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Board Term Limits
Boards serve an essential governance role within foundations. Each board varies in terms of its policies and procedures depending on the structure required to achieve its strategic goals and organizational mission.
Diversity, Inclusion and Effective Philanthropy
Diversity, Inclusion & Effective Philanthropy provides a fresh perspective on how social diversity and inclusiveness can be used as practical considerations to achieve more impactful results in philanthropic giving.
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
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.
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
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.
Exploring Access to Quality Health Care
CMF's Health Affinity Group, the Safety Net Work Group and the Governor’s Office of Foundation Liaison invite you to join your peers as we unpack issues related to the social safety net, health and health care access—priority among the group is the “unwinding” of Medicaid, i.e., the ending of expanded access to benefits during the pandemic. Michiganders will either lose access or will need to re-enroll. During this virtual briefing, you’ll hear from national, state and community leaders as they offer updates to the process, overview barriers to access, share how Michigan compares to other states and brainstorm the role that philanthropy can play to ensure access to quality health care. We’ll also take time to discuss health priority areas among funders. Join us!
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: Reasonable Compensation
This resource outlines recommended and required elements of this process, the details of a compensation package, special considerations in considering raises and bonuses, and much more.
Grantmaking With a Racial Equity Lens
A focus on racial equity can increase your effectiveness at every stage of the grant-making process.
The Women & Girls Index
The only comprehensive data on charitable organizations dedicated to women and girls, the Women & Girls Index (WGI) tracks the landscape of women’s and girls’ organizations in the U.S., including the amount of philanthropic support they receive from individuals, foundations, and corporations.
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.
Making it stick: A guide for establishing effective DEI infrastructure
This how-to guide, created through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Expanding Equity program, has helpful tips for choosing and refining a DEI governance structure for your organization and offers supporting tools and processes (e.g., metrics, rewards and recognition) that can help make it stick.
Scanning the Landscape of Youth Philanthropy
Scanning the Landscape of Youth Philanthropy: Observations and Recommendations for Strengthening a Growing Field shares reflections on an in-depth examination of the story and needs of youth grantmaking (young people making monetary contributions to organizations through established
Self-Dealing: A Concise Guide for Foundation Board and Staff
Topics covered include definitions of self-dealing and a disqualified person; most common problem areas; penalties for violations; exceptions; recommended steps for foundations in handling self-dealing issues; and additional resources.
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