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The CMF Statewide Equity Fund (SEF) was established as a tool for Michigan foundations to pool resources to practice cutting-edge, equity-centered philanthropy. The support and leadership of CMF members helped our community of philanthropy explore ways to equitably shape federal and state investments in communities. The SEF Strategic Support Pilot began in 2022, supporting five regions where CMF members launched new efforts to work closely with their local governments to guide investments toward equitable outcomes within their communities – efforts that are continuing today.
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Engaging Youth
Imagine the benefits to our communities and work when young people are deeply supported in using their time and creativity to lead and inspire change that advances the common good.
Racial Equity in Lean Foundations: Closing the Gap Between Intention and Impact
Collected through FOMR data, surveys, and interviews with members, this report centers on the relevance of racial equity to Exponent Philanthropy members’ mission, as well as their board and staff demographics.
AHR Funding for Intersectional Organizing: A Call to Action for Human Rights Philanthropy
Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) offers this analysis as a call to action to the field to bring our practices into alignment with their promises and meet the creativity, vitality, and reality of social justice organizing today.
Foundations Respond to Crisis: Lasting Change?
Foundation leaders report that their foundations are now working differently than they were in early 2020 — and that they plan to continue most of these changes in a post-pandemic future.
Partnering with Community for Better Philanthropy
This report examines the unique context of national and large foundations, including the ways in which their size, scale, and orientation pose challenges and create opportunities for meaningful partnership with communities in foundation decision-making.
Options for Your Financial Giving
Individuals, families, and companies regularly reach out to CMF to learn how they can give back to their communities through philanthropy.
Choosing a Corporate Philanthropy Approach
This resource provides an overview of important topics and distinctions among the three primary forms of corporate philanthropy: corporate giving programs, corporate foundations, and corporate donor-advised funds (DAFs).
11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2021
This report overview eleven key trends in philanthropy:
Approaching the Intersection: Will a Global Pandemic and National Movement for Racial Justice Take Philanthropy Beyond Its Silos?
This resource explores these questions and presents a snapshot of a sector that appears receptive to new ways of working, has access to approaches that suggest promise for making transformational change, but is moving cautiously and at times hesitantly toward undertaking the types of fundamental
11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2021
This report provides an overview of eleven key trends in philanthropy.
Philanthropy and the Social Economy Blueprint 2021
Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society: Blueprint is an annual industry forecast about the ways we use private resources for public benefit in the digital age.
Foundations Respond to Crisis: COVID-19
This report covers how foundations pivoted during a crisis to survive.