265 Results for “youth philanthropy”

Blog | Voices from the Field

Nesting to Achieve Impact: Lessons for Family Funders from a National Foundation
October 26, 2021 | Daniel Widome, Deepti Sood
Family funders are regularly seeking opportunities to amplify their impact in the communities in which they live, work, and serve. Although they may not always have the scale or scope of larger national foundations, all family funders can still draw many lessons from larger funders about how to anchor their giving at the community level. TCC Group evaluated the Annie Read More
Blog | Network News

October 2021: News and Notes from NCFP’s Friends of the Family Network
October 5, 2021
Friends Focus highlights updates from members of our Friends of the Family network and their work. This month features updates from the Bainum Family Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Delaplaine Foundation, General Service Foundation, Haas Jr. Fund, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Libra Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Nord Family Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Robins Foundation, and Walton Family Foundation. Read More

Rebecca Trobe
September 24, 2021
Rebecca Trobe, Psy.D., works at the intersection of money and meaning, family and leadership. In addition to her long tenure as an executive coach, Rebecca has spent many years within the family office, family wealth and family foundation space working with families and their advisory teams on multi-generational transitions related to wealth, generational succession, governance, stewardship and philanthropy. Rebecca employs Read More
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Why and How Family Foundations Can Advance Equity Through Participatory Measurement
August 13, 2021 | Lymari Benitez, Yessica Cancel, Mary Marx, Katie Smith Milway, Teddy Thompson
Courtesy of Pace Center for Girls  The recent investment by MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett in funder coalitions Fund for Shared Insight and Equitable Evaluation Initiative—both dedicated to increasing participant feedback in evaluation—is the latest vote of support for gathering evidence of program impact in ways that engage program participants as experts in assessing their own experience. Participatory evaluation (PE), Read More

Carolyn Wall Sakata
August 11, 2021
Carolyn Wall Sakata is Chief of Staff of a newly formed family office that supports the work of the Baszucki Family Foundation. For the past 15 years, she has worked in philanthropy with family foundations at varying stages. Prior to her work with the Baszucki family, Carolyn served as Managing Director of Sunlight Giving, a family foundation created in 2014 Read More

Lisa Jackson
August 6, 2021
Lisa Jackson is the Managing Partner for the Imago Dei Fund based in Boston, MA. Lisa has worked in the social sector for over two decades in a variety of roles. She began her career in education and psychology as a professor at Boston College. Her research there was focused on agency and self-efficacy in youth at the intersection of Read More

Priscilla Enriquez
August 6, 2021
Priscilla Enriquez is the Chief Executive Officer of The James B. McClatchy Foundation. She provides leadership in strategic philanthropic investments while supporting the bedrock tenets of democracy and advancing equity in education to lift community voice and improve access to learning. Priscilla ensures that all people, especially children, have pathways to living a fulfilling life in California’s Central Valley. As Read More

Jessyca Dudley
July 29, 2021
Jessyca Dudley has more than two decades of experience working to transform and democratize philanthropy. Beginning as a volunteer at her church’s food bank, and later as the founder of the American Cancer Society’s youth board in Chicago, Jessyca officially began her career in philanthropy in 2013 as the Gun Violence Prevention program officer for the Joyce Foundation. In this Read More
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Looking Ahead: Featuring NCFP Peer Network Co-chairs
July 22, 2021 | Katie Scott
Courtesy of Jopwell from Pexels The National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP) activates and connects a diverse and engaged community of philanthropic families and partners and seeks to foster unique opportunities for learning and inspiration. A hallmark of our work and area for growth in our future is our Peer Networks. Peer Networks are peer-led groups for a specific role Read More

Sheridan Lorenz
June 17, 2021
Sheridan Lorenz is a resident of Austin, Texas, though she has deep roots on Galveston Island. Spending summers in Galveston, she recalls the festive celebrations of Juneteenth on the island. Sheridan has had a lifelong concern with social and racial inequities. From 2005 to 2012 she initiated several programs in Galveston: An affordable and low-income home building project in collaboration Read More

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