Cultivating A Healthy Family Culture
Webinar
Board members, staff, advisors, and donors in family philanthropy.
Description
The health of a family is often defined by its culture. Creating connections, positive relationships, and a lifetime of closeness takes ongoing effort and reflection. The Andrus and Forbes families have for many years been thoughtful about traditions, systems, cycles, and family governance. Learn more about their stories in our recent Passages Issue Brief, “Family Culture: Creating a Resilient Family Tree”, and join this special webinar featuring multigenerational family examples for how to create a vibrant family culture that allows your family giving to flourish.
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Featured speakers
Jamie Forbes, CAP®, is the founding Partner of Forbes Legacy Advisors. Jamie created Forbes Legacy Advisors after observing that families crave similar support and expertise to nurture their family unit as there is to support their financial assets. Forbes Legacy Advisors focuses on the human dynamics of legacy planning and fortifying a family culture that reflects their values and builds family solidarity. Their work focuses on building trust and supporting clear communication and includes family governance, philanthropy, beneficiary education, inter-generational engagement, family enterprise succession planning and more.
His work is driven by curiosity and is underpinned by his ability to help clients understand that their success in sustaining a strong family fabric is critical to maintaining and building financial wealth over generations. A highly intuitive and a natural connector, Jamie grew up in a multi-generational New England family imbued with a strong sense of belonging, good fortune and a deep understanding that with privilege comes responsibility.
Jamie lives in Portsmouth, NH with his wife and two daughters.
Gilbert Miller serves as the Board Chair of the Bradley-Turner Foundation, a 5th generation foundation. He has been involved with the work of the Beloco Foundation for over a decade and a half, formally joining as a trustee in 2000. The grandson of its founder of Beloco, Gilbert has prioritized defining the foundation’s mission and strengthening governance. He is also a trustee of W.C. Bradley Company, Epworth-by-the-Sea, and Andrew College. Gilbert is also the board chair of the Southeastern Council of Foundations. While not in the boardroom, Gilbert manages Kimi Farms Christmas Trees and is working on a series of children's books based on his life in the South. A graduate of the University of Georgia, Gilbert continues to be involved at his alma mater, serving on the Dean’s Council of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. He and his wife, Jamee, have two sons, William (5) and Benjamin (2).
Kelly Davenport Nowlin, a fifth generation member of the Andrus family, was elected as a Surdna Foundation trustee in 2010. She chairs the committees of the Andrus Family Program (AFP) and Centennial Working Group. As chair of the AFP, Kelly is responsible for outreach to, and engagement of close to 500 living descendants of Surdna founding patriarch, John E. Andrus. Kelly also was responsible for guiding the development of activities marking Surdna’s 100th anniversary.
Prior to her board service at Surdna, Kelly was a founding board member of the Andrus Family Fund (AFF), an independent grantmaker launched by Surdna in 2000 as a grantmaking fund for fifth generation family members. She helped develop the fund, including program areas, governance and bylaws, mission and strategic vision, and committees of the board. Kelly served as Vice Chair, then Co-Chair for four years of her seven year term.
Kelly is a board member of the National Center for Family Philanthropy, and was appointed an NCFP Fellow in 2018.
Currently, Kelly is Principal of KDN Philanthropy Consulting, and advises family foundations and non-profit organizations on next generation engagement, governance, organizational culture and communications strategies. Kelly is an honors graduate of Boston College with a BA in Communications and currently lives in Hopkinton, Massachusetts with her husband and two teenage children.
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