Community Foundations
Business Plan & Model: Donor Services Plan
Posted on February 16, 2007
Donor Event Example: The Philadelphia Foundation
Posted on September 11, 2006
Sharing Values Effectively Across Generations
Posted on August 10, 2006 by Sharna Goldseker
Sometimes it can be tough to communicate values across generations even if the only thing that changes is the vocabulary. Although at heart we know that members of our family share values, defining and verbalizing a shared philosophy can take a special effort… Read More
Maximizing Returns: Mission Related Investing
Posted on June 8, 2006 by Luther M. Ragin Jr., Sharon King
By divorcing grantmaking from investment strategies, many foundations use only a small portion of their fiscal power and influence in trying to make an impact for good… Read More
Raising Charitable Children
Posted on July 13, 2005 by Kathryn Agard
Kathryn Agard, long-time executive director of Learning to Give, shares some of the steps that parents can take to help their children become philanthropic and provided examples of what parents can do for their preteens (10-12) and teenagers (13-18) to involve them in family philanthropy… Read More
Growing to Give: Instilling Philanthropic Values in Teens and Preteens
Posted on June 28, 2004 by Darlene Siska
The teenage years can be the most tumultuous ones—particularly for parents! Parents may want their children to become charitable for any number of reasons: to prepare them to take formal leadership one day of the family’s foundation or other giving vehicle; to participate in philanthropy as a family activity; or to develop charitable natures as an antidote to the possibility… Read More
Family Foundations: High Risk, High Reward
Posted on July 29, 1999 by Paul Ylvisaker
Foundations are a remarkable human invention. They provide private persons a free-wheeling opportunity to be socially and publicly influential. Without having to meet the tests either of the market or the ballot box, private persons can independently determine what the needs of society are and how best to go about meeting them… Read More
Paul Ylvisaker: Ethics and Philanthropy
Posted on July 26, 1999 by Paul Ylvisaker
This chapter is excerpted from “Philanthropy: The High Estate,” part IV of Conscience & Community: The Legacy of Paul Ylvisaker, which was edited by NCFP Founder and President Virginia Esposito and published by Peter Lang Publishing in 1999. Questions addressed in this chapter include: Is there an ethical requirement to give, and if so, how mucb, and in what form?… Read More