Community Foundations
Greater Good Lessons from Those Who Have Started Major Grantmaking Organizations
Posted on April 16, 2019 by Center for Effective Philanthropy
Greater Good: Lessons from Those Who Have Started Major Grantmaking Organizations distills insights gleaned from those interviews, offering guidance for a new wave of philanthropic leaders as they seek to build thriving grantmaking organizations that can best support nonprofits to achieve shared goals… Read More
Donor-Advised Fund Impact Story: Using a DAF to Donate Rare Items
Posted on March 15, 2019 by Central Indiana Community Foundation, Audrey Jacobs
The story of two rare watches, the inventor of cruise control, and a charitable gift to establish a family's philanthropic legacy… Read More
Donor-Advised Fund Impact Story: Helping Geographically Dispersed Family Foundations Give Locally
Posted on March 15, 2019 by Elaine Gast Fawcett
With three generations of family leadership spread across four states and two continents, the O.P. and W.E. Edwards Foundation faces a common challenge — keeping its far-flung board members engaged connected to its grant making… Read More
Donor-Advised Fund Impact Story: Continuing a Legacy, Connecting to Community
Posted on March 15, 2019 by Elaine Gast Fawcett
It was a death in the family that inspired Gary and Sue Schwartzman to think about donor-advised funds for the first time. “When my father in law S.J. Schwartzman passed away and left these two funds in our charge, it connected us to his legacy. He wished for his generosity and family name to live on,” says Sue Schwartzman… Read More
Donor-Advised Fund Impact Story: Ending Poverty through Multiple Giving Vehicles
Posted on March 15, 2019 by Elaine Gast Fawcett
Anne Guerrant is a former pro tennis player, and a founder of the Women’s Tennis Association with Billie Jean King and other women’s rights pioneers. Today, she is a global philanthropist with both a family foundation and donor-advised fund dedicated to lifting women and their families out of poverty… Read More
Donor-Advised Fund Impact Story: Creating a Family Opportunity
Posted on March 15, 2019 by Central Indiana Community Foundation
The Smith family's donor-advised fund with the Central Indiana Community Foundation's Legacy Fund focuses on four core areas of community improvement: breaking the cycle of poverty, access to quality healthcare, higher education, and animal conservation and environmentalism… Read More
Pride of Place: Sustaining a Family’s Commitment to Community
Posted on March 14, 2019 by Virginia M. Esposito, Gilbert Miller, Kelly Chopus
What does it mean to have “pride of place”? How do giving families retain their commitment to the founding region or community where their philanthropic resources were first created? How can family foundations and funds accommodate increasingly disparate personal interests among those serving on the board while staying true to the original geographic focus of the donor family? These questions… Read More
Community Foundations Family Philanthropy Network Topical Call: Ideas for the 2019 National Forum (March 2019)
Posted on March 12, 2019 by Katie Scott
Network members share what they'd like to get out of the Communities Foundation Workshop at the National Forum… Read More
Powerhouse Convening: New Doorways to Funder and Community Engagement
Posted on March 12, 2019 by The Giving Practice
The guide offers 10 doorways to deepening group engagement, with specific exercises within each to test out with your teams… Read More