Multi-faceted Giving
This content collection was curated to help answer those questions and allow your philanthropic family to better accommodate diverse systems of giving.
Giving Structures
Finding the Right Vehicles to Reach Your Philanthropic Goals
Grantmaking, the heart of your philanthropic journey, brings your intent and objectives to life. In simple terms, grantmaking is the act of awarding funds to an organization or individual to undertake charitable activities.
The reality, however, encompasses a great deal more. You may find yourself amid a thicket of potential recipients as you seek the ones best-suited to your goals and capacity.
Grantmaking involves identifying, evaluating and communicating with grantee organizations. It is, moreover, a way to learn about issues and communities that capture your attention, apply those lessons in your philanthropy and create an enduring legacy for you and your family.
The following collections have been carefully curated by NCFP and thought leaders in family philanthropy to help you at this specific step of your journey, and guide you onto the next.
Download the Giving Vehicles and Structures Overview Guide.
Splendid Legacy 2: Creating and Re-Creating Your Family Foundation
NCFP is pleased to make individual chapters of Splendid Legacy 2: Creating and Re-Creating Your Family Foundation available online in PDF format as an exclusive benefit for current NCFP Friends of the Family. The beautiful hard-cover edition of Splendid Legacy 2 also makes a great gift for family members and is a valuable reference and resource for foundation staff! Friends
Policy Central: Sample Policies and Practices
NCFP's Policy Central includes sample policies and practices in the areas of governance, grantmaking, family dynamics, engaging the next generation, investments, management, and staffing. New samples are added frequently, and are here when you need them!
Family Philanthropy and Donor-Advised Funds
Families face choices when it comes to how to do their philanthropy. They give in different ways using different vehicles. Over the past 20 years an increasing number of donors and families are choosing donor-advised funds (or DAFs, for short) as the primary vehicle for meeting their philanthropic goals. This online guide is for donors and families considering donor-advised funds,
Giving While Living: Profiles of Donors and Families
Giving While Living — the idea that people with wealth should use it during their lifetime to help others — is central to the work of a growing number of donors, including Atlantic Philanthropies’ founder Chuck Feeney, who has been a leading spokesperson in this movement to inspire individuals at varying levels of wealth to actively give their funds, skills
Strategic Lifespan and Limited Life Foundations
This NCFP Content Collection is aimed at new donors considering what strategic lifespan will best work for their foundation, as well as existing foundations that have already set a closing date, or any family or board contemplating the question.
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