Staff: Ellen M. George | Teresa Bonner | Diane B. Neimann | Jeneen Hartley Sago | Sara Whitehead

Associates: William P. Massey | Charles D. Terry | Constance Pechura | Bill Henry

Diane B. Neimann Senior Philanthropic Advisor diane@fpadvisors.com

Diane Neimann is recognized as one of the leading philanthropic and wealth management advisors in the United States. She is an advisor to family offices, foundations and financial institutions throughout the United States and Canada on issues of philanthropy, organizational development and governance.  Diane has also provided counsel to independent, community, and corporate Foundations and has managed and/or advised in the annual distribution of approximately $20 million in charitable grantmaking for the past fifteen years.  Diane was co-founder of a multi-family office and founded Family Philanthropy Advisors. She serves as a Senior Philanthropic Advisor to the firm’s clients.

Known for her work in the start-up and transition of the family enterprise and the family foundation, Diane emphasizes the importance of direct trustee involvement in the work, and the necessity for values clarification and education as part of the governance process.

A leader in family foundation "best practices," Diane served on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Global Ethics and as a Trustee for the National Charities Information Bureau, which is responsible for setting ethical standards of practice for U.S. non-profits and foundations. She has also developed and advised individual, community and national collaboratives of non-profits and foundations which are effective models for leveraging grantmaking.

Diane has authored numerous publications on successful wealth transfer, foundation and family office management, governance and philanthropy and has designed a widely used Next Generation Training Curriculum for organizations in transition. She was a Trustee for the Family Office Exchange Foundation and was Senior Dean for Social Capital and Philanthropy and Trustee of the Family Learning Academy Foundation.

Associated with the National Council on Foundations and the Philanthropy Roundtable, Diane has been an organizer and frequent speaker for the National Council on Foundations Conferences, Harris Bank Conference, the Family Office Exchange and the Institute for International Research Wealth Management Seminars, the Haines Center for Family Philanthropy, and the Camden European Family Office Conferences in London. She has designed and presented programs on family philanthropy for Women and Philanthropy, The Committee of 200, The Haines Center for Family Philanthropy, WomenGive! and for many organizations serving philanthropists, high net-worth individuals and families.