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CMF Statewide Equity Fund: A Guide for Philanthropy on Partnerships to Equitably Shape Public Funding
The guide is intended to be a playbook for philanthropy, highlighting lessons learned from the five sites and key considerations for ensuring community voice is centered in the decision-making process for community investments.
CMF 2023 Annual Report: Embracing Differences & Bridging Divides
In this edition of CMF’s Annual Report, you will read about how your peers in rural, urban and suburban communities are bringing people together across a spectrum of issues, perspectives and lived experiences
Frequently Asked Questions About Donor Advised Funds
This resource is intended to explore frequently asked questions involving donor advised funds. Please note that DAFs are a continued topic of regulatory debate, and federal and/or state rules that affect the operation of DAFs are subject to change.
Common Grant Application and Final Report Template
A common grant application is intended to be utilized by multiple foundations, minimizing the burden on nonprofit partners to complete numerous, divergent applications looking to obtain grants from multiple funders.
The Basics of the Grantmaking Process and Due Diligence
This resource is intended to fill a gap in available source material to provide a useful overview for grantmakers of all sizes and types. It outlines the general steps of the grantmaking process while highlighting areas where due diligence components can be incorporated.
A Change Management & Deep Equity Primer: The What, Why, How & Nuance
Change is a force that is simultaneously generative, stimulating creativity and innovation, and disruptive, destabilizing or re-ordering existing conditions.
The NCFP Guide for Effective Family Philanthropy
Effective family philanthropy makes a collective commitment to meaningful societal change. It holds itself accountable to impact as defined by community, and to the proven practices that support it. It is adaptive, evolving with the family and the community or ecosystem within which it operates.
Philanthropy and the Social Economy Blueprint 2021
Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society: Blueprint is an annual industry forecast about the ways we use private resources for public benefit in the digital age.
From Grand Vision to Grand Action: Revitalizing a Downtown and Demonstrating Philanthropy
This report from The Philanthropic Collaborative and The Council of Michigan Foundations highlights this accomplishment. Read and share the full report and infographic at the link below.
Many Hands, More Impact: Philanthropy’s Role in Supporting Movements
Many Hands, More Impact: Philanthropy’s Role in Supporting Movements synthesizes thought leadership and research on the role of philanthropy in supporting movements and shares the experiences (both positive and challenging) of grantmakers engaged in movement building as a strategy t
Philanthropy and Government Working Together: The Role of Offices of Strategic Partnerships in Public Problem Solving
A new report from the University of Southern California's Center for Philanthropy and Public Policy describes the increasingly important role that offices designed to catalyze partnerships between philanthropy and government are playing in problem-solving.
Smashing Silos in Philanthropy
In this report, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) urges foundations that want to see breakthroughs on issues including poverty alleviation, protecting the environment, improving the education system, and other complex issues to fund cross-issue grassroots organizations as
Working Better Together: Building Nonprofit Collaborative Capacity
This publication offers insights on the core capacities nonprofits need to collaborate and how funders can help. Achieving real and lasting impact on the issues we care about often means changing complex and dynamic systems.
Foundation-Government Liaison Offices: Why and How of Michigan Governor's Office of Foundation Liaison
This document aims to share learnings about the key considerations in starting and operating a liaison office successfully. This document is based on the multi-year evaluation of the OFL, along with interviews with its founders and of leaders of similar offices in other states and regions.
An Event or an Era?: Resources for Social Sector Decision-Making in the Context of COVID-19
This guide lifts up various potential scenarios centered on the COVID-19 crisis, applying a racial equity lens to help inform the sector’s scenario planning efforts and future thinking.
Impact Connected: Amplifying Michigan Philanthropy in Action
CMF released “Impact Connected” as a new publication in December 2019. It celebrates Michigan philanthropy in action – IMPACT – and the powerful results that abound when united - CONNECTED. The 2019 issue features stories of CMF members in four unique journeys:
Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2022: Data to Drive Decisions
As the world continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, while also facing the effects of climate change, what lessons can we take from the philanthropic response to disasters in 2020?
11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2021
This report overview eleven key trends in philanthropy:
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