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Building Relationships with Policymakers
Highlighting policy advocacy through relationship building with policymakers in Lansing and DC.
Supporting your Policy & Advocacy Engagement
Policy and advocacy engagement to advance transformative and systemic change.
Supporting Individuals Impacted by Alzheimer's Through Research and the Arts
For over two decades, the Nartel Family Foundation has worked to improve the lives of individuals in Genessee County, including supporting Alzheimer’s programming within the community and research across the country.
CMF Members on Capitol Hill
Members of our CMF community engaged with policymakers last week during Foundations on the Hill (FOTH) 2024, presented by United Philanthropy Forum.
Collaborating to Support Residents & Nonprofit Capacity Building in Rural Communities
The Michigan Health Endowment Fund has joined Otsego Community Foundation in support of the Otsego County United Way’s START (Services, Tools, Assistance, Resources, Talents) Collaborative.
Partnering to Support Students' Success
CMF members Masco Corporation and the Schoolcraft College Foundation have partnered to establish a new fund aimed at supporting students’ success academically while centering their well-being. The fund is addressing challenges and barriers students may face beyond tuition and books and connecting them with resources to achieve their academic goals.
Addressing Housing Challenges through Innovative Projects Across Our State
Housing challenges vary in different communities, from rural to suburban, to our urban cores. Michigan philanthropy has engaged in community-driven housing solutions that reflect the unique needs of the communities they support.
Remembering Leonard W. Smith
Leonard W. Smith, foundation leader and dedicated steward, served as a trustee of the Ethel and James Flinn Foundation, The Skillman Foundation and CMF. He passed away on January 21 at the age of 89.
Centering Community Voices to Support the Long-Term Needs of Families in West Michigan
The Steelcase Foundation is leading an initiative that will look at how family goals change over time, what structures need to be put in place to assist in the achievement of those goals, and how policies can best aid and help families grow and flourish. The initiative is centering a cohort of west Michigan Black and Latina mothers who will guide system and policy changes designed to improve the well-being of families.
Michigan Youth Voting Guide
The Michigan Youth Voters Guide, created by the Michigan Community Foundation's Youth Project (MCFYP), outlines valuable resources and information for first-time and young voters.
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.
The NCFP Guide for Effective Family Philanthropy
Effective family philanthropy makes a collective commitment to meaningful societal change. It holds itself accountable to impact as defined by community, and to the proven practices that support it. It is adaptive, evolving with the family and the community or ecosystem within which it operates.
Mobilizing the Entirety of Your Resources for Impact
In her latest blog, Jennifer Oertel, CMF’s Impact Investing Expert in Residence, outlines resources and tools in addition to impact investing that philanthropy may leverage to create social change in the communities they serve.
11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2024
This year’s trends share a familiar wealth of examples, data, quotes, and research publications that can help us all anticipate the vectors of change. But at the core of 11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2024, readers will find a set of questions rather than answers.
National Day of Racial Healing
Today, communities across the state and the U.S. will come together for essential and timely conversations to move forward racial healing, equity, and justice in communities for the eighth annual National Day of Racial Healing, hosted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Thank You for Your Leadership in and for Our Michigan Communities
A Message of Gratitude from CMF President & CEO Kyle Caldwell
Policy Update: CMF Member Supported Federal Legislation & Advancing Your Public Policy Engagement
We’re sharing the latest policy updates around several CMF member-supported federal and state legislation promoting economic prosperity and development.
Toolkit for Simplifying Strategy
This strategy toolkit, developed in partnership with CECP, identifies three tools for clarifying your strategy and transforming your portfolio.
Toolkit for Advancing Strategy
Implementing a CSR or corporate foundation strategy may be even harder than developing it. Our learning brief provides best practices and tools to help corporate foundation and CSR leaders advance their strategy.
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