Sep 19, 2020 | LA_Giving Back
The California Community Foundation (CCF) was started in 1915 and ranks among the top 100 foundations in the nation by asset size and total giving. Despite it’s name, CCF considers Los Angeles home and has a deep understanding of its complex challenges and...
Sep 6, 2020 | Family Business Rites
My Dad, Bernard Olcott of Olcott International was married five times, (my mother was wife number 2) so, as you could imagine, not all of them were cooking devotees. When I was 8 years old in 1966, I would spend a few weeks with my Dad in his office during the summer...
Aug 30, 2020 | To Be Checked
(By David Bain for Family Capital) Even at the best family businesses the family can get in the way of the business. Here’s a list of some of the bigger, or at least most notable, ones that made it into the public domain. In alphabetical order: Hancock Prospecting If...
