Independent Foundation

Funding Learning Networks for Community Impact

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Released: 12/2013

From 2004 to 2012, Third Sector New England and clusters of nonprofit organizations joined in a unique grant program designed to further social change through united effort. In Funding Learning Networks for Community Impact readers will learn lessons from eight years of grantmaking in the area of nonprofit networking and explore the design of the CBF program where nonprofits planned, learned, and built relationships that enabled them to work together to achieve common goals.

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Resource Type: Best Practice, Report
Audience: All Members, Community Foundation, Corporate Giving, Family Foundation, Independent Foundation, Private Foundation, Public Foundation
Topic: Collaboration, Capacity Building, Strengthening Nonprofit Organizations, Networks


Re-Constructing Philanthropy From the Outside-In: A Funder-to-Funder Point of View

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Released: 02/2015

Paul Shoemaker of Social Venture Partners Seattle shares his thoughts in this essay published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review on funders can create breakthrough social change through their philanthropic practices.

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Resource Type: Best Practice, Report
Audience: All Members, Community Foundation, Corporate Giving, Family Foundation, Independent Foundation, Private Foundation, Public Foundation
Topic: About Philanthropy, Grantmaking, Monitoring & Evaluation


The Philanthropy Outlook: 2015 & 2016

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Released: 02/2015

With support from Marts & Lundy, the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy developed this report to help inform the nonprofit sector. Nonprofit leaders and staff can use the information within The Philanthropy Outlook to guide decision making about future budgeting, staffing, fundraising, programming, and general nonprofit development, as well as for board reports, general nonprofit reports, and research on philanthropic giving trends.

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Resource Type: Report
Audience: Affinity Groups, All Members, Community Foundation, Corporate Giving, Family Foundation, Independent Foundation, Private Foundation, Public Foundation
Topic: Facts, Figures, Trends


Expanding Opportunities in America’s Cities

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Released: 01/2014

A conversation with Rip Rapson, President and CEO, The Kresge Foundation, and Irene Hirano Inouye, President of the US-Japan Council, around philanthropic strategies for revitalizing and rebuilding our cities; foundation leadership and philanthropic stewardship; and to explore issues of governance and the importance of partnerships between board members and CEO’s.

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Resource Type: Video
Audience: All Members, Independent Foundation, Private Foundation
Topic: Strategic Planning, Private Foundations