While families create their own philanthropic experiences, we help them in making such experiences more effective, meaningful, and joyful. They are highly entrepreneurial philanthropic institutions inspiring new and innovative approaches to the charitable aims they embrace. While families create their own philanthropic experiences, we help them in making such experiences more effective, meaningful, and joyful. We offer evidence-informed strategies to enhance foundation governance, management, and grant making in ways that allow each foundation’s uniqueness to be preserved and enhanced while supporting genuine family engagement.