Does It Matter?
This is a guest post by NNCG Member Hank Goldstein, Founder of Family Foundation Management/Counsel LLC. The post was originally published on his blog on June 7, 2016. As reported June 2nd in…
Share What You Know and Start a Virtuous Cycle
This is a guest post by Lisa Brooks, Director of Knowledge Management Systems at the Foundation Center and a co-founder of the IssueLab research aggregation and knowledge sharing service for…
Moderating a panel? Think of it as hosting a dinner party!
This is a guest post by NNCG member Thaler Pekar of Thaler Pekar & Partners. It is posted here with her permission. Be a Party Planner Discuss conversational logistics ahead of…
5 Keys to Build Teamwork in Family Giving
This is a guest post by NNCG member Dawn Franks, of Your Philanthropy. It is posted here with her permission. Henry Ford said “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together…
Grantmakers are Free to be Bold
This is a post by NNCG Steering Committee member Mary Phillips of GMA Foundations. It was originally published on the Boston-based Associated Grant Makers’ blog. Recently we witnessed a grant…
Key Questions for Choosing Family Foundation Consultants
Finding the right consultant for a family foundation may seem intimidating at first. How do you know what to look for? How do you find the person or firm with…
How Consultants Can Support a Family Foundation’s Life Cycle
Much like the individuals who create them, family foundations move through several stages of growth and development as the years pass. And much like individuals, foundations require different types of…
Five Elements of Successful Philanthropy-Consultant Partnerships
When philanthropy consultants work together to serve and support funders, they can help their funder clients, the broader field, and themselves gain and share knowledge, understand and leverage a broader…
Benefits and Challenges of Consulting Partnerships
Foundations and nonprofits often work in partnership with one another, but what about the consultants that support their work? Little has been written about the ways in which different consultants…
Consultants as Cross-Pollinators for Foundation Learning
In many ways, consultants to philanthropy are like bees, bringing ideas from one source to another for cross-pollination of thinking. Jared Raynor, Ashley Blanchard and Marieke Spence of the TCC…