Engaging young adults and the next generation

Emerging Family Leaders Peer Network: Listening to Shift and Share Power with Communities

Posted on June 16, 2025 by Jonathan Brack, Melinda Tuan

Join NCFP’s Emerging Leaders Peer Network to hear from the Fund for Shared Insight about the ways funders can listen and respond to their communities. Listening is critical to building meaningful relationships, sharing power with those most impacted by issues, and advancing change and equity. Learn how you can improve your philanthropy by engaging in high-quality listening and feedback practices… Read More

Emerging Family Leaders Peer Network: Philanthropy in Complex, Multi-Generational Families

Posted on June 16, 2025 by Vasser Seydel, Ashley Blanchard

Join NCFP’s Emerging Leaders Peer Network as we discuss complex family systems and how to design your family’s philanthropy to meet your goals. Whether you are navigating a generational transition, geographic dispersion, or other challenges, hear from experts how your philanthropy can be impactful and successful by balancing individual priorities and collective goals. For this interactive meeting, we encourage attendees… Read More

Emerging Family Leaders Peer Network: Overcoming Psychological Barriers to Giving

Posted on May 20, 2025 by Miki Akimoto

Join other young family philanthropy leaders as we explore the behavioral science behind the ten most common barriers to giving. Donors often face too many choices and are daunted by the complexity of what it takes to give well. They also contend with a fear of judgment, making mistakes, disrupting familial relationships, and more. Everything feels urgent, and yet the… Read More

Engaging Youth Peer Network: Orienting the Next Generation to Your Philanthropy’s Purpose

Posted on December 17, 2024

Facilitating conversations about wealth and philanthropy can be intimidating and challenging, but it is important to explain your philanthropic purpose to ground and inform next-generation youth in your work. Join us for an interactive discussion about engaging youth (ages 15–18) that will focus on the role of the staff members in this process. Attendees will join a breakout group to connect with… Read More

Evolving Your Family Philanthropy: Family Engagement and Legacy

Posted on November 19, 2024 by Lindsay Hall, Cameron Griffith, Toya Graham, Lisa Parker

How does your family philanthropy define and cultivate a legacy? What is the desired impact of your giving and who do you hope will contribute to it? At what stage do you bring participants into the work—including the next generation—and engage them in a meaningful way? We’ll explore these questions and more, and hear case studies from family philanthropies navigating… Read More

Trends in Family Philanthropy 2025 Report: Exploring the Main Findings

Posted on October 15, 2024 by Miki Akimoto, Erin Hogan, Nicholas A. Tedesco

Read the Trends 2025 report here. 🔑 Key Moments from the Webinar 4:05 Remarks from Erin Hogan, NCFP’s Board Secretary and Private Philanthropy Executive at Bank of America Private Bank, on the history of Trends 6:33 Framing remarks for the Trends presentation and insights into the topline findings 10:14 The survey methodology and the report findings on foundation identity and… Read More

Meaningfully Engaging Next-Generation Adults in Your Family Philanthropy

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Jenna Mulhall-Brereton, Cara Binder-Kopchick, Theo Avery, Nicholas A. Tedesco, Kelly D. Nowlin

The guide During this session Cara Binder-Kopchick, along with Theo Avery, Jenna Mulhall-Brereton, and Kelly Nowlin discussed guide’s critical points and shared their own experiences with navigating next-generation transitions. The guide has now been published and is available to read here. 🔑 Key Moments from the Webinar 2:00 Context from NCFP on how our network is grappling with multigenerational engagement… Read More