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This year’s trends share a familiar wealth of examples, data, quotes, and research publications that can help us all anticipate the vectors of change. But at the core of 11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2024, readers will find a set of questions rather than answers. Each trend poses a number of moral, economic, equity-related, tactical, and other questions that the sector will have to answer.
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What Boards and Executives Need to Know: Self-Dealing
While private foundations have strict rules for self-dealing among disqualified persons, many of these rules are well-established best practices for other grantmakers and public charities.
What Boards and Executives Need to Know: Foundations
Board members and staff of philanthropic institutions regularly reach out to CMF to learn more about the various types of grantmaking foundations.
What Boards and Executives Need to Know: Succession Planning
Board members and staff of philanthropic institutions regularly reach out to CMF to learn more about succession planning. The Ask CMF team has curated the following resources for organizations considering how to plan for a hypothetical or forthcoming transition for executive positions.
What Boards and Executives Need to Know: Executive Searches
Board members and staff of philanthropic institutions regularly reach out to CMF to learn more about executive searches.
FAQS About Disasters
This resource is intended to explore frequently asked questions involved in managing disaster funds, specifically issues of concern to private foundations, community foundations, corporate foundation/giving programs and other public charities that manage grantmaking.
Comparing Philanthropic Giving Structures: Private Foundation or Community Foundation-Based Fund?
This document is a reference tool for considering which philanthropic giving structure is most appropriate to the unique situation and priorities of these individuals and families.
Charitable Gaming and Auctions For Grantmaking Foundations and Nonprofit Organizations
This guide provides an overview of the regulations and practical considerations of different types of charitable gaming available to nonprofit organizations.
New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support
This report examines the state of practice in philanthropy regarding multi-year general operating support.
The Step-By-Step Guide to Evaluation
What is evaluation? How can it help your organization? And how can you work more effectively with your evaluator? This handbook is designed to demystify evaluation and help you get the most out of evaluation for your organization.
Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together
In Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together, we look at how funders approach building capacity with grantees.
Theory of Change for Funders
Growing numbers of charities are using the theory of change as a strategy and evaluation tool. This popularity is partly a symptom of funders asking charities to provide a theory of change in their application or evaluation.
A Philanthropist's Guide to Working with Government and Local Communities
Whether your philanthropy quest is to end homelessness, fight poverty, enable gender and racial equality, lower teen pregnancy rates, or provide a path to college for disadvantaged youth, government funding and policy are bound to affect your results.