Susan Price serves as consultant for the National Center for Family Philanthropy. Her responsibilities include writing a series of guides for Family Foundation CEOs, as well as other writing assignments. Susan  served as Vice President of the National Center from June 2007 until June 2011. She previously served as managing director of the Family Foundation Services Department at the Council on Foundations. Before that, she had an 18-year career as a freelance writer for businesses, associations and the mass media. Her articles have appeared in such publications as Working Mother, Family Life, The Washington Post and Washingtonian, and on several Internet sites.

She is the author of Generous Genes: Raising Caring Kids in a Digital Age, and is a frequent speaker to groups around the country on the subject of instilling philanthropic values in children. Susan has been interviewed about parenting issues on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “Today,” numerous other television and radio broadcasts, and many newspapers and magazines. She has been featured in articles about philanthropy in such publications as Working Mother magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Contributions

Discretionary Grants: Engaging Family… or Pandora’s Box?

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Susan Crites Price

If you asked at a gathering of family foundation folks whether using discretionary grants is a good idea, you’d never reach consensus. Many family foundations don’t use them. Those that do have widely varied policies governing how much money is available, who is eligible to make the grants, and whether the grants must be within the foundation’s mission and guidelines… Read More
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Are you prepared to operate your family’s philanthropy in a disaster?

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Susan Crites Price

Like a lot of smaller funders, the 20-year-old McCarthy Family Foundation operated out of Treasurer Tim McCarthy’s home office. He learned a lot of important lessons about disasters the hard way after his home was among the hundreds of properties destroyed in the October 2007 San Diego wildfires. The foundation had no disaster evacuation or recovery plan. And it is… Read More