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New Year’s Resolution – Give Boldly, Give More, Give Now

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January 10, 2022

Miki Akimoto

New Year’s resolutions may be 4,000 years old, and probably just as old is the tradition of breaking those resolutions all too soon after…

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

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January 7, 2022

Friends Focus highlights updates from members of our Friends of the Family network and their work. This month features updates from the…

Family Philanthropy Versus Climate Change: An Opportunity of a Lifetime and Beyond

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January 5, 2022

Katherine Lorenz

At the United Nations’ COP26 conference in November 2021, President Biden said climate change is “an existential threat to human existence…

Announcing our 2022 Fundamentals of Family Philanthropy Webinar Series

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December 29, 2021

We’re excited to announce our 2022 Fundamentals of Family Philanthropy webinar series with the NCFP community. The monthly webinar series…

Engaging Parents and Guardians in Youth Philanthropy

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December 27, 2021

Sheryl Seller

Earlier this month we shared the Sillerman Center’s ongoing youth philanthropy research as it relates to COVID-19, based on The State of…

How You Collaborate Will Shape The Impact You Have (Part 3 Of 4)

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December 22, 2021

Debi Blizard Zoe True

In this space the primary reason people come together to collaborate is to have a positive social impact and this was readily apparent in…

Will COVID-19 usher in a new era of collaboration in philanthropy?

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December 21, 2021

Rachel Korberg Nicholas A. Tedesco

The Families and Workers Fund is a new donor collaborative that includes a mix of private, corporate, and family foundations pooling…

Philanthropy with Purpose Drives Lasting Change

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December 15, 2021

Nicholas A. Tedesco

This article was originally published by the Center for Effective Philanthropy and is re-posted here with permission. Change is borne of…

Youth Philanthropy During COVID-19 and the Success of Hybrid Programming

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December 9, 2021

Sheryl Seller

At the Sillerman Center , we think about youth philanthropy programs as those that support young people making grants directly to nonprofit…

Takeaways Blog on Engaging the Next Generation

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December 6, 2021

Jen Crino

This blog summarizes key notes from our November Fundamentals of Family Philanthropy Webinar . Multigenerational families use varying, and…

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