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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.
Foundations Respond to Crisis: COVID-19
This report covers how foundations pivoted during a crisis to survive.
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?
10 Things Every New Foundation Board Member Should Know
The Council on Foundations, in collaboration with BoardSource, has produced an easy-to-use guide for new foundation board members.
11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2021
This report overview eleven key trends in philanthropy:
2020 Nonprofit Employment Report
This report examines the nonprofit sector's workforce and contributions to the economy.
Approaching the Intersection: Will a Global Pandemic and National Movement for Racial Justice Take Philanthropy Beyond Its Silos?
This resource explores these questions and presents a snapshot of a sector that appears receptive to new ways of working, has access to approaches that suggest promise for making transformational change, but is moving cautiously and at times hesitantly toward undertaking the types of fundamental
Benchmarking Foundation Governance
Benchmarking Foundation Governance shares data and infographics on crucial topics related to foundation governance — including composition, member expertise, structure, involvement, and characteristics of meetings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice: A Guide for Charities and Foundations
This edition provides considerable new value, reflecting changes in law as well as new circumstances in which the charitable sector functions, and new relationships within and between sectors.
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.
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