Building a Framework for Decision-Making
This primer will help you and your family to establish clear decision-making principles, policies, and practices to ensure long-term success in your philanthropic endeavors.
It includes worksheets to help you apply the concepts to your work as well as a playbook that you can create with your family to codify decisions and plan your course of action. Use this primer to establish or refine a governance framework for your family philanthropy.
The Family Giving Lifecycle primers are available to NCFP Members and Network Partners.
Watch the Strengthening Governance and Family Dynamics Explainer Video
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Related Resources
- The Family Governance Pyramid: Enhancing and Guiding Your Family Philanthropy
Helps you to build cohesive strategy by aligning your family’s foundational principles with specific policies and day-to-day philanthropic practices.
- Building the Board Your Foundation Deserves: The Governance Checklist
This guide introduces and describes a checklist of governance-related questions you will likely want to address with your board.
- Demystifying Decision Making in Family Philanthropy
This guide examines the kinds of decisions that family foundations face and provides guidance on when and how to adopt different decision-making methods.
For more resources on governance practices, please visit the resource library.