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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.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grounding a Community Foundation's Practice
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work is a powerful and important role for community foundations as they strive to lift up the voices of their communities.
Midwest Corporate Giving Webinar Series: Effective Communications Strategy
Explore the ins and outs of communication, how to craft effective messaging and share the great corporate philanthropy work that you do through various channels.
The 2018 U.S. Trust Study of High Net Worth Philanthropy
The 2018 U.S. Trust Study of High Net Worth Philanthropy examines the giving patterns, priorities, and attitudes of America’s wealthiest households for the year 2017.
Asset Development Sample Documents
This is a collection of sample documents related to Fundraising & Resource Development.
Tri-State Webinar Series | So You Want to Engage Next Gen? Lessons In Engagement, Straight From The Source
What can community foundations do to truly engage rising generations as successful donors, fund advisors, board members, and staff members?