Tuesday, May 2, 2017
The Surdna Foundation Discusses Good Governance in New CEP Report
CEP’s advisory services team and the Surdna Foundation partnered on the occasion of the foundation’s centennial to produce a new publication that shares stories of good governance at family foundations.
Through interviews with Surdna’s CEO Phillip Henderson and board chairperson Peter Benedict II, as well as CEOs and board chairs of six other large, multigenerational family foundations, the publication — titled Family Ties: Multigenerational Family Foundation Board Engagement — explores the practices these funders have used to maintain family involvement, engage family members across generations, and focus on impact...