29 Results for “strategic lifespan peer network”

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Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: Insights from the Kendeda Fund
October 24, 2023 | David Brotherton, Dena Kimball, Anne Marie Toccket, Priscilla Enriquez, Glen Galaich
Every family foundation that has decided to sunset has a unique spend down journey. But every family foundation learns throughout that journey. The Kendeda Fund has committed to spending out the remainder of its assets and ending grantmaking operations by the end of 2023. Since their founder, Diana Blank, began her philanthropic journey nearly 30 years ago, Kendeda has worked Read More
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Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: The Spend Down Journey—Timing is Everything
June 6, 2023 | Rhonnel Sotelo, Anne Marie Toccket, Priscilla Enriquez, Glen Galaich
The length of the spend down journey varies from foundation to foundation. The nature of decisions also varies depending on the length of time remaining in the foundation’s lifespan. What is top of mind at the different times of the spend down journey? What can a spend down foundation with more than 10 years remaining learn from a foundation with Read More
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Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: Spending Down—Trade-offs and Opportunities
February 7, 2023 | Anne Marie Toccket, Laurel Randi, Priscilla Enriquez, Glen Galaich
When a family makes the decision to spend down their philanthropic resources, that is just the beginning to many other decisions that affect the impact of the family’s giving. Trade-offs will need to be made related to staffing, investments and grantmaking. How can one maximize the opportunities that spending at a faster payout rate provides? How can one minimize missed Read More
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Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: Formulating Grantmaking Strategies with a Spend Down Mindset
July 11, 2022 | Gwyneth Tripp, Misty Avila
Once the decision has been made to spend down, foundation leaders must determine how their grantmaking efforts will need to change. How do you curate your programs and support and engage grantees during this spend down process? How does your impact or portfolio shift? Join Misty Avila, chief impact officer at the James B. McClatchy Foundation, and Gwyneth Tripp, director Read More
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Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: Investing with an End in Sight
May 12, 2022 | Emilie Cortes, Karie Dewan, Priscilla Enriquez
Planning to spend down is financially complex. It can be tough for board and staff to predict the financial future of the work. How do you plan for the funding needed for staffing, operations, and multi-year investments? While planning, how can you best make decisions to maximize the financial and social impact of your dollars? Join Emilie Cortes, trustee of Read More
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Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: Spending Up, Committing to Increased Assets for Increased Impact
March 29, 2022 | Colleen O’Keefe, Pat Sauer
How are you thinking about your foundation’s assets, the challenges and inequities in our world, and supporting timely problems? In 2021, the Sauer Foundation shared, “the assets of the foundation would increase from $28 million to $100 million, and that amount would be invested in the community over the next 10 years.” This foundation’s gift to spend up and make Read More
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Strategic Lifespan Peer Network Retreat
October 28, 2021 | Laurel Randi, Priscilla Enriquez, John Esterle, Glen Galaich, Marcus F. Walton
Learn with your peers from foundations who are considering or who have decided to spend down. This retreat will feature inspirational conversations, field-building and peer connections, case studies, and learning with a peer on the final stages of spending down. The sessions included will be: A Conversation about the Changing Field with Marcus Walton, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, interviewed by Read More
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Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: Participatory Grantmaking
July 14, 2021 | Ibrahima Thiam, Lynda Mansson
How can we shift power and engage others in our decision-making process? How can we listen more effectively and support collaboration in our grantmaking? Join this important conversation with MAVA Foundation Director General Lynda Mansson and Ibrahima Thiam, executive director of Wetlands International Africa and a MAVA partner. They will be discuss how MAVA, a spend down foundation, has embraced Read More
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Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: Using Systems to Achieve Sustainable Success
April 28, 2021 | Brian Collier, David Peter Stroh
Why do social systems resist our best intentions to improve their performance? How can you use systems thinking to achieve sustainable system-wide impact by taking both the short and long term consequences of your decisions into account? Join field expert David Peter Stroh for a conversation with Brian Collier, Executive Vice President of the Foundation for the Carolinas. Brian has Read More
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Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: A Conversation with the Hazen Foundation
January 25, 2021 | Cristina Jiménez, Lori Bezahler
Join President Lori Bezahler and Board Chair Cristina Jiménez from the Edward W. Hazen Foundation, a private foundation established in 1925 that is committed to supporting organizing and leadership of young people and communities of color in dismantling structural inequity based on race and class. Learn from the board and staff of this spend down foundation committed to equity and Read More

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