Nancy Golder Northrip

Gymnastics School Owner Director of The Golder Family Foundation Philanthropist "My childhood was privileged. I grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, and Scarsdale, New York. Both affluent suburbs, privileged but strict, yeah. My father started with the First National Bank of Chicago, which is no longer called that; it’s changed names many times or been bought out. And he ended his career having his own private equity and venture capital firm, which continues today. He grew up with money, but not as much as he accumulated through his business. His father was a very prominent lawyer in the city of Chicago. His mother was a stay-at-home mom. And my mom’s parents — huge dichotomy. My grandfather, my mom’s dad was kind of a slum lord of buildings in the inner city. So he managed inner city housing for low-income people.[...]In our early twenties, my parents passed the directorship of our family foundation to my brother’s and me, and that was a very nerve-wracking experience, because we had no experience managing a charitable foundation."