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Evaluation and continually improving your grantmaking practices help to grow your impact, increase transparency and get the best return on philanthropic investments. All grantmakers have core values that motivate and inform their work, even if they aren’t explicitly stated. However, those values often aren’t reflected in their grantmaking practices.

As the issues that foundations address become more complex, so too become the relationships that grantmakers must build and maintain with grantees. When nonprofits begin to collaborate, partner and scale, grantmakers must adapt to become connectors and conveners while still managing the power dynamics of being the one with the checkbook.

The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) is a cross-cultural assessment used by individuals and organizations to build intercultural competence to help individuals, teams and organizations better understand how to shift their mindset and behaviors to create a more inclusive working culture.

The decennial census influences nearly every issue supported by Michigan philanthropy, including education, employment, veteran services, rural development and health care. Without a fair and accurate census, our communities are at risk of losing critical federal funding for programs and services in these and other areas.