306 Results for “community foundations network”

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
Blog | Network News

March 2024: News and Notes from NCFP’s Members and Partners
March 14, 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. In Memoriam: Celebrating Read More
Blog | From NCFP, Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Improving Philanthropic Practice by Prioritizing Reflection & Learning
February 6, 2024 | Emerald Adeyemi, Don Chen
Family philanthropy done well can achieve lasting and meaningful change in the world and within the families themselves. To be effective, NCFP believes funders must employ four principles: accountability, equity, relationships, and reflection and learning. Despite being essential to impactful funding, a commitment to reflection and learning is often the first practice to be left behind when the day-to-day is Read More
Knowledge Center | Case Study

Effective Family Philanthropy: The Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation
January 29, 2024 | Wendy Paris, Inside Philanthropy
Grand Finale: A Family Foundation Focused on Free Concerts Announces its Spend Down On a warm Sunday in July, about 50 people sat on the grassy lawn under towering evergreens facing the Levitt Pavilion near downtown Los Angeles, listening to the band Los Del Momento play a modern take on Mexican regional Sierreño music. On stage, the sun glinted off Read More

Tonya Allen
September 22, 2023
Tonya Allen is a leader and a change agent with a passion for co-creating an equitable, sustainable world. In 2021, she became president of the McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based family foundation that advances a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive. Tonya heads a majority women, majority people-of-color senior leadership team and a diverse team of Read More

Robynn Steffen
August 30, 2023
Robynn Steffen is executive vice president at the Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI), where she is focused on building an organization that connects philanthropists to the trusted resources they need to take action on climate change—an urgent challenge that touches us all. Robynn brings more than 15 years of experience in solving complex challenges through strategic philanthropy, policy, partnerships and impact Read More
Blog | Network News

July 2023: News and Notes from NCFP’s Members and Partners
July 31, 2023
Network News highlights updates from NCFP’s members and network partners. Current NCFP members or network partners are encouraged to email us with news they would like shared with the community.  Ann Mackey Huston and Darlene Motley Elected to Fred L. Emerson Foundation Board of Directors Kristen E. Rubacka, president of the Foundation commented: “We are extremely pleased to have Darlene Read More
Blog | Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Partnership Lifecycle and Exercising Funder Responsibility and Accountability
July 25, 2023 | Nicholas Banovetz
“I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.” -Teton Sioux Tribe We’re in this together. Funders, grantees, and community. And while the dynamics of power and privilege exist, the values of collaboration, transparency, and responsibility define good philanthropy. At the Better Way Foundation, we work alongside grantees and Read More
Knowledge Center | Case Study

Effective Family Philanthropy: The Compton Foundation
May 26, 2023 | Ade Adeniji
Here’s How a Longtime Family Foundation Fractured, and Shifted Gears for a Meaningful Final Act In 1894, Missouri native William H. Danforth founded what would become Ralston Purina Company as a balanced food production company for animals. The company revolutionized the feed business with the introduction of pelletized animal feeds. By the early 2000s, Ralston Purina had merged with Swiss Read More
Knowledge Center | Case Study

Effective Family Philanthropy: The Roundhouse Foundation
May 23, 2023 | Ade Adeniji, Inside Philanthropy
How the Family Behind a Sportswear Behemoth Is Expanding Its Philanthropy for Rural Communities In 1937, Paul Lamfrom fled Nazi Germany and later founded Columbia Hat Company, a modest hat manufacturer in Portland, Oregon. When Paul passed away, the company’s reins were handed over to his son-in-law, Neal Boyle, who’d been working for him. After Neal died suddenly in 1970, Read More

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