Family Foundation
The National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP) Series offers a monthly webinar with rotating topics focusing on family philanthropy. CMF partners with NCFP to provide our family foundation members complimentary access to these learning opportunities.
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Learn how two foundations are engaging families to support impact investing initiatives. Get insight on what steps you should take to educate your board and how to determine where to invest funds.
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What are new emerging issues facing philanthropic donors and families? How are families’ funding priorities, governance practices, and approaches to giving and decision-making evolving and changing? How are issues of founder participation, choice of lifespan, and the use of multiple giving vehicles affecting the practices and outcomes of family philanthropy?
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Whether your foundation is considering wrapping up a long-term initiative or completely spending down and sunsetting your foundation, this webinar will provide valuable ideas and approaches. Hear from field experience how to navigate this complex and challenging process to maximize the potential for impact while leaving grantees and fields strong.
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How can families with multi-faceted philanthropic efforts – those with multiple foundations or funds, who are also using impact investing and other creative strategies – develop governance systems and structures that accommodate this complexity?
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Each of us has our own money story – the underlying assumptions, messages, hopes, and behaviors that we’ve learned over time about the meaning and use of money. Those stories are also influenced by increasing online data about family wealth and public skepticism of concentrated wealth.
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Join your fellow family foundations on the shores of Lake Huron on Mackinac Island at Mission Point Resort for an interactive, fun, educational, and relaxing retreat! Within a retreat theme, the program committee designed breakout sessions based on the results of the evaluations that family foundation members completed during the fourth quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019.
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The definition of the American family has morphed alongside an explosion of diversity. Today, homes with unmarried parents, same-sex couples with adopted children, and single parents are as increasingly common as the traditional family of a married husband, wife, and child.
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Foundation boards play an important role in foundation leadership and performance. This webinar will highlight challenges that foundation boards and executives are facing and discuss the board development levers that are most related to stronger board and foundation performance.
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How do board chairs and CEOs develop and maintain their partnerships? How do family foundation board chairs and CEOs build a relationship of trust and bridge the divide between physical distance, differences between staff and family member roles, and continue the work of the foundation during times of transition?