Vice President of Programs

August 20, 2025
The Heinz Endowments (“the Endowments”), a private family foundation based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, seeks a strategic and collaborative leader to serve as its Vice President of Programs (“Vice President” or “VP”). With a mission of growing an exemplary sustainable Pittsburgh region where everyone prospers and belongs, the Endowments supports a range of efforts rooted in strengthening its regional community through Read More
Blog | Network News

August 2025: Network News

August 17, 2025
NCFP strives to connect its members to resources, best practices, and to peer funders. Network News highlights updates from our members and partners, showcasing 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. Stupski Foundation Accelerates Read More

President & CEO

August 13, 2025
We seek a proven executive-level leader who demonstrates a strong ability to work collaboratively at all levels in the community, but especially in the philanthropic, governmental, nonprofit and private sectors. The ability to inspire confidence and trust, along with exceptional communications skills, is a must. A demonstrated capacity to lead the organization and community by clearly articulating the Foundation’s vision Read More
Blog | Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Using Your Voice and Influence to Complement Your Grantmaking 

August 4, 2025 | Maggie McGoldrick
Funders can use their voice and influence to amplify their grantmaking, something that is particularly important as nonprofits face a dearth of funds. From signing pledges to signal solidarity and take action to bold peer-to-peer calls to action and transparent communication, family philanthropy is using its voice to meet the moment. Conversations about philanthropy typically focus on financial assets. However, Read More

Portfolio Manager, Mental Health; Crisis Response & Climate Resilience

August 1, 2025
Company The Tepper Foundation was founded by David Tepper based on his vision that everyone should have equal opportunity to be successful. The Tepper Foundation supports organizations in New Jersey and across the country on the frontlines of protecting and expanding opportunity for all. Our work spans six portfolios: Food, Housing & Health; Community Impact; Crisis Response & Climate Resilience; Read More

Heather Barberi

July 25, 2025
Heather Barberi is the Executive Director of the Grunin Foundation, a family foundation working to unlock the potential of the Central Jersey Shore by investing in innovation, equity, and collaboration. Under the shared leadership of Heather, the Foundation’s President, Board, and dedicated staff, the Foundation advances its mission by providing holistic support through funding, capacity building, and coalition building to organizations that Read More
Blog | Effective Family Philanthropy in Action

Planning for Effective Next-Generation Engagement

July 24, 2025 | Kaky McGinness Grant, Pat Lummus
To improve its next-generation engagement and onboarding processes, the Sartain Lanier Family Foundation partnered with Grant Philanthropic Advisors to develop a ‘learning ladder’ that introduces the next generation to important skills and philanthropic knowledge and supports a smoother transition to board service.  In 2024, the Sartain Lanier Family Foundation had begun to see the impact of its recent strategic planning Read More

June L. Wilson

July 10, 2025
June Wilson, a celebrated philanthropic leader in racial justice advocacy and alternative approaches to legacy and perpetuity, is executive director of the Compton Foundation. She is guiding the 75-year-old philanthropic organization’s trajectory as it moves all of its assets toward its purpose: climate resilience, peace and security, democracy, reproductive justice, and narrative strategy. To that end, Wilson is shaping the Read More