Midwest Corporate Giving Webinar Series: Leveraging Grants Management
How do you put into place the tools and processes needed to get clear about and increasingly get stronger impact from your grantmaking program?
How do you put into place the tools and processes needed to get clear about and increasingly get stronger impact from your grantmaking program?
Hear examples of how investing in social enterprise can create employment for those who faced barriers, provide needed products and services to underserved areas and offer innovative services that contribute to the development of sustainable local economies.
Community foundation leaders are sharing a roadmap showing you how they used foundation resources and influence to drive community change.
Like other areas of business, leaders responsible for philanthropic investments and employee volunteering want to demonstrate their value-add to the company. There is increased pressure to tie philanthropy and volunteerism to the triple bottom line.
Donors are giving more money online, engaging in collaborative giving and giving across generations. How can community foundations keep up and flourish amidst these changing dynamics?
The talent crisis and the growing anxiety around talent mismatch continue to drive greater emphasis on how corporate social responsibility (CSR) influences the attraction and retention of employees. As a corporate giving leader, how can you leverage your work to support this effort?
More than 10,000 Americans turn 65 each day. Is your community ready for the financial and social implications of this significant demographic shift?
The limited life approach in philanthropy has received increased attention in recent years. But across foundations, perpetuity is often still seen to be the default, and there is considerable uncertainty about the practice of spending down.
This resource offers a framework for investing across the returns continuum—from commercial investments to philanthropic grants.
Effective employee engagement efforts have been shown to improve employee retention, boost employee satisfaction, and even improve a company's financial performance. So, how do you effectively engage employees?
This session breaks down human resources into legal basics that are easy to understand and tips that are simple to implement.
In 2014, the Monitor Institute released "What's Next for Community Philanthropy," a toolkit of flexible materials designed to help boards, staff teams and communities think about our changing environment and how it will affect philanthropy.
To help foundation leaders and their boards begin essential conversations about marginalized populations and determine the extent to which their organization's culture and grantmaking practices are aligned with a commitment to expanding opportunity in the communities they serve, CMF developed thi
This edition provides considerable new value, reflecting changes in law as well as new circumstances in which the charitable sector functions, and new relationships within and between sectors.
The end of the calendar year inspires charitable giving, as evidenced by the stacks of solicitations that arrive in our mailboxes. As most of us approach the inevitable appeal in the same way (usually hurriedly, as if taken by surprise or perfunctorily, as if merely an obligation).
This type of program would provide competitive reverse scholarships, helping recent college graduates pay off their student loan debt if they return to their local communities for work.
Join three accounting experts for a non-technical look at some of the most basic but important accounting concepts such as donor restrictions, agency funds, and split interest agreements.
Explore easy-to-use tools and share tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your board meetings.
This report can be a useful tool for foundation boards at any point in their journey toward leveraging the power of differences.
This webinar will introduce the Sustainability Cost Tool, which was developed to help community foundations analyze the profitability of products and services they provide to drive sustainability.