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11 Tips for Foundations Interested in Getting Involved in OZs
The Opportunity Zone program, a new federal tax incentive intended to attract investments to low-income communities, is quickly rolling out across the U.S., as funds and states develop strategies to facilitate investments.
Midwest Corporate Giving Webinar Series: Connected, but Different: Empowering
Whether your work is regional, national, or global, the structure and approach that you use to activate local giving can have a big impact on your effectiveness.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Developing Your Team
Taking a comprehensive and proactive approach to talent management can help you to retain and develop talent, identify gaps, and be best-prepared for staff transitions.
The Step-By-Step Guide to Evaluation
What is evaluation? How can it help your organization? And how can you work more effectively with your evaluator? This handbook is designed to demystify evaluation and help you get the most out of evaluation for your organization.
Midwest Corporate Giving Webinar Series: Triple Bottom Line Best Practices
Learn about how Midwest-based companies are trying to maximize their social, environmental, and financial returns.
Consumers Guide to Integrated Software for Community Foundations
Community foundations have different needs than private or corporate foundations. The software to meet them is different, too.
You're Hired: Identifying and Managing the Right Investment Manager
If you're looking to hire an investment manager this webinar will walk you through the process including; developing and releasing a request for proposal, searching firms and presenting the results to your board.
Tri-State Webinar Series: The Critical Role of Fund Agreements
This webinar covers the key elements of a fund agreement, share ideas for creating fund agreements that work over time and provide guidance on how to change a fund.
Midwest Corporate Giving Webinar Series: Leveraging Grants Management
How do you put into place the tools and processes needed to get clear about and increasingly get stronger impact from your grantmaking program?
Tri-State Webinar Series: Social Enterprise to Build Community
Hear examples of how investing in social enterprise can create employment for those who faced barriers, provide needed products and services to underserved areas and offer innovative services that contribute to the development of sustainable local economies.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Replicate This
Community foundation leaders are sharing a roadmap showing you how they used foundation resources and influence to drive community change.
Midwest Corporate Giving Webinar Series: Measuring Your Giving ROI
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.