Private & Family Summit 2025

Cultivate your connections with peers in the Philanthropy Ohio network by attending the Private & Family Foundation Summit. This full-day, in-person engagement will be full of thought-provoking conversations focused on practices that advance and increase your impact. Hear about developing a strategic direction – centering your organization’s unique values and priorities – that leverages both financial investments and non-grantmaking strengths of philanthropy. Consider how your organization can deliver more significant community impact by designing your governance, grantmaking and engagement strategies to achieve lasting change. 

What you’ll take away  

• Strategies to increase impact through centering your values and priorities;   
• Understanding of how investing in your capacity and trusted partnerships can build the capacity of your grantees;  
• Exploration of how peers pivot from historical procedures and mindsets to improve operations and community change; and   
• Valuable connections to your peers in the Philanthropy Ohio network. 

Who should attend

• Individuals interested in learning how peer private foundations design their governance and grantmaking to achieve their mission;  
• Those interested in how they can advance their practice and increase their impact; and   
• Funders seeking to network with peers from other small-to-no-staff foundations. 

Please note that this program is intended to serve those at both staffed and unstaffed private and family foundations. Trustees at family foundations are invited to register members of the “next generation” who would benefit from exposure to the statewide professional network as you jointly consider succession planning and onboarding.