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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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The NCFP Guide for Effective Family Philanthropy
Effective family philanthropy makes a collective commitment to meaningful societal change. It holds itself accountable to impact as defined by community, and to the proven practices that support it. It is adaptive, evolving with the family and the community or ecosystem within which it operates.
CMF Community Foundation Databook
This databook provides a snapshot of Michigan community foundations for benchmarking and storytelling.
2023 Midwest Grantmaker Salary, Benefits, & Demographics Report
This report provides salary, benefits, and demographic data for staff at Midwest foundations.
Our CMF Community: Advancing Equity for Transformative Change
This new publication honors the innovative leadership of CMF members, and the many unique ways philanthropy peers are working together and with their communities to make Michigan a place where all can thrive.
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.
Council of Michigan Foundations 2022 Financial Audit
Council of Michigan Foundations 2022 Financial Audit
2021 Donor Advised Funds Report
This report examines data from 976 charitable organizations which sponsor donor-advised funds (DAFs). The results show increases in every key metric for the eleventh consecutive year.
2020 Donor Advised Funds Report
This report examines 2015 through 2019 fiscal year data from 989 charities. For the tenth consecutive year, there was growth in donor-advised funds (DAFs) in every key metric.
Fund Agreements Sample Documents
A collection of sample fund agreements.
The 2020 Giving Landscape
The sector has evolved in the wake of COVID-19, racial injustice, partisan tension, and economic challenges. How have the events of 2020 altered the pace, method, and effectiveness of donor response?
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.