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Grantmaking With Purpose - Sample Grant Materials
This resource is intended to provide sample documents for the initial stages of the grantmaking process.
Nonprofit Challenges: What Foundations Can Do
Nonprofit organizations face a long list of challenges that start with fundraising and can include everything from meeting increasing demands for services to utilizing technology most effectively. Who do they turn to for assistance as they grapple with these issues?
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
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.
Real Results: Why Strategic Philanthropy is Social Justice Philanthropy
The crises affecting our nation and the world have prompted philanthropists to become more organized, focused, and, perhaps above all, "strategic" in their efforts. The movement toward "strategic philanthropy" has already contributed to greater philanthropic effectiveness.
Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together
In Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together, we look at how funders approach building capacity with grantees.
Three Questions to Ask if You're Serious about Jobs for Youth
Government and philanthropy spend $7 billion annually on programs related to youth employment. Yet without engaging employers in shaping these programs, real progress in reducing youth unemployment isn't likely to happen. This report from The Bridgespan Group explores promising e
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.
Water, Michigan and the Growing Blue Economy
In a white paper published by the Michigan Economic Center at Prima Civitas, Foundation Director John Austin defines Michigan’s “Blue Economy” and estimates the economic impact of water-based economic activity at nearly one million jobs and $60 billion annually.
New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision of Multiyear General Operating Support
This report examines the state of practice in philanthropy regarding multi-year general operating support.
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
Talent Retention Manual
This type of program would provide competitive reverse scholarships, helping recent college graduates pay off their student loan debt if they return to their local communities for work.
Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff
Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff offers program staff critical guidelines for building better relationships with grantees.
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.
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