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Strategic Lifespan Peer Network Retreat

Date: October 28,2021
Start Time: 12:00 pm
End Date: October 28,2021
End Time: 4:00 pm
Timezone: US/Eastern
Duration: 4 hours
Where:

Virtual

Who:

Board members and senior staff of family foundations who are considering or have decided to spend down.

Learn with your peers from foundations who are considering or who have decided to spend down. This retreat will feature inspirational conversations, field-building and peer connections, case studies, and learning with a peer on the final stages of spending down. The sessions included will be:

The James B. McClatchy Foundation (JBMF) declared its intention to sunset in 2016, but did not embark on its journey until 2019. It began with setting values, building internal capacity, piloting grantmaking strategies, and curating key critical conversations with the community, board, and staff. Early in its sunsetting stages, JBMF will share insights gleaned from this very active learning, doing, and questioning process. The Foundation is projected to sunset in 2030.

The McCune Foundation will share about capacity building, capitalization, and grantee support. Their guiding principle to “Finish well the things we start” is implemented through strengthening capitalization of nonprofit partners.  The Foundation Sunset Grants deal with Big Ideas, Sunset Clusters, Concept Testing, Readiness and Ending Well. The Foundation will sunset in 2029.

John will share reflections on being in the final months of the spend-down process, and answer questions of his experience.

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