Susan Price
1101 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 220
Washington, DC 20036
susan@ncfp.org
- The Value of Family Philanthropy in a Democracy
- Raising Charitable Children
- Leadership and Governance
- Effective Family Foundation Boards
- Succession Planning
- Navigating Transitions in a Family Philanthropy
- Values, Vision and Vitality
- Thinking and Re-Thinking Your Philanthropic Goals
- Multi-generational Philanthropy
- Options and Opportunities in Family Philanthropy
- Involving the Next Generation
- How Professional Advisors Can Help Families with Their Philanthropy
Our senior staff are among the nation’s leading speakers on issues related to family philanthropy.
Susan Crites Price is Vice President at the National Center for Family Philanthropy. Formerly, she was the managing director of the Family Foundation Services Department at the Council on Foundations for four years. Previously, she had an 18-year career as a freelance writer for businesses, associations and the mass media. Her articles have appeared in such publications as Working Mother, Family Life, The Washington Post and Washingtonian, and on several Internet sites.
She is the author of The Giving Family: Raising Our Children To Help Others (Council on Foundations, 2001, revised 2003), and is a frequent speaker to groups around the country on the subject of instilling philanthropic values in children. With her husband Tom, Susan co-authored The Working Parents Help Book (Peterson’s, 1994, rev. ed., 1996), a practical guide to juggling kids and careers. It won a Parents’ Choice Award and was a selection of the Scholastic Book Club. She also co-authored The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Child Safety (Macmillan, 2000).
Susan has been interviewed about parenting issues on “Oprah,” “Today” and numerous other television and radio broadcasts and by many newspapers and magazines.
For two years, she and Tom wrote the weekly “Working Parents Lifeline” column, which was distributed by the New York Times Service and published by more than 60 newspapers. The Prices’ weekly “Working Solutions” column has been carried by the Family Planet and Disney’s Family.com online services.
She has been featured in articles about philanthropy in such publications as Working Mother magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Chronicle of Philanthropy.