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Community foundation leaders are sharing a roadmap showing you how they used foundation resources and influence to drive community change.

Like other areas of business, leaders responsible for philanthropic investments and employee volunteering want to demonstrate their value-add to the company. There is increased pressure to tie philanthropy and volunteerism to the triple bottom line.

In 2014, the Monitor Institute released "What's Next for Community Philanthropy," a toolkit of flexible materials designed to help boards, staff teams and communities think about our changing environment and how it will affect philanthropy.

The end of the calendar year inspires charitable giving, as evidenced by the stacks of solicitations that arrive in our mailboxes. As most of us approach the inevitable appeal in the same way (usually hurriedly, as if taken by surprise or perfunctorily, as if merely an obligation).

This report can be a useful tool for foundation boards at any point in their journey toward leveraging the power of differences.

Learn how one foundation has seen tangible results from implementing a targeted communication plan, and the steps they took to achieve it.

Foundations are committing more resources than ever before to communicate about their work and missions -- yet grantees continue to give funders low marks when it comes to fostering a clear understanding of what the foundation is trying to accomplish and where they fit in.

This report broadly covers funding for transgender communities by U.S. foundations between 2011 and 2013, some of which include funding specifically targeted towards transgender girls and women, transgender boys and men, and gender non-conforming and gender queer people.

Storytelling for Good connects you to a suite of tools and a growing community that can help you leverage the power of narrative to increase reach, resources and impact for your social impact organization.

Grantmaking at the Crossroads is a workbook designed to provide foundations with a new grantmaking methodology that works at the intersection of place, population, and issue.  

The report, “The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations: Mainstream NGOs, Foundations & Government Agencies,” is the most comprehensive report on diversity in the environmental movement.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation has launched a web-based, racial equity resource guide.