April 2025: Network News

NCFP strives to connect its members to resources, best practices, and to peer funders. Network News highlights updates from our members and partners, showcasing accomplishments, new approaches or giving areas, innovative ideas, and staff and board transitions, and more. 

We encourage our members and parters to email us with news that you would like to be shared.


Compton Foundation Leaves Behind Lessons

The Compton Foundation has closed its doors but leaves behind information about the six best things it ever did.

Imago Dei Foundation Outlines What it is Doing to Meet the Moment

“The message is clear: philanthropy must do more than just business as usual; we must speak out, adapt, and rethink entrenched systems,” say Emily Neilsen Jones and Ross Jones. The couple plans to double down on their core practices, make faith-based decisions, find co-funding opportunities, support grantee contingency planning, and more.

Most Powerful People Under 40

Inside Philanthropy released its latest edition of Philanthropy’s Most Powerful People Under 40, which includes several NCFP members. The editorial team determined the list by considering power as the ability to make things happen or influence others to do so.

Weissberg Foundation Exemplifies Effective Listening Practices

The Fund for Shared Insight profiled the Weissberg Foundation for its recent shift in priorities based on listening to grantee needs in addition to the way it has consistently evaluated and shifted its practices to mitigate power dynamics and build listening into its culture.