Events Calendar

Join us to explore comprehensive, user-friendly platforms like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace that can help you manage email, collaborative grantmaking, forms, and portals—all in one place. This is not a sales pitch, but a guided overview of the tools available, their key features, pros and cons, and how to evaluate which solution best fits your organization’s needs.

join youth philanthropists and adult allies from around the state for the 2025 Youth Grantmakers Summer Leadership Conference! Youth who are involved in grantmaking activities at foundations are welcome to attend with their adult advisors.

Please join CMF's Government Relations Public Policy Team and your Michigan philanthropy peers for our Quarterly Policy Update. In this meeting, we will brief everyone on executive orders, ongoing tax changes and budget discussions in Washington, D.C., all of which could seriously impact the nonprofit sector. We anticipate an engaging discussion about these learnings, implications for philanthropy, and how members can engage.

All CMF members are invited to join the Health Funders Affinity Group for a timely conversation exploring the intersection of health, community well-being, and philanthropy in today’s rapidly shifting policy landscape. This webinar will begin with an overview of the current state of the sector, examining key policy developments and systemic challenges that will shape the health field. Participants will gain insights from a local health system that is responding to needs through innovative, community-driven solutions, offering a clear picture of what’s working and new opportunities ahead. This session will conclude with an open dialogue among participants, creating space to share perspectives, ask questions, and identify actionable next steps.

Leaders from the Michigan Department of Treasury, State Budget Office and Senate and House Fiscal Agencies meet to forecast the U.S. and Michigan economies and state government revenues during the Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference (CREC). Amid rapid changes and vast uncertainty at the federal level, join us for this special funder conversation to hear from State Treasurer Rachael Eubanks and State Budget Director Jen Flood as they walk us through the highlights from the May 2025 CREC, share the economic outlook for the state and provide estimates for the current state budget and revenues for future years.

Join your philanthropy peers for a Michigan Forum for African Americans in Philanthropy (MFAAP) in Kalamazoo! This event is sponsored by the Kalamazoo Community Foundation, and light fare and two drinks will be included. This event is open to all current and prospective members of CMF's MFAAP affinity group. Please feel free to come anytime between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. Please note that the event ends at 6:00 p.m. We look forward to seeing you!

Back in 2024, before the elections, Marguerite Casey Foundation engaged in scenario planning exercises with their stakeholders to envision various future administrations. The result was, among other things, clarity, agility, and steadiness in responding to today’s attacks on communities and philanthropy, with a continued focus on the organization’s values and impact in facing the current crises. Join us for a conversation on how foundations can prepare to be courageous now and in the future, and what that looks like in terms of supporting nonprofit partners working on community organizing and advancing a vibrant multiracial democracy.

Join us for a virtual gathering to discuss technology and software, share what you’re seeing in your own work and crowdsource ideas from your fellow peers across the state. This will be an open space for discussion so please bring your questions, concerns and highlights from your own work to share with the group. As we continue our collective equity journey, we invite you to bring forward equity-related topics to our roundtables throughout the year. This conversation is open to all CMF members whether your work touches technology, you have a dedicated technology role or you just want to pick up a few tips from our technology experts.

Join your Latinx Affinity Network (LAN) colleagues and enjoy your lunch and Cafecito in this virtual gathering. We'll take time to connect and make space to focus on ways to support our LAN community of philanthropy and beyond. 

Join us for this virtual gathering for staff and trustees interested in public policy to share what you’re seeing in your own work and crowdsource ideas from your peers across the state. This will be an open space for discussion, so please bring your questions, concerns and highlights from your own work to share with the group. This conversation is open to all CMF members, whether your work touches policy or you have a dedicated policy role.

Join us for this virtual gathering for programming staff to share what you’re seeing in your own work and crowdsource ideas from your peers across the state. This will be an open space for discussion, so please bring your questions, concerns and highlights from your own work to share with the group.

Join your scholarship peers for this in-person gathering to network, learn and share best practices. This program is intended for all foundation staff who administer scholarship programs in their communities. Topics of discussion will include supporting high-priority students, scholarship displacement, leading practices in administration and more. Attendees will be invited to provide input on the program content via a survey that will be shared following registration.