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This guidebook overviews the Michigan Department of Natural Resource's Spark Grants program design and provides state officials with a roadmap to improve their grantmaking processes and better serve marginalized communities.  

Investments in early care and education have been a throughline for OFL; this resource shares institutional knowledge and demonstrates the critical inflection points in which philanthropy helped move advancements in the 0-5 space. 

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

Our 2025 survey of hundreds of family philanthropies across the country affirms that over the past 10 years donors have made positive, if incremental, progress toward effective practice. However, change has been too slow and too superficial to yield the lasting transformation we seek.

Since 2019, PACE has been leading research on the impressions and relationships American voters have with various civic terms, surveying thousands and gaining rich insights about the power of words to connect and divide us from people different than ourselves. 

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.

CMF and our national colleagues, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), hosted a conversation that provides funders with a baseline understanding of immigrant and refugee issues and insights into how they can support these communities beyond civic engagement efforts in the run

This resource is intended to explore frequently asked questions involved in preventing and managing through challenging operational and grantmaking situations, primarily around situations of financial mismanagement and fraud. 

This resource provides guidance for foundations on making grants to a variety of institution types, informed by frequently asked questions submitted via Ask CMF.

This document is a reference tool for those who are considering establishing a scholarship program or other grantmaking program that benefits individuals.

The National Council of Nonprofits has created a nonpartisan Voter Engagement Guide, which provides a roadmap of permitted nonpartisan activities and highlights how charitable nonprofits can effectively engage in elections on a nonpartisan basis, leverage their networks for greater impact a