Grants Management Vice President

December 15, 2023
Fremont Group, the San Francisco-based private investment office for the Bechtel family, seeks an innovative and entrepreneurial grants management and operations leader to serve in the newly created Grants Management Vice President position. This role is a key position within the firm’s Integrated Philanthropy Practice, a function embedded within Client Services. The Integrated Philanthropy Practice is responsible for managing 17 Read More

Laura Herrick

December 15, 2023
Originally from small-town Texas, Laura Herrick (she/her) is fast friends with anyone who also says “y’all” in everyday conversation. She moved to the Midwest to serve as National Development Director for the US National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is more than a decade ago. She fell in love with the area, so she continued serving nonprofits in the Chicago area. Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

BIPOC Leaders Peer Network: Embracing the Marathon: Stay Engaged in Equity Work

January 18, 2024 | Dr. LaTonya Penny, Audrey Jacobs
Whether you have been tasked to lead equity efforts within your organization, or engage in equity advancement tangentially, this discussion with peers will energize you and provide insight on how, if, and when to stay engaged in equity work. Join to learn more about how your peers are navigating this work, and share your own practices and experiences. This meeting Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Rural Funders Peer Network: Connecting with Peers to Share Successes and Opportunities

February 22, 2024 | Erin Borla, Wynn Rosser
Use this opportunity to share experiences of best practices for working in rural areas, discuss tactics and strategies, and connect with funding and partnering opportunities to leverage your investments and increase impact. This conversation will focus on successes and opportunities. Please come prepared to share! Some questions to consider: What initiatives are you attempting? What are you funding? What is Read More
Blog | From NCFP

Beyond the Family: An Ecosystem Approach to Family Philanthropy

December 12, 2023 | Nicholas A. Tedesco
The success of family philanthropy is dependent on the willingness of the family to embrace an ecosystem of partners. In fact, the most effective philanthropic leaders recognize that the family operates in relationship to many others—most importantly community and staff members. Embracing an ecosystem approach to philanthropy, which focuses on building and respecting relationships to others in the system, is Read More

Deputy Director, Founder Initiatives

December 12, 2023
The Deputy Director, Founder Initiatives is an exciting, newly created role and will look to support and expand recent growth and impact of the Foundation. This a great opportunity to work with an evolving, invested, and mission driven team supporting and driving Founder ideas and initiatives. AMBFF seeks a strategic, creative, and thoughtful leader with experience in philanthropy and development Read More

Program Associate

December 11, 2023
A Program Associate with the Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation is responsible for the preliminary assessment, stewardship, and management of prospective and returning Foundation partners. Working in support of and in collaboration with Program Officers, this position is often a first point of contact for nonprofit partners, supporting the completion and assessment of preliminary applications and/or grantee eligibility. Ultimately, this position Read More

Courtney Knoblock

December 8, 2023
Courtney Knoblock is the Program Director at The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is responsible for grant making strategy and implementation including nonprofit real estate development efforts through the Foundation’s program related investments.  Prior to this position, she spent more than 16 years with the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation of Las Vegas, Nevada as Director Read More

Hannibal B. Johnson

December 8, 2023
Hannibal B. Johnson, Esq., a graduate of Harvard Law School, is an attorney, author, consultant, and the current chair of the Commemoration Fund. Hannibal is also a board member and curator for Greenwood Rising. Hannibal’s consulting work focuses primarily on diversity and inclusion, nonprofit leadership, and human relations issues. Johnson has also served as an adjunct professor at The University of Read More
Events & Webinars | Community Foundations Network

Community Foundations Topical Call: Engaging Successor Generations and Youth | Connect with Peers Based on Experience Level

Focusing on engaging successor generations and youth, this session will provide peer learning and connection based on experience with philanthropic advising for multi-generational families. Bring a challenge, a recent success or a 2024 goal to share with your peers. We will divide by experience level using breakout rooms and then have time for sharing insights learned with the larger group. Read More