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Trustee Essentials for Foundations

Sector: Foundation

Trustee Essentials for Foundations

Like all leaders, foundation trustees need specific tools to be effective. Learn the legal and investments basics of running a foundation, tackle governance issues such as setting direction and operating effectively as a board, and explore key issues foundation leaders should know to prepare for the future. This session is geared to new or seasoned … Continued

Fostering a Learning Culture in Family Philanthropy

Family foundations can be isolated institutions. Too often, trustees have few opportunities to learn how to do their jobs well; they rely on limited data sources, like grant applications, financial reports, and the occasional site visit. But there are learning resources all around us if we can just figure out how to use them. In … Continued

Building a Collaborative Culture

What can we learn from the experiences of grantmakers who have been intentional about ensuring that their organizational culture advances, rather than undermines, collaboration? Oftentimes, the most advanced collaborations comprise organizations that have systems, infrastructure, and policies in place that allow them to effectively engage with partners to effect change. In this session, we will … Continued

Capacity Building 3.0: Recasting the WHO, WHAT, and HOW of Increasing Social Sector Impact

This session will familiarize participants with CB 3.0, a targeted capacity-building process and framework grounded in the notion that building the capacity of all actors in any social sector ecosystem depends on the development of “relational capacity.” Only when funders invest in learning with nonprofits on the front end of capacity-building initiative design can it … Continued

Shine a Light: The Role of Consultants in Fostering a Learning Culture at Foundations

Why do foundations use consultants? Noticeably absent on the list of reasons is learning—yet learning is a particularly important attribute for foundations that grapple with complex issues in dynamic environments. This webinar will help you understand how to be more explicit about the value of fostering a learning culture in your foundation within the context … Continued

Families Funding Change: How Social Justice Giving Honors Our Roots and Strengthens Communities

This webinar, presented in partnership with the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, will explore strategies family foundations can take to engage more deeply in grantmaking that builds toward long-term social change. The webinar will draw from case studies highlighted in NCRP’s new Families Funding Change report as well as the real life experiences of family … Continued