Events Calendar

Join your corporate philanthropy peers for an inspiring in-person retreat by the St. Joseph River. This event provides a unique opportunity to collaboratively address challenges, explore emerging trends and take part in shared learning. Most importantly, the retreat offers invaluable time to build meaningful relationships and engage in discussions on the topics that matter most to you.

Join your Michigan philanthropy peers engaged in housing work and meet with selected state legislators on housing policy issues. Conversations and storytelling will be focused on, but not limited to, increasing low income housing, housing security for the unhoused, and eviction prevention.

Join your fellow YAC advisors for an engaging in-person spring training! YAC advisors will connect with peers around best practices, lessons learned and other topics of interest. This training is open to foundation staff or volunteers who serve in a leadership or support role for youth who lead grantmaking activities at their foundation.

Join Latinx Affinity Network (LAN) peers and Latine Nonprofit Leaders for a regional social gathering at a local restaurant in downtown Grand Rapids! We'll come together in a fun, informal and meaningful space to connect as people and advocates of our beloved communities.

There is a growing recognition across the philanthropic sector that to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion, it must approach its work through a disability lens.

As the rapid growth and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools continue, how can we as a sector navigate AI ethically, with leading-edge security and technology practices and in alignment with our organizational values? Join this in-person event with your peers to engage in knowledge sharing and discussion and leave with actionable resources and insights to adopt AI responsibly.

Join us throughout 2025 for a multi-part series on impact investing fundamentals. Each session will focus on different aspects of this practice, growing your knowledge and your network all year. All programs will be recorded and available to CMF members on demand; live participants will benefit from live Q&A with CMF Impact Investing Expert in Residence Jennifer Oertel and guest speakers, as well as peer discussion time. 

Join your Michigan philanthropy peers engaged in career and technical education access and opportunities. Conversations and storytelling will focus on, but not be limited to, career and technical education program support, training, and access to programs supported by Michigan philanthropy. Stories can come from work in the K-12 space and beyond. We will meet with selected state legislators engaged in these policy-making areas, so a broader range of discussion is welcome. Career and technical education opportunities are shaping up to be an important discussion in Lansing for this legislative session.

Join your Michigan peers for a timely, informative and engaging in-person gathering in Lansing. This event will be an opportunity for family foundation executives and staff across roles to discuss emerging practices, explore trends in the sector, crowdsource ideas and problem solve challenges. We are also designing this convening to help grow your network so you can build connections with those who are similar in size, region and issue areas of focus, while also learning from the diversity of Michigan's family foundations.

How can funders reduce the burden on grantees when requesting demographic data? What information are funders collecting from their nonprofit partners, and what information is needed to make informed decisions and build trusting relationships?

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.

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!