Family Members and Donors

Family Staff Peer Network: Benefits and Challenges of Staffing Your Family’s Foundation

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Dan Estes, Aimee Boone Cunningham

Serving in a lead staff role at your family’s foundation comes with meaningful responsibilities and unique challenges. While each family is different, having conversations with others who are related to the donor family and also serve in a staff capacity at a family philanthropy can be rewarding and refreshing. To facilitate these conversations, NCFP is re-launching the Family Staff Peer… Read More

Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: Supporting Transformative Change: The Fred and Barbara Erb Family Foundation

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Melissa Damaschke, John Erb

Driven by a desire to address urgent needs and create lasting change in a shorter time frame, the Fred and Barbara Erb Family Foundation decided in 2022 to spend down its assets by 2034. Join Board Chair John Erb and President Melissa Damaschke to hear what they have learned from the first three years into their 12-year sunset process. Learn… Read More

Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: How Limited Life Foundations Are Responding to Today’s Philanthropic Landscape

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Kate Ritter Repen, Anne Marie Toccket, Priscilla Enriquez

Reductions in federal funding and social services have created immense challenges for the nonprofit sector. How are limited life foundations, and those considering spending down, responding? Have foundations reconsidered their grantmaking strategies or adjusted other core practices? For those already on the path to spend down, has the current situation affected their spend down timeline or process? Learn from the… Read More

Impact Investing for Advanced Practitioners Peer Network

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Kathleen Simpson, Stacey Faella

The Impact Investing for Advanced Practitioners Peer Network provides a space for collaborative learning, sharing of investment opportunities, and consultation on challenges, helping members navigate the complexities of aligning investments with mission-driven goals. Join us for the inaugural session to meet peers who are also actively engaged in impact investing, learn more about the network, and discuss future topics. If… Read More

Application Deadline: 2025 Impact Investing Learning and Action Cohort

Posted on March 6, 2025

Impact Investing Learning and Action Cohort Overview  The Impact Investing Learning and Action Cohort is designed for family philanthropies that want to move from conversation to implementation of impact investing strategies—whether they actively manage investments or rely on outsourced chief investment officers or advisors to do so.  This cohort will help participants build the knowledge and capacity to integrate impact… Read More

Application Deadline: 2025 Emerging Family Leaders Learning and Action Cohort

Posted on February 20, 2025

Becca Randall and Spencer Woolfolk at the 2024 National Forum on Family Philanthropy
Emerging Family Leaders Learning and Action Cohort Overview  The Emerging Family Leaders Learning and Action Cohort is an opportunity for emerging leaders to develop core knowledge about family philanthropy, connect and learn with peers in similar roles, and grow leadership skills.  Beginning with an in-person learning experience and continuing virtually, this multi-session cohort will follow a curriculum designed to prepare… Read More

Responding to the Opioid Crisis: What are the Opportunities for Funders to Make a Difference?

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Kimberly Lindsay, Krishna J. Chari, Psy.D, Crystal Smallwood, Karen A Scott, MD, MPH, Erin Borla

The opioid epidemic continues to be a major public health crisis affecting both rural and urban areas. In 2023 alone over 80,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose. Communities face specific challenges in dealing with this crisis based on their location. These challenges include prevention methods, immediate services provision, and ongoing treatment. All funders – not just those focused on health… Read More

2025 Family Philanthropy Leadership Retreat

Posted on January 17, 2025

Thank you so much for your interest in the Leadership Retreat. The event is sold out, and we are no longer accepting names for the waitlist, due to the unlikelihood of accommodating everyone on it already. We are delighted by the response, and we regret that we have to turn anyone away. Please keep an eye on our programs and… Read More

2026 National Forum on Family Philanthropy

Posted on January 13, 2025

The The 2026 National Forum on Family Philanthropy will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from November 4 to November 6, 2026. NCFP’s National Forum on Family Philanthropy brings philanthropic families and leaders together for two and a half days of peer networking and thought-provoking conversations led by some of the greatest thought leaders in family giving. A mix of plenary… Read More

Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation: Investing in Partners to Ensure the Foundation’s Mission Lives On

Posted on December 19, 2024 by Sarah Elbert, Ashley Davis, Kate Ritter Repen, Joe Del Guercio

The Clark Foundation is nearing the conclusion of its decade-long sunset strategy. The foundation, founded in 1987, began its 10-year $1.3B spenddown in 2016, partnering with organizations to educate future engineering leaders, support veterans and their families, and expand opportunities for the Washington, DC community. Currently in its final year, the foundation remains focused on ensuring that their partners have… Read More

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