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This guide from the Kresge Foundation offers various resources for staff, board members, current and potential grantees, and other community partners to expand our knowledge of the disability justice movement. 

Collected through FOMR data, surveys, and interviews with members, this report centers on the relevance of racial equity to Exponent Philanthropy members’ mission, as well as their board and staff demographics.

Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) offers this analysis as a call to action to the field to bring our practices into alignment with their promises and meet the creativity, vitality, and reality of social justice organizing today.

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.

In times of discord and divide, philanthropy plays a vital role in convening people to build bridges and unify across difference.

This report examines the unique context of national and large foundations, including the ways in which their size, scale, and orientation pose challenges and create opportunities for meaningful partnership with communities in foundation decision-making. 

The CMF Impact Investing Hub is a new structure we are launching for convening, collaborating and connecting stakeholders around the state who are engaged in the facets of impact investing, including nonprofits, foundations, advisors, fund managers and beyond.

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. 

This self-assessment is a tool for philanthropic organizations to determine where you are in your work with tribal communities, Native organizations, and Indigenous peoples, and to identify areas that can be strengthened as you move towards equity and effectiveness.

In this interactive session, we will define implicit bias and microaggression in the workplace. We will look at how verbal and non-verbal communication informs how we engage each other and the intentional or unintentional outcomes.

 In this conversation, we will discuss significant milestones in philanthropy's quest for equity, including policy changes and major events. Together we will explore how this shared context shapes your own work and envision what may be in store for the future of equity in philanthropy.

In this conversation we will explore the opportunities we all have to adapt and reimagine our grantmaking to ensure greater alignment with our programs, policies and practices.