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Blog | Voices from the Field

Knowledge Philanthropy: Engaging Donors in Community Needs
July 27, 2016 | Laily Pirbhai
The Calgary Foundation understands the importance of our 3 key roles: donor stewardship, effective grantmaker, community leader…but what’s our why? What do we believe? After sixty years of serving philanthropy for the benefit of community, we’ve learned our knowledge of community issues and needs represents the distinct value we bring to donors - that’s our biggest asset. Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Giving as a Family: My Family’s Use of a Donor-Advised Fund Through Our Community Foundation
June 21, 2016 | Rosie Abriam
A donor-advised fund (DAF) provides the donor(s) the opportunity to provide a tax-deductible gift to benefit the organizations and issues that the donor(s) care about most. Working with the community foundation has been great for our family because they provide management and support including handling the paperwork attendant to tax-deductions. Read More
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How Can Community Foundation Staff Prepare for and Manage Family Dynamics?
June 25, 2015 | Audrey Jacobs, Rob MacPherson
This month we are delighted to feature a question recently asked during our June webinar, Ten ways philanthropic families work with community foundations. This webinar provides reminders, tips, and peer advice for families, donors, and community foundation staff along with the stories of how two donor families have made the most of their long-time relationship with their local community foundation. The featured presenters are Lauren Amos from the Wish Foundation, David Barrett from the Gene B. Glick Company, Audrey Jacobs from The Center for Family Philanthropy for The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta; and Rob MacPherson from the Central Indiana Community Foundation. Read More
Blog | Featured Article

Where there is community, there is fellowship
May 27, 2015 | Angie Hong
An increasing number of family foundations, community foundations, and regional associations are utilizing fellowship programs as a complementary strategy for meeting their charitable giving missions, while also seeking to expand local philanthropic leadership by building capacity in individual community members. Family foundations may decide to start a fellowship program for any of a number of reasons, including... Read More
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Stone Soup: Community Based Advocacy at the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
February 26, 2014
A Conversation with Nancy Leonard, David Nee, and Carmen Siberon of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund on Community Based Advocacy Children and storytelling have always been at the heart of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund. It is only fitting that one of their most successful programs, “Stone Soup,” is rooted in a classic children’s story. Family Giving News recently interviewed Read More
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The Irwin Sweeney Miller Foundation Creates an Enduring Legacy by Effecting Community Change
November 15, 2013 | Alice Buhl
This month’s Family Giving News feature article is excerpted from the newly released Passages Issue Brief detailing the story of the Irwin Sweeney Miller Foundation, whose third generation board members made the strategic decision to spend down with assets of approximately $25 million. The ISMF story is different from many spend down stories in two important ways: First, the decision Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Giving while living: Emmett Carson, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation
September 15, 2013 | National Center for Family Philanthropy
Editor’s Note: The National Center is delighted to partner in 2013 with the Bridgespan Group to share videos from its Conversations with Remarkable Givers series. In this month’s installment, we feature Bridgespan’s interview with Emmett Carson, founding CEO of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Carson has long been one of the field’s most prominent supporters for the power and flexibilty of community Read More

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