1651 Results for “community”

Events & Webinars | Webinars

Planning a Family Retreat
August 13, 2020 | Shira Saperstein, Wynn Rosser, Angie Schlater, Jennie Zioncheck, Carrie Avery
Getting your family together for a retreat is a great way to spend quality time together, as well as focus on your family’s giving with the foundation. Families use a variety of resources to build community and discuss important topics in their philanthropy. In this webinar, you will hear how foundations have designed their retreats and meeting agendas, activities for Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Non-family Staff Peer Network Event: What Questions Keep You up at Night?
January 29, 2020 | Denise Porche, Steve Toben, Kim Wright
During the NCFP 2019 National Forum on Family Philanthropy, the Non-family Staff Peer Network had great success meeting about what keeps you up at night—the most pressing challenges and questions in your role. Join the group again to continue this conversation and share your biggest current challenges. Connect with your peers to find community, solutions, and resources. NCFP’s Non-family Staff Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

All Peer Network: Responding to COVID-19 in our Communities
March 25, 2020 | Nicholas A. Tedesco, Denise Porche, Kim Wright
Please note: We have postponed our conversation “Connecting Families Across Distance” and will use this time to share and discuss our initial responses and strategies to COVID-19. This All Peer Network event, hosted by the Non-family Staff Peer Network, is open to senior leaders and board members of NCFP Friends of the Family organizations. With the sudden spread of COVID-19, Read More

Jenny Kelly
December 19, 2019
As Executive Director of the Roy A. Hunt Foundation since 2015, Jenny Kelly manages a grantmaking portfolio supporting youth violence prevention and community development organizations based in Pittsburgh and Boston, international development programs primarily in east Africa, and national environment initiatives. In addition to these four program areas, general grants are awarded in communities across the country where the trustees Read More
Blog | From NCFP

How We Give: Ten Tips for Donors and Families
December 18, 2019 | Virginia M. Esposito
Editor’s Note: It’s the giving season! NCFP originally published this piece on October 15, 2007. All of the tips and recommendations here remain as relevant today as they were then… There is a lot of justifiable attention paid these days to some of the BIG questions about philanthropy and the philanthropic process: Why give? How much to give? What to Read More

Emily Davis
December 16, 2019
Emily’s career at the Greater Washington Community Foundation began in November 2016 as a regional Donor Services Associate. Her current role as Campaign Coordinator includes development and relationship management for the annual Celebration of Philanthropy, Fund for Greater Washington, and Building Thriving Communities impact initiatives, and assisting with The Community Foundation’s Professional Advisor network (specifically the Young Professional Advisors Committee, Read More

Kyla Quintero
December 16, 2019
Kyla Quintero is the Chief Financial Officer at the Arizona Community Foundation. Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Streamlining for Equity: Your First Two Steps to Take
December 13, 2019 | Allison Gister
This piece was originally published on PEAK Grantmaking’s website and appears with permission. Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop on “Streamlining from the Inside Out” for our Southern California Regional Chapter. PEAK Grantmaking has long-championed the effort to simplify grants management processes and find efficiencies—starting with our “Project Streamline” initiative and, continuing today, through our Principles for Peak Grantmaking Read More

Alexa Cortes Culwell
December 10, 2019
Alexa Cortes Culwell has decades of experience building, managing, and advising philanthropic initiatives, as both a foundation CEO and a partner to donors shaping their strategy, implementation, learning, and legacy. As Co-founder and CEO of Open Impact, she leads an innovative team with a distinctive and holistic approach to working alongside clients at every step in their giving journey. Alexa’s Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Trust-based Philanthropy: The Durfee Foundation
December 9, 2019 | The Whitman Institute
Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series by the Whitman Institute (TWI), featuring foundations that practice trust-based philanthropy, that acknowledge the power dynamics and realities facing nonprofits, and that invite more authentic relationships and communication with grantees. This piece originally appeared on the Whitman Institute’s website and appears with permission. Since its inception in 1960, the Durfee Foundation in Los Angeles Read More

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