Blog | Network News

April 2024: News and Notes from NCFP’s Members and Partners

April 17, 2024
NCFP strives to connect its members to resources, best practices, and to peer funders. Network News highlights updates from our members and partners, showcacsing accomplishments, new approaches or giving areas, innovative ideas, and staff and board transitions, and more.  We encourage our members and parters to email us with news that you would like to be shared. Dilnaz Waraich and Read More
Events & Webinars | Community Foundations Network

2024 Community Foundations Family Philanthropy Network Workshop

September 17, 2024
About the Workshop What The Community Foundations Family Philanthropy Network Workshop is an opportunity to learn from your peers and build professional skills. The workshop will include both skill-building sessions on topics top of mind for community foundation staff who work with philanthropic families, and time for networking with peers from community foundations across the country. Where The workshop will take Read More
Blog | From the Archive

From the Archive: Things We Wish Our Founders Had Told Us

April 11, 2024
NCFP’s From the Archive series highlights resources from our Knowledge Center that have stood the test of time and continue to provide valuable guidance for the field.  In 2016, 20 years after the death of her father, Susan Packard Orr reflected on the challenges of interpreting donor legacy. Susan wrote that, after asking her father to share what he wanted Read More

Managing Director of Programs

April 3, 2024
The Sarofim Foundation (SF) seeks an experienced foundation or nonprofit leader with a proven track record of leading impact in the community. The Managing Director of Programs (MDP) will be a person of high caliber and high character who will take a disciplined approach to building a dynamic, partner-driven organization. The MDP will work with the Executive Director as a Read More

Managing Director of Finance

April 3, 2024
The Sarofim Foundation (SF) seeks an experienced foundation or nonprofit leader with a proven track record of leading impact in the community. The Managing Director of Finance (MDF) will be a person of high caliber and high character who will take a deliberate approach to building a dynamic, partner-driven organization. A successful candidate will embody relentless optimism and humility. The Read More

Gia Rauenhorst

April 2, 2024
Having worked for over 10 years in program efficacy in PK-12 education systems, Gia Rauenhorst brings a great deal of passion and background knowledge with her about improving the lives of children wherever she goes. Most recently the Senior Data Analyst for the New Haven School District in Union City, California, Gia focused on building statistical analysis skills and knowledge Read More

Director of Impact Operations

April 2, 2024
The Director of Impact Operations (Director) is a new role and serves as a key partner and right hand to the Managing Director (MD). The Director owns and advances critical cross functional capacities, systems, and resources ensuring that initiatives have the right level of support and technical assistance in place to achieve envisioned impact. The ideal leader will be a Read More

Chief Executive Officer

April 2, 2024
After an exceptionally long, creative, and joyful partnership with transformative leaders, The Durfee Foundation has embarked upon planned leadership transitions and seeks a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The CEO will lead a family- and community-oriented organization that is primed to thrive in its next evolution. Reporting to the Board of Directors – composed of multigenerational family members and community Read More
Blog | From NCFP, Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Know Your Neighbors: Building Trusting Relationships in Family Philanthropy

April 1, 2024 | Erin Borla, Sokol Shtylla
Collaboration and partnership are the cornerstones to accomplishing meaningful impact on pressing social issues. But both are difficult to come by due to the inherent power imbalance that exists in philanthropy, where funders control resources needed to support the wellbeing of communities. Trust is required to foster collaborative partnerships between funders and grantees. But how can trust occur if you Read More

Vice President of Investments and Administration

April 1, 2024
The Vice President of Investments and Administration (VPIA) is a critical partner to the CEO. The VPIA is the top financial and administrative position with responsibility for overall financial management, formulating financial policy and plans, investment oversight (the Foundation’s assets currently exceed $400 million), human resources, and other administrative responsibilities. The VPIA leads a team of two direct reports in Read More