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Kitchen Table Philanthropy: How My Immigrant Journey Informs My Philanthropy

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August 18, 2022

Dilnaz Waraich

My family, like many others is an immigrant family and we are celebrating 50 years since we immigrated to the United States. In my case, my…

Impact Investing, and What I Wish I Knew When I Started

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August 11, 2022

Meredith Lorenz Heimburger

Introduction to Systemic Challenges I started my career as a teacher with Teach For America, hoping to replicate in my classroom a version…

August 2022: News and Notes from NCFP’s Friends of the Family Network

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August 8, 2022

Friends Focus highlights updates from members of our Friends of the Family network and their work. Are you a current Friend or Leadership…

Family Foundations Collaborate for Local Grants on Climate and Equity

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July 27, 2022

John Anderson Lanier

This was originally published by Drawdown Georgia and is re-posted here with permission What if several family foundations came together…

Takeaways Blog on Participatory Grantmaking

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July 25, 2022

Daria Teutonico

This blog summarizes key notes from our June Fundamentals of Family Philanthropy webinar . Many family-led philanthropies are successfully…

Five Questions for Liesel Pritzker Simmons

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July 21, 2022

Liesel Pritzker Simmons

Anniversaries are times for reflection on and celebration of the past, as well as an opportunity to imagine the future. As the National…

Open Calls in Philanthropy: An Uncommon Approach that Can Reveal Weaknesses and Maximize Strengths

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July 14, 2022

Kathleen Simpson

This article was originally published by Mission Investors Exchange and is re-posted here with permission. In philanthropy, the open call…

July 2022: News and Notes from NCFP’s Friends of the Family Network

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July 6, 2022

Friends Focus highlights updates from members of our Friends of the Family network and their work. Are you a current Friend or Leadership…

Five Questions for Kimberly Myers Hewlett

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July 5, 2022

Kimberly Myers Hewlett

Anniversaries are times for reflection on and celebration of the past, as well as an opportunity to imagine the future. As the National…

Open Letter to Family Philanthropists: Please, Invest in Our Democracy While We Still Can

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June 24, 2022

Adrienne Bousian

“When you read about these near misses [of stable democracies staving off authoritarian threats], two factors prove decisive again and again…

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