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This year’s trends share a familiar wealth of examples, data, quotes, and research publications that can help us all anticipate the vectors of change. But at the core of 11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2024, readers will find a set of questions rather than answers. Each trend poses a number of moral, economic, equity-related, tactical, and other questions that the sector will have to answer.
- Advocacy & Public Policy (40)
- Emerging Practice (8)
- Asset Development (12)
- Communications & Marketing (18)
- Community Philanthropy (28)
- Corporate Philanthropy (20)
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (39)
- Family Philanthropy (15)
- Finance & Investment (29)
- Governance & Board Development (32)
- Grantmaking & Evaluation (52)
- Impact Investing (14)
- Operations & Legal Issues (49)
- Sector Leadership & Collaboration (57)
- Youth Philanthropy (12)
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Communications & Marketing Sample Documents
A collection of downloadable sample documents related to Communications & Marketing.
Economic Benefits of Michigan's Nonprofit Sector, 2018
By most measures, Michigan is in the middle of an economic turnaround, following an exceptionally severe economic downturn in the early 2000s caused by a combination of Michigan’s lost decade1 and the national Great Recession.
Midwest Family Foundation Webinar Series - Values-Based Grantmaking in Family Foundations
Family foundations offer some of the strongest values for philanthropic giving, and many of those values endure through generations of family involvement. What happens, though, when new generations want to alter the scope of family giving, or see different opportunities for focus areas?
Tri-State Webinar Series: Being the Change - Report in Action
Explore strategies that foundations might use to transform their internal practices to reflect the complex work they are doing externally.
Impact Investing Sample Documents
A collection of downloadable sample documents related to Impact Investing.
Midwest Corporate Giving Webinar Series: Employee Resource Groups
Learn how employee resource groups can be used as a critical internal strategy complementing an organization’s corporate citizenship.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Future Trends in Philanthropy
Trista Harris shares her insights on how philanthropy can prepare for and create the future.
Administration, Finance & Management Sample Documents
A collection of sample documents related to Administration, Finance & Management.
Considering Collaboration: Guidance for Community Foundations Assessing Partnerships
This tool is intended as a starting point. Use it with your board members and leadership staff to inform internal conversations about pursuing potential partnerships.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Bringing your Community Foundation Story to Life
This webinar will feature essential storytelling tips, highlight creative ways to repurpose your existing work and show you how to efficiently use downtime to stock a pantry full of useful ingredients to tell the right story when you're crunched for time.
Impact Investing Guide
This report is a starter resource for this interested in exploring the possibilities of impact investing.
Impact Investing: At a Tipping Point?
This 2018 briefing provides data gathered from a survey of affluent and high-net-worth people who give to charity to understand their interest in, knowledge of and experience with impact investing.