Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Impact Investing for Advanced Practitioners Peer Network: Building the Right Team

October 15, 2025
In this session we will discuss how to identify and partner with the right advisors and recruit staff with the experience and skills required to advance the foundation’s impact investing strategy. More details about this session are forthcoming. If you are not yet a member of the Impact Investing for Advanced Practitioners Peer Network, you may join and be notified Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Emerging Family Leaders Peer Network: Overcoming Psychological Barriers to Giving

July 17, 2025 | Miki Akimoto
Join other young family philanthropy leaders as we explore the behavioral science behind the ten most common barriers to giving. Donors often face too many choices and are daunted by the complexity of what it takes to give well. They also contend with a fear of judgment, making mistakes, disrupting familial relationships, and more. Everything feels urgent, and yet the Read More
Blog | Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

How Your Foundation’s Records Can Measure Impact, Manage Risk, and Promote Transparency

May 19, 2025 | Bob Clark
Your foundation’s information is an asset and managing that information with record and knowledge management—and perhaps an archives program—can help you preserve your family’s legacy, ensure that you’re complying with legal requirements, make your impact clearer, and help you live into values like accountability and transparency. While foundations have different goals that may inform their individual approach to information governance, Read More

Bob Clark

May 19, 2025
Bob Clark is the director of archives at the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) where he leads a talented team of archives professionals who manage and make accessible the RAC’s extensive archival collections documenting the history of philanthropy and its effects. He also engages with the RAC’s records-creating organizations and with the foundation community more broadly to advocate for information governance, Read More

Sarah Elbert

May 14, 2025
Sarah joined the Foundation team in 2019 as Communications Manager. Named Director of Communications in 2022, she leads the Foundation’s design, planning, and implementation of the legacy and sunset communications strategies. Her public-facing projects include the Foundation’s archival website, a commemorative book for the Clark family, Foundation staff and grantee partners, and the Clark Foundation Legacy and Program Space at Read More

Ashley Davis

May 14, 2025
As Chief Operating Officer, Ashley provides oversight of the Foundation’s operations, grant administration, performance measurement and communications. She leads the implementation of the Foundation’s grant management system and grantmaking processes, as well as the development of the Foundation’s performance measurement and communications strategies. Ashley has served in various roles in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors over the past 20 years Read More

Portfolio Manager, Family Philanthropy

May 13, 2025
We are seeking a driven, adaptable, and experienced grantmaker to join our growing team as a Portfolio Manager for Family Philanthropy. This role is focused on helping three small, family-led philanthropic organizations elevate their impact. We’re looking for a grantmaking generalist who can manage a diverse set of grants across issue areas such as early childhood, STEM education, scientific research, Read More

Head of Operations

May 13, 2025
​​We are seeking a seasoned leader to help us architect and implement the next chapter of building out our operations—someone who brings deep operating experience in philanthropy and beyond, and who can help us build the systems, structure, and clarity needed to sustain and scale our impact over time. This is a unique opportunity for an individual who has run Read More

Cameron Griffith

May 12, 2025
A fifth generation member of the Andrus family, Cameron Griffith has served on the board of the Surdna Foundation since 2016.  From 2000-2006, Cameron was a founding board member of the Andrus Family Fund, and he was its first board chair. Since 2003, Cameron has been the Congressional Affairs Liaison for the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. Highlights of Read More

Toya Graham

May 12, 2025
Toya Graham serves as executive director of the Carolyn W. and Charles T. Beaird Family Foundation and is responsible for daily operations under the direction of the Foundation President, Nicole Seawall. Toya has an extensive administrative background in educational organizations and contributes a valued perspective within the Foundation. She works alongside the Foundation leadership implementing activities that align with the Read More