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Michigan Community Foundations' Youth Project (MCFYP) 20th Anniversary Report
It has been 20 years since the launch of the Michigan Community Foundations’ Youth Project (MCFYP), a groundbreaking effort to spread youth philanthropy throughout Michigan’s community foundations and all 83 counties.
For Love of Country: A Path for the Federal Government to Advance Racial Equity
The nation’s first comprehensive racial equity blueprint for federal agencies, For Love of Country: A Path for the Federal Government to Advance Racial Equity provides resources, tools, and a plan for federal agency leaders to implement President Biden’s historic executive order on adva
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
Sustaining Maturing Foundations
Recognizing that much of the educational material available nationally to assist foundations is designed for foundation orientations – to assist those just getting started – this resource alternatively focuses on the needs of executives, staff and board members of maturing foundations.
Interim Executive Directors: The Power in the Middle
Poorly managed transitions can erode organizational effectiveness and service quality, and even put a nonprofit out of business.
Learning Together: The Peer Action Learning Network for Diversity and Inclusion - Stories of Change
This fourth and latest report from the Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF) shares the learning journey and organizational change efforts underway in eight CMF community, family, and independent foundations that participate in the Peer Action Learning Network (PALN) and provides important lesson
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.
Expanding Equity: A Retrospective Report
In 2019, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation launched Expanding Equity to help companies transform into more equitable places of opportunity.
The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations
The report, “The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations: Mainstream NGOs, Foundations & Government Agencies,” is the most comprehensive report on diversity in the environmental movement.
A Toolkit for Creating a Diverse and Inclusive YAC
This toolkit provides questions, activities, and practices to help create a more diverse and inclusive youth advisory council.
What Boards and Executives Need to Know: Self-Dealing
While private foundations have strict rules for self-dealing among disqualified persons, many of these rules are well-established best practices for other grantmakers and public charities.
What Boards and Executives Need to Know: Conflicts of Interest
This resource shares helpful information about conflicts of interest relating to the nonprofit and philanthropic sector. Conflicts of interest are of concern for both private foundations and public charities.
What Boards and Executives Need to Know: Foundations
Board members and staff of philanthropic institutions regularly reach out to CMF to learn more about the various types of grantmaking foundations.
What Boards and Executives Need to Know: Succession Planning
Board members and staff of philanthropic institutions regularly reach out to CMF to learn more about succession planning. The Ask CMF team has curated the following resources for organizations considering how to plan for a hypothetical or forthcoming transition for executive positions.
What Boards and Executives Need to Know: Executive Searches
Board members and staff of philanthropic institutions regularly reach out to CMF to learn more about executive searches.
Conflicts of Interest at Foundations: Avoiding the Bad and Managing the Good
Produced in conjunction with BoardSource, this guide has been designed to help board members and foundation managers in defining conflicts of interest, identifying prohibited transactions and developing a conflict-of-interest policy.
Diversity & Inclusion in the Foundation Boardroom: Voices of Diverse Trustees
The Council of Michigan Foundations’ presents the practical knowledge and experiences of diverse individuals who have served on Michigan foundation boards and provides a compelling context for foundations seeking to build diversity and create an inclusive culture in the boardroom.
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