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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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Raising Your Voice For Change: The Why and How of Advocacy
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Midwest Family Foundation Webinar: Transparency vs. Privacy in Family Philanthropy
How visible and accessible should your family's philanthropy be to others? It's a classic question with multiple correct answers based on faith, family tradition, regulatory frameworks, strategy and many more factors.
Protecting Your Data: How You Can Enhance Your Organization's Cybersecurity
Phishing emails, spam texts and cybercriminals are leveraging more sophisticated ways to try and access your personal and organizational information. How can you protect your data?
A Data-Informed Dialogue on DAF Payout
Explore the study's key findings and consider how these knowledge insights can inform foundation policies, practices and grantmaking goals in our efforts to support equitable thriving communities.
Data-Informed Dialogue: Examining Private Foundation Payout Rates
CMF partnered with the research team at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Plante Moran Financial Advisors to update, deepen and expand critical research around the relationship between the mandated 5% payout rate and actual distribution rates of private foundations.
Midwest Corporate Philanthropy Webinar Series | Navigating the Technology Options: Grant Management and Volunteer Systems
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Leadership succession remains a top concern for foundations, regardless of size or type of organization. The dynamic of family foundations can make the process even more of a unique challenge.
Tools for Your 2021 Foundation Operations Planning
As grantmaking organizations plan their operational strategy for 2021, staff and trustees face many of the same questions and decisions from previous years but are discovering that the answers have changed amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Fund Agreements: Tools You Can Use
Join your community foundation colleagues to discuss the template fund agreements recently developed by a team of your peers offering legal insights and traps for the unwary, what all of the legalese means, and how the forms may facilitate your National Standards accreditation.
Tri-State Community Foundation Webinar | Involving Donors in Community Crises and Leadership Opportunities
Community foundations invite donors and fundholders to respond to both immediate crises and our foundations' long-range leadership opportunities. We know how to bring the money in but how do we best steward, retain and advise those donors?
Midwest Family Foundation Webinar Series | Top 10 Tips for Navigating Red Flags Leading a Private Foundation
Both trustees and staff exercise best practice governance leadership and management when they are well-familiar with and intentionally-practice the IRS's regulatory statutes and conditions for keeping a private foundation and its mission in good standing.
Advocacy: What You Can Do and Why It's Important
During this webinar we will share examples of how CMF members have used their voice, discuss how to effectively engage with policymakers and walk you through where the line is drawn between advocacy and lobbying.