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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With families growing ever more varied, foundations and donor-advised funds need clear advice and guidance regarding who participates in their philanthropy and in what roles.
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The impact of family foundations will be felt far and wide in the next decade, with billions of dollars coming into Detroit and the region. The Detroit News features several CMF members that are making a difference.
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In this post from the GrantCraft Blog, authors Naomi Wright and Wadsworth Williams share their experience participating in the Andrus Family Fund's Board Experiential Training (BET) program. This program is designed to introduce 18-24 year-olds to philanthropy and prepare future board members by building an awareness of social justice issues.