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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.
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.
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.
May 2023 Trustee Roundtable: Mission-Driven Succession Planning
This on-demand recording features a discussion on mission-driven succession planning. Learn from those who have experienced transitions successfully, lessons learned and gather resources to assist with your organization’s succession planning.
Midwest Family Foundation Webinar: Transparency vs. Privacy in Family Philanthropy
How visible and accessible should your family's philanthropy be to others? It's a classic question with multiple correct answers based on faith, family tradition, regulatory frameworks, strategy and many more factors.
Midwest Community Foundation Webinar: Examine and Refine Your Leadership Practice with CFLeads
Join the staff of CFLeads as they share insights about the practice of community leadership from the collective knowledge of the community foundation field.
Creating an Organizational Culture of Acceptance & Inclusion: A Deeper Exploration of Implicit Bias
In this interactive session, we will define implicit bias and microaggression in the workplace. We will look at how verbal and non-verbal communication informs how we engage each other and the intentional or unintentional outcomes.
Midwest Family Foundation Webinar: A Generation of Impact? Engaging the Next Gen
In this webinar, you will learn what years of research on next gen donors tells us about how they want to be engaged, what they want to change to increase the impact of family philanthropy, and most important, what you can do to help them become the donors we all need them to be.
Midwest Family Foundation Webinar Series | Succession Planning
Leadership succession remains a top concern for foundations, regardless of size or type of organization. The dynamic of family foundations can make the process even more of a unique challenge.
Midwest Family Foundation Webinar Series | Top 10 Tips for Navigating Red Flags Leading a Private Foundation
Both trustees and staff exercise best practice governance leadership and management when they are well-familiar with and intentionally-practice the IRS's regulatory statutes and conditions for keeping a private foundation and its mission in good standing.
What Did We Miss While Managing the COVID-19 Crisis?
This resource serves as a starting point for staff to assess which tasks need to rise to the top of the to-do list.
Midwest Family Foundation Webinar Series | Preparing New Generations to Serve on Family Foundation Boards
Family foundations have some of the strongest values for philanthropic giving, and many of those values endure through generations of family involvement. But how do you best prepare new generations to serve on a foundation's board?
Tri-State Community Foundation Webinar Series | Staying Legal: The Pension Protection Act
This session explains the ins and outs of what you need to know to stay compliant.
Midwest Family Foundation Webinar Series: Board Governance
This webinar highlights challenges that foundation boards and executives are facing and discusses the board development levers that are most related to stronger board and foundation performance.
Governance & Board Development Sample Documents
Compiled below are a collection of downloadable sample documents related to Governance & Board Development.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Building Your Board Bench
A community foundation's board can be it's greatest asset, but ensuring you have a solid succession plan is integral to maintaining the board's strength. In this webinar, learn what your peers are doing to recruit and maintain high-functioning boards.
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