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In 2019, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation launched Expanding Equity to help companies transform into more equitable places of opportunity.

The only comprehensive data on charitable organizations dedicated to women and girls, the Women & Girls Index (WGI) tracks the landscape of women’s and girls’ organizations in the U.S., including the amount of philanthropic support they receive from individuals, foundations, and corporations.

This databook provides a snapshot of Michigan community foundations for benchmarking and storytelling.

This databook examines the important role of youth advisory committees in community foundations across the state.

Giving in Numbers™: 2023 Edition examines 2022 trends in corporate community investments and employee engagement.

This report provides salary, benefits, and demographic data for staff at Midwest foundations.

This update of the ALICE Report for Michigan provides the most comprehensive look at the population called ALICE — an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed.

This resource is intended to provide sample documents for the initial stages of the grantmaking process. 

This resource – the only one of its kind for foundations operating with few or no staff – offers key industry benchmarks, along with data on the evolution of lean foundations.

A common grant application is intended to be utilized by multiple foundations, minimizing the burden on nonprofit partners to complete numerous, divergent applications looking to obtain grants from multiple funders.

The purpose of the Government Relations Public Policy Committee of the Council of Michigan Foundations is to seek support for legislative and regulatory changes at both the state and national levels that will help to strengthen, promote and increase foundation and corporate philanthropy.  Th

As the world continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, while also facing the effects of climate change, what lessons can we take from the philanthropic response to disasters in 2020?