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The Family Giving Lifecycle: Governance

Building a Framework for Decision-Making

This primer will help you and your family to establish clear decision-making principles, policies, and practices to ensure long-term success in your philanthropic endeavors.

It includes worksheets to help you apply the concepts to your work as well as a playbook that you can create with your family to codify decisions and plan your course of action. Use this primer to establish or refine a governance framework for your family philanthropy.

The Family Giving Lifecycle primers are available to NCFP Members and Network Partners.

For more resources on governance practices, please visit the resource library

Watch the Strengthening Governance and Family Dynamics Explainer Video

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