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Avoiding Conflicts of Interest and Self-Dealing for Family Foundation Boards
Federal law regarding conflicts of interest and self-dealing at foundations can be complex and confusing.
A Date Certain: Lessons from Limited Life Foundations
The limited life approach in philanthropy has received increased attention in recent years. But across foundations, perpetuity is often still seen to be the default, and there is considerable uncertainty about the practice of spending down.
11 Tips for Foundations Interested in Getting Involved in OZs
The Opportunity Zone program, a new federal tax incentive intended to attract investments to low-income communities, is quickly rolling out across the U.S., as funds and states develop strategies to facilitate investments.
The 2020 Giving Landscape
The sector has evolved in the wake of COVID-19, racial injustice, partisan tension, and economic challenges. How have the events of 2020 altered the pace, method, and effectiveness of donor response?
Across the Returns Continuum
This resource offers a framework for investing across the returns continuum—from commercial investments to philanthropic grants.
Next Gen Philanthropy: Finding the Path Between Tradition and Innovation
Next-Gen Philanthropy: Finding the Path Between Tradition and Innovation, consider a series of questions that every next-generation donor should carefully consider, as well as recommendations based on the past experiences of other next-generation donors.
Essentials of Impact Investing: A Guide for Small-Staffed Foundations
This Guide shows how foundations of all sizes can now tap into the resources, expertise, and capacity they need to become successful and skilled impact investors.
The Future of Impact Investing
This report sets a high-level vision for the future of the field of impact investing.
Impact Investing Guide
This report is a starter resource for this interested in exploring the possibilities of impact investing.
Impact Investing: At a Tipping Point?
This 2018 briefing provides data gathered from a survey of affluent and high-net-worth people who give to charity to understand their interest in, knowledge of and experience with impact investing.
Lasting Impact: The Need for Responsible Exits
The report reveals investors’ strategies to strengthen their ability to meet liquidity objectives and ensure the long-term impact of their investments.
Perpetuity or Limited Lifespan: How Do Family Foundations Decide?
This report presents the full range of study findings, which are based on survey responses from 1,074 family foundations.
Pride of Place: Sustaining a Family Commitment to Geography
How has place-based family philanthropy evolved over time? This resource is a study of place-based foundations and funds. A place-based foundation or fund is committed—often exclusively—to a particular geographic region of the country.
In Pursuit of Equity: A Family Foundation’s Story
The article covers how the family foundation worked with its board to not only evaluate their foundation's tradition in grantmaking but also discover new ways of working, with a keen focus on remaining responsive in their pursuit of equity.
A Short Guide to Impact Investing
This guide is intended to help bring newcomers into the impact investing game.
Supporting Vulnerable Children and Families
This report shows that our nation now faces five “new realities” that are redefining who we are, where and with whom we live, and how we provide for our own welfare, as well as that of our families and communities.
Why Family Foundations Lose Their Way
This is a report on who family-owned foundations lose their way.
Trends 2020
Trends 2020 provides an update to NCFP’s 2015 Trends in Family Philanthropy Study, and includes new information on trends in areas such as transparency and community engagement, founder involvement, strategic lifespan, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in family philanthrop
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