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Effective Family Philanthropy: The Compton Foundation
May 26, 2023 | Ade Adeniji
Five Practices the Compton Foundation Has Embraced to Achieve Its Goals Bringing in forward-thinking leaders. Compton’s first executive director wasn’t brought in until the late 1980s. Since then, they’ve had three. Their first ED encouraged practices like multiyear grants and reading books about equity in philanthropy. Embracing a spend out. It wasn’t immediate and it wasn’t without fireworks. But Compton Read More
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Effective Family Philanthropy: The Tarsadia Foundation
May 26, 2023 | Ade Adeniji
Five Practices the Tarsadia Foundation Has Embraced to Achieve Its Goals Bringing in all the family. Some foundations incorporate several family members into leadership roles to drive the agenda. But Tarsadia Foundation is a three-generation operation that involves upward of 50 family board members in total. Mixing service and philanthropy. Rather than just give out grants from a distance, family Read More
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Effective Family Philanthropy: The Perrin Family Foundation
May 23, 2023 | Ade Adeniji
Five Practices the Perrin Family Foundation Has Embraced to Achieve Its Goals Changing location. Once based in their hometown of Ridgefield, the Perrin Family Foundation moved to New Haven, Connecticut so that it could be closer to the communities it now serves. Bringing in the younger generation from the start. When Sheila and Charles Perrin established their foundation, they immediately Read More
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Effective Family Philanthropy: The Roundhouse Foundation
May 23, 2023 | Ade Adeniji, Inside Philanthropy
Four Practices Roundhouse Foundation Has Embraced to Achieve Its Goals Creative placemaking. Roundhouse Foundation strongly believes in investing in its local creative economy. This includes standing up and running its own artist residency, Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture, on a 260-acre working ranch. Meeting communities where they are. Rural organizations are often forced to travel to city-based Read More
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Effective Family Philanthropy: The Sobrato Family
May 17, 2023 | Ade Adeniji
Five Practices Sobrato Philanthropies Has Embraced to Achieve Its Goals Multiple grantmaking structures. Sobrato Philanthropies has many grantmaking tentacles. The broader family engages in collective work through the Sobrato Family Foundation. And several branches of the family each have their own donor advised fund to conduct more personalized giving in areas like climate change and social justice. Bringing in the Read More
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Effective Family Philanthropy: Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation
May 17, 2023 | Ade Adeniji
Five Practices the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation Has Embraced to Achieve Its Goals Place-based grantmaking. RPDFF makes grants in cities with personal connection to the family —Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Tacoma, Washington. Staff keep their ears to the ground including Executive Director Shawn Escoffery, who personally shows up to local events in L.A., not as a staffer Read More
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Executive Summary—Philanthropy in Complex, Multi-Generational Families: Balancing Individual Preference with Collective Purpose
April 12, 2023
Researchers from Lansberg Gersick Advisors consider how the family foundation’s design and operation is informed by—and informs—the family’s philanthropic activities that take place outside of it. The purpose of this study is to help families understand how they can design their family philanthropy to best meet their goals.    The study’s standout finding was that the creation of a robust family Read More
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Full Report—Philanthropy in Complex, Multi-Generational Families: Balancing Individual Preference with Collective Purpose
April 12, 2023 | Wendy R. Ulaszek, Ph.D., Ashley Blanchard
Researchers from Lansberg Gersick Advisors hypothesized that families’ abilities to work together effectively in their philanthropy is dependent not only on the way they design their collective family foundation, but also in how they structure the philanthropic activities outside of it. From 2018-2022, they conducted surveys and interviews and found that as families evolve, they face common dilemmas regarding their Read More

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