Community foundations are trusted, professional advisors to philanthropic families and a valuable source of local knowledge and insights. This webinar will focus on how community foundations work with family donors to clarify their values and motivations, shape their philanthropic strategy and identify their philanthropic objectives – in a way that supports the community and place-based efforts.
About this series
This program is part of the Spark Session series under NCFP’s Community Foundations Family Philanthropy Network. The series is designed for community foundations to exchange practical advice, tools, and tips from peers on aspects of their family philanthropy engagement. In one hour, this content-rich webinar feature peer case study examples and will allow attendees to delve deeper through an open facilitated dialogue.
Featured speakers
Kim Wright serves as Director of Philanthropic Services at the Seattle Foundation, where she specializes in helping people develop personalized strategic giving plans and greatly enjoys working with multiple generation families. Drawing on her 17 years of experience in youth philanthropy leadership, she is heavily involved in The Seattle Foundation’s Youth Grantmaking Board and Alumni Network. Born and raised in Seattle, Kim grew up around the water and has a strong affinity for the health of the Sound. Kim’s commitment to local organizations is driven by relationships in the community. She has actively volunteered with over 70 nonprofit organizations in King County. She currently spends her time advocating for Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest on their Board of Advocates and she supports international organizations helping women and girls. Kim is a certified trainer and early adapter of 21/64’s multigenerational tools and approaches to philanthropy consulting.
Elizabeth Sullivan brings deep knowledge on national trends, strategy, and best practices in private philanthropy and corporate giving. In March 2015, Liz joined the National Center for Family Philanthropy as Program Manager to launch the two-year Family Philanthropy Through Community Foundations initiative, designed to enhance the effectiveness of families working with community foundations as their giving partners. From 2006 to 2013, Liz worked at the Council on Foundations, a nonprofit membership association of grantmaking foundations and corporations. Most recently, Liz was Managing Director of Corporate, Independent, and Family Philanthropy where she stewarded a portfolio of ~850 members and led a change management process to integrate and unify member products and programs aimed to strengthen organizations and leaders in philanthropy. During her tenure at the Council, Liz led signature projects including the Disaster Philanthropy Network; a Corporate Philanthropy Initiative that resulted in the seminal guide,Increasing Impact, Enhancing Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Leading Corporate Philanthropy; and “Philanthropy Solutions: Promising Practice in Corporate Giving,” a set of peer-learning activities that facilitates knowledge sharing among corporate philanthropy leaders.