns, Mary Walachy

We hear more and more these days about working with grantees as partners. But how is that really done? And does it truly make the work of your foundation more effective?… Read More

Family foundations and advocacy: Making your grant dollars go further

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Abby Levine

Abby Levine reviews the various activities that constitute advocacy and describes why foundation support for advocacy is so important. She explains the legal rules governing such activity, outlining the types of activities family foundations may legally fund and those they may do themselves… Read More

How a Family Foundation Employs Shareholder Activism

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Lance Lindblom, Laura Shaffer

The Nathan Cummings Foundation has been consciously following a strategy of attempting to influence the companies in which they are invested around key areas of concern to the Foundation for several years… Read More

Creating Social Change Through Your Family’s Philanthropy

Posted on April 13, 2006 by Alison D. Goldberg, Jamie Schweser

'Social change philanthropy', a term often applied to philanthropy that tries to address the root causes of societal inequalities, is being embraced by family philanthropists of all generations. … Read More

Unlocking The Power Of The Proxy

Posted on October 22, 2004 by Conrad MacKerron

There is no such thing to my mind . . . as an innocent stockholder. He may be innocent in fact, but socially he cannot be held innocent. He accepts the benefits of the system. It is his business and his obligation to see that those who represent him carry out a policy which is consistent with the public welfare… Read More

The Power of Urgency – The Eckerd Family Foundation

Advocacy and policy

The Power of Urgency – The Eckerd Family Foundation

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Jason Born

Advocacy and Family Philanthropy: Leveraging Limited Dollars for Impact

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Aaron Dorfman, Abby Levine, Ashley Smith Juarez, Jenny Straub Corrigan, Regina McGraw

Great Grants: Cook Family Foundation

Posted on June 25, 2012

Aging America and Why it Matters to Your Mission

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Carol Farquhar, Rob Mayer

Building Trust to Promote Community Collaboration

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Dave Joseph, Elizabeth Jordan

Engaging Stakeholders for Better Grantmaking

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Courtney Bourns, Mary Walachy

Family foundations and advocacy: Making your grant dollars go further

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Abby Levine

How a Family Foundation Employs Shareholder Activism

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Lance Lindblom, Laura Shaffer

Creating Social Change Through Your Family’s Philanthropy

Posted on April 13, 2006 by Alison D. Goldberg, Jamie Schweser

Unlocking The Power Of The Proxy

Posted on October 22, 2004 by Conrad MacKerron

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