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Midwest Partnership Series | Community Foundation Finance Course
Join your finance peers for a robust day of learning finance for community foundations.
2023 Midwest Grantmaker Salary, Benefits, & Demographics Report
This report provides salary, benefits, and demographic data for staff at Midwest foundations.
Unpacking the Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference
In May leaders from the Michigan Department of Treasury, State Budget Office, and Senate and House Fiscal Agencies met to forecast the U.S. and Michigan economies and state government revenues during the Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference (CREC).
Comparing Philanthropic Giving Structures: Private Foundation or Community Foundation-Based Fund?
This document is a reference tool for considering which philanthropic giving structure is most appropriate to the unique situation and priorities of these individuals and families.
Council of Michigan Foundations 2022 Financial Audit
Council of Michigan Foundations 2022 Financial Audit
Tools for Your 2021 Foundation Operations Planning
As grantmaking organizations plan their operational strategy for 2021, staff and trustees face many of the same questions and decisions from previous years but are discovering that the answers have changed amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Fund Agreements: Tools You Can Use
Join your community foundation colleagues to discuss the template fund agreements recently developed by a team of your peers offering legal insights and traps for the unwary, what all of the legalese means, and how the forms may facilitate your National Standards accreditation.
Council on Foundations—Commonfund Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundations
This report is a timely and reliable reference resource for those responsible for investment, financial, and governance decisions at private and community foundations throughout the country. It is the field’s most comprehensive and authoritative study on investment and governance policies an
Consumers Guide to Grants Management Systems
This resource reviews 14 of the most widely used grants management systems against hundreds of requirements criteria developed with the expertise of consultants, vendors, foundation program officers, and system administrators.
Tri-State Community Foundation Webinar Series: Working with Difficult Wills and Trusts
This webinar provides information on how to deal with difficult wills and trusts.
Midwest Corporate Giving Webinar Series: Aligning Your Giving Strategy with Business Goals
Learn how corporate foundations and financial advisors are aligning their giving strategies with business goals.
Midwest Family Foundation Webinar Series - Values-Based Grantmaking in Family Foundations
Family foundations offer some of the strongest values for philanthropic giving, and many of those values endure through generations of family involvement. What happens, though, when new generations want to alter the scope of family giving, or see different opportunities for focus areas?
Administration, Finance & Management Sample Documents
A collection of sample documents related to Administration, Finance & Management.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Bringing your Community Foundation Story to Life
This webinar will feature essential storytelling tips, highlight creative ways to repurpose your existing work and show you how to efficiently use downtime to stock a pantry full of useful ingredients to tell the right story when you're crunched for time.
Developing Impact Investment Policies and Strategies to Further Your Mission
You might be interested in doing impact investments, but how do you decide what to do and how to do it?
Tri-State Webinar Series: HR Functions of Finance Staff
This webinar will focus on questions concerning the difference between exempt and nonexempt employee classification, health savings plans vs. flexible spending plans, determining when temporary employees receive benefits, and steps you can take when an employee performance issue arises.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Community Foundation Investments
This webinar will help guide you on the management of the investment committee, cover the basics of investment management, and review key areas such as asset allocation, spending policies, fees on funds, quarterly reports etc.
Record Retention Guide
This guide provides recommended minimum periods of time for retaining important documents. Certain circumstances may change these recommendations.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Children's Savings Accounts
Learn why CSAs are important to the future of our communities, evidence about the impact of CSAs and about innovative programming embracing identity-based motivation theory that seeks to address the limitations of traditional scholarship and financial aid programs.
You're Hired: Identifying and Managing the Right Investment Manager
If you're looking to hire an investment manager this webinar will walk you through the process including; developing and releasing a request for proposal, searching firms and presenting the results to your board.
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