Benefits for WPN Members

10 Reasons to Join WPN

1. Quality Programming 6. Free Research 2. E-Newsletters 7. Professional Development

3. Resourceful Website 8. Print and Online Publications

4. Annual Meeting 9. Networking

5. GuideStar Charity Check 10. Access to NCFP Digital Library WPN currently has 113 member organizations, with over 500 grantmaking staff. Member organizations consist Programming Customized Research of private foundations (family, independent, and corporate), WPN’s professional development Often faced with a shortage corporate giving programs, opportunities provide valuable of staff resources to conduct community foundations, donor- training that enhances the skills research, WPN members value advised funds, charitable trusts, grantmakers need to be effective and actively utilize this service. higher education foundations, and efficient funders. Frequent requests include: healthcare foundations, and • Community Briefings • Charity Check Reports individual philanthropists. • Funder Roundtables • Member Listserv Inquiries • • • • Grantmaker Boot Camp • Policy & Procedure Samples • It’s Just Lunch • Board Self-Assessment Tools Collectively, these members • Financial Assessment • Decision-Making Rubrics grant over $600 million annually. • Webinars • Investment Policies

“Professionally and personally, the membership and information shared through networking and ideas/opinions have been very beneficial.”

Marybeth Cottrill, CFP, The Northern Trust Company Network with other WPN Member Organizations: Community Foundations Potawatomi Hotel & Casino Siebert Lutheran Foundation, Inc. Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Quarles & Brady LLP Suzanne & Richard Pieper Family Foundation Region Rexnord Foundation, Inc. Tate Family Foundation Community Foundation of Chippewa County The Brookby Foundation Community Foundation of North Central WI TASC The Catholic Community Foundation Community Foundation of Southern WI The Northern Trust Company The George L.N. Meyer Family Foundation Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation UW Health The Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation, Inc. Eau Claire Community Foundation We Energies Foundation The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fond du Lac Area Foundation Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. The Richard & Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Fort Atkinson Community Foundation WPS Health Insurance Theodore W. Batterman Family Foundation Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Vine & Branches Foundation, Inc. Greater Foundation Donor-Advised Fund Weiss Family Foundation Incourage Cindy Tang Charitable Fund WHEDA Foundation Madison Community Foundation Fund for Lake Michigan Ziegler Family Foundation Marshfield Area Community Foundation Harry G. & Charlotte H. Slater Family Fund Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Susie Stein & Children Donor Advised Fund Federated Fund Racine Community Foundation The Brico Fund United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Stateline Community Foundation Waukesha County Higher Education Foundation Stoughton Area Community Foundation Jewish Community Foundation Carroll University Waukesha County Community Foundation Gateway Technical College Foundation Healthcare Foundation Whitewater Community Foundation Madison College Foundation Children’s Hospital of Corporate Foundation/Giving Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Froedtert Hospital Program The Medical College of Wisconsin Operational Foundation A.O. Smith Foundation Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Greater Milwaukee Business Foundation Alliant Energy Foundation UW Foundation on Health, Inc. American Family Mutual Insurance Company Family or Independent Foundations Kohler Foundation, Inc. Badger Meter Foundation Argosy Foundation The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread Baird Foundation, Inc. Bader Philanthropies, Inc. Brewers Community Foundation, Inc. Becca Grace Foundation Public Funder Bucks Foundation Charles D. Jacobus Family Foundation Cream City Foundation Cardinal Capital Management Charles E. Benidt Foundation, Inc. Forward Community Investments CUNA Mutual Group Foundation Daniel Hoan Foundation, Inc. Women’s Fund for the Fox Valley Region Direct Supply Foundation Daniel M. Soref Charitable Trust Foley & Lardner LLP Retiree Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Charitable Trusts Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Scott Gelzer Evan and Marion Helfaer Foundation Corporation Jack Harris Herb Kohl Philanthropies Johnson Controls, Inc. Mary Anne Martiny Hugh J. Andersen Foundation Carmen Witt Zilber Family Foundation JPMorgan Chase Foundation Katz Family Foundation Kohl’s Corporation Supporting Organization Kaztex Foundation Marking Services Inc. Brookhill Institute of Mathematics, Inc. Kelben Foundation MillerCoors Foundation of the Wisconsin Automobile and Kern Family Foundation Inc. Milwaukee Business Journal Truck Dealers Association (WATDA) Nimick Forbesway Foundation National Investment Services Rotary Club of Milwaukee Peck Foundation NGL Insurance Group Wisconsin Community Health Fund, Inc. Prairie Springs: The Paul Fleckenstein Trust Foundation R.A. Stevens Foundation Updated: December 13, 2016