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Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Non-family Staff Peer Network: Managing Up for Trust, Relationships, and Impact
February 28, 2023 | Andrea Hernandez Rodriguez, Kelly Chopus
At times there can be a tension between staff and board perspectives on divisive topics. How and when do you work to bring along the board? How do you maintain thoughtful communications with the board and the community? How do you reconcile doing the work and staying true to yourself? How do you build trust? Join us for a discussion Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Board Chair Peer Network: Fostering Healthy Communication
May 2, 2023 | Bobbi Hapgood
How do you work with your board, both individually and as a collective, to foster better communication? How do you navigate conflict, complex personalities, and engage with your family in the difficult and dynamic role of board chair? Join Bobbi Hapgood, an experienced foundation consultant, foundation executive, and board member herself to learn from her experiences and engage in discussion with Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Engaging Youth Peer Network: Getting Started
March 8, 2023 | Cadence Miller, Neil Gobioff
If you’re just getting started on engaging youth (ages 8-21) in your philanthropy, this event is for you.  We will spend time discussing how to get started engaging youth across ages, family sizes, geography and more. Join us to consider questions like: Should our youth engagement start slowly with service projects or values-based activities? Should my family create a formal Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Board Chair Peer Network: Good Governance Discussion
March 7, 2023 | Elizabeth Snowdon Bonner, Katherine Osborne Valdez
Come together with your peers for a dialogue on effective governance. We will build on NCFP’s February webinar to discuss the nuts and bolts of board governance, challenges with leading meetings, how to activate best practices, and ways to engage your own family. Please watch the February webinar recording or read the transcript in advance of the call. The final Read More
Events & Webinars | Webinars

Operationalizing Equity Practices
September 14, 2023 | Alison Upton López, Dwayne Patterson, Lorena Gomez-Barris, Angelique Power
For funders seeking to incorporate an equity lens throughout their work (and not just their grantmaking), there are many opportunities to shift internal operations towards more equitable and values-aligned practices. Yet while many families recognize the desire to make these shifts, they need further guidance around the specific decisions and considerations that will advance their philanthropy towards a more equitable Read More
Events & Webinars | Webinars

Developing a Purpose-Aligned Budget
September 27, 2023 | Suki O’Kane, Eric Stephenson, Lori Bezahler, Liz Sak
A yearly budget can appear rather cut and dry, but depending on who makes decisions about the budget and how these choices are made, there will be wide-ranging implications for the philanthropy’s grantmaking and spending policies. Budget decisions should also be informed by the collective values and purpose of a philanthropy, and not just the financial aspects. What are the Read More
Events & Webinars | Webinars

Your Impact Strategy Doesn’t Stop at Your Grantmaking
December 14, 2023 | Dr. LaTonya Penny, Meg Baesmith, Tony Macklin
While grantmaking is often the main tool funders think about in terms of impact, there are many other innovative ways to use your time, relationships, and resources to support your nonprofit partners and the communities you serve. Funders can leverage their established platform to spread the word about needed support and convene important partners, or can provide additional capacity to Read More
Events & Webinars | Webinars

Internal Evaluation and Learning
October 12, 2023 | Brittany Green Daniels, Arturo Garcia, Bruce Karmazin, Prentice Zinn
A family philanthropy has a much better chance of success if there is an intentional culture that values continuous improvement, feedback and professional development, and an integrated approach of learning and assessment across governance, philanthropic strategy, succession, and more. The assessment process asks organizations to evaluate their philanthropic purpose, governance, team, accountability, finances, and family—to answer how you can continually Read More
Events & Webinars | Webinars

Listening and Feedback: Tools to Assess Your Philanthropy
November 9, 2023 | C. Davis Parchment, Yvonne Belanger, Brenda Solorzano
How can you elicit and act on feedback from your grantees and other external stakeholders? For all funders, gathering feedback is a helpful practice to understand how your work is impacting your grantees—and how you can more deeply incorporate the perspectives and experience of your partners and communities you serve. There are a number of tools available to facilitate this Read More
Events & Webinars | Webinars

Fiduciary Responsibilities and Legal Basics in Family Philanthropy
August 16, 2023 | Jeannea Varrichio, Andrew Schulz
What are the basic fiduciary duties, governance policies, and legal responsibilities that each family philanthropy board member must understand and abide by? Join this session to better understand the fundamental and nuanced federal and state laws regulating charitable giving, including self-dealing, payout, fiscal agency, excise tax, required filings, and much more. Leading experts on family foundation tax law will make Read More

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