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This resource shares helpful information about conflicts of interest relating to the nonprofit and philanthropic sector. Conflicts of interest are of concern for both private foundations and public charities.

This resource is intended to fill a gap in available source material to provide a useful overview for grantmakers of all sizes and types. It outlines the general steps of the grantmaking process while highlighting areas where due diligence components can be incorporated.

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.

This resource is intended to provide an overview of compliance needs and opportunities for both private foundations and public charities with grantmaking operations.

This report is a timely and reliable reference resource for those responsible for investment, financial, and governance decisions at private and community foundations throughout the country. It is the field’s most comprehensive and authoritative study on investment and governance policies an

To help nonprofits in the area of program evaluation technology, Idealware has researched and written the report, Understanding Software for Program Evaluation.

Could you use more help thinking through how to use data to help your organization make decisions? If so, you’re not alone.

The National Council of Nonprofits has created this Nonprofit Audit Guide to provide charitable nonprofits with the tools they need to make informed decisions about independent audits.

Questions about how much foundations spend on staff, overhead, and other administrative expenses - and how much is appropriate to spend - are a perennial focus of policy debates on foundation practices.  This report explores how variations in foundations' characteristics, activities, and giv

Questions about how much U.S. grantmaking foundations spend on staff, trustees, overhead, and other administrative expenses—and how much is appropriate to spend—are at the forefront of current debates on foundation practices.

In a Comprehensive Fiscal Sponsorship Relationship, the fiscally sponsored project becomes a program of the fiscal sponsor and is a fully integrated part of the fiscal sponsor who maintains all legal and fiduciary responsibility for the sponsored project, its employees, and activities.