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Suzanne Skees is director and board chair for the Skees Family Foundation, a member of the Council on Foundations. This blog first appeared on the Skees Family Foundation blog.
Editors Note. Since the publishing of this blog post, the Central Florida Foundation is no longer managing the distribution of donations to the OneOrlando Fund. The Foundation will now be administering the Better Together Fund. Read the full statement from the Foundation at www.cffound.org.…
Vikki Spruill
Former President and CEO
Council on Foundations
Vikki Spruill is the former President and CEO of the Council on Foundations. She is the current President & CEO of the New England Aquarium.
She has a long record of advancing the philanthropic sector. In 2003, she helped…
Travel Information
Summit Location
The San Francisco Foundation
1 Embarcadero Center #1400
San Francisco, CA 94111
Hotel Information
Le Meridien San Francisco
333 Battery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
The discounted room rate cut-off date has passed. There are…
The Innovation Conference will bring together philanthropists, private foundations, community foundations, corporate foundations and CSR professionals to explore how emerging technologies can be used for social good. Join Silicon Valley Community Foundation in uncovering how technology is…
https://cof.org/blogs/re-philanthropy/2013-03-06/participating-conversation-help-reduce-gun-violence
The statistics are hard to ignore, and you may already be familiar with many of them. In 2010, guns took the lives of more than 31,000 Americans in homicides, suicides, and unintentional shootings. This is the equivalent of more than 85 deaths each day and more than three deaths each hour. …
The 2016 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Survey is now open. This survey and the resultant reports are valuable benchmarking tools designed specifically to collect compensation and benefits data for positions at community, private (family and independent), and public foundations, and other staffed…
Giving USA 2016 was released this week and found that overall U.S. charitable giving from all sources—including individuals, bequests, foundations and corporations—reached an estimated $373.25 billion in 2015. This was an all-time high for the second consecutive year.
This increase…
Peter Brach is the international development advisor for the Brach Family Charitable Foundation.
In response to the horrific attacks in Orlando, Council President and CEO Vikki Spruill and Board Chair Sherry Magill penned an open letter reaffirming the Council’s commitment to advancing diversity, equality, and inclusion in and beyond the philanthropic field, and to continue serving as a…