1651 Results for “community”

Kathleen Simpson
August 10, 2020
Kathleen Simpson is the Chief Executive Officer of The Russell Family Foundation, where she collaborates with the board to guide the Foundation’s strategic planning, programs and community affairs, and oversees the Foundation’s impact investing. She has extensive experience with both for-profit and nonprofit industries, and the financial advising of many entities, including deep involvement in operations. Kathleen previously served as Read More

Neeraj Mehta
August 10, 2020
Neeraj Mehta has spent the past two decades working to advance racial, social, and economic justice in neighborhoods and communities across the Minneapolis-St.Paul area. Trained as a civil engineer, he quickly pivoted to the field of community building and development after confronting the realities of racial and economic inequality in our region. Since 2012, Mehta has served as the director Read More
Blog | Network News

August 2020: News and Notes from NCFP’s Friends of the Family Network
August 5, 2020
Friends Focus highlights updates from members of our Friends of the Family network and their work. This month features updates from the Castellano Family Foundation, Gambrell  Foundation, Hilton Foundation, David Rockefeller Fund, and Tykeson Family Foundation.  Are you a current Friend or Leadership Circle member of NCFP with an update or good news about your foundation that you would like to share Read More
Blog | Case Studies

The Evolution of Family Philanthropy: The David Rockefeller Fund
August 4, 2020 | Maggie McGoldrick
The name Rockefeller often conjures up images of wealth and influence. The founders of Standard Oil and magnates of the banking industry, the family is known worldwide for generations of success in business and politics. However, since 1855 when John D. Rockefeller, Sr. gave his first philanthropic gift, the family has harnessed its name for a far greater legacy—social impact. Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Exceptional Times Call for Exceptional Responses
July 30, 2020 | Megan Reilly
The Clowes Fund Executive Committee March and April 2020 were scary days. Most of the country had shut down to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The news was filled with heartbreaking stories of patients sick from COVID-19 and people who were suddenly unable to buy groceries or pay rent. Foundation board and staff members were not immune; most of Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

For Weissberg Foundation, Trust-Based Philanthropy Starts With Internal Culture-Building
July 29, 2020 | Hanh Le, Shaady Salehi
This article was originally published by the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project and is re-posted here with permission. Join us on October 6 for a webinar to learn more about trust-based family philanthropy.  The Weissberg Foundation in Arlington, Virginia is a justice-oriented family foundation that has always leaned on its values to drive its grantmaking. In 2016, Hanh Le took the helm Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

We are Beginning an Overt Shift Towards Equity…and Donors are Joining Us
July 23, 2020 | Sarah Indyk, Anita Wesley
Over the past several years, Rose Community Foundation has been on a path of increasingly aligning our work in pursuit of equity and justice. Recent killings of Black people and the disproportionate negative impact of COVID-19 on people of color shine a bright light on the importance and urgency of this shift, even as they highlight just how far we Read More
Events & Webinars | Webinars

The Future of Family Philanthropy: Positioning Families for Greatness
December 10, 2020 | Nicholas A. Tedesco, Kimberly Dasher Tripp
Philanthropic families are expanding their impact, knowledge of the field, and becoming increasingly sophisticated in their giving. There is further demand for philanthropic guidance and resources as donors and their families leverage multiple philanthropic vehicles, engage the next generation, and look to increase their payout rates or even spend down. NCFP President and CEO Nick Tedesco has spent the last Read More

Sarah Indyk
July 20, 2020
Sarah Indyk is Vice President of Philanthropic Services at Rose Community Foundation. In her role, Indyk leads and champions the Foundation’s work to support and enhance the philanthropy of generous people, to steward nonprofit endowments and to build a culture of place-based and intergenerational philanthropy in the Greater Denver region. Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

The Homestead Foundation Moves Boldly and Urgently
July 14, 2020 | Shannon Cofrin Gaggero
We are living through a moment of grand scale reckoning. COVID-19 has disproportionately and negatively impacted the health of Black and brown communities; financial and educational disparities are exposed along clear racial lines; state violence and violence by white vigilantes against Black people have inspired sustained uprisings all over the country. Certainly, our country stands before a crossroads and so Read More

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