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Michigan Cultural Data Project
The Michigan Cultural Data Project (CDP) is a powerful, online management tool designed to strengthen arts and cultural organizations. This unique system allows users to track their own financial and programmatic performance over time and to benchmark themselves against comparable organizat
Guide to Evaluating Collective Impact
From the Collective Impact Forum and FSB, this report provides practical guidance for planning and implementing evaluations of collective impact initiatives. Leaders of collective impact initiatives need an approach to performance measurement and evaluation that is as multi-faceted, respons
LearnPhilanthropy
LearnPhilanthropy is the field-wide hub for grantmaker learning, built by professionals working in the field. They believe that by strengthening grantmaker learning, it can help to increase the effectiveness and impact of philanthropy.
CMF Form 990
As a 501c(3) nonprofit organization, the Form 990 for the Council of Michigan Foundations is available online through Guidestar.
Discovering the Activation Point
If knowledge alone was enough to inspire action, the world would already be a better place. Real change requires action, and the key to moving people from knowledge to action is persuasion.
An Event or an Era?: Resources for Social Sector Decision-Making in the Context of COVID-19
This guide lifts up various potential scenarios centered on the COVID-19 crisis, applying a racial equity lens to help inform the sector’s scenario planning efforts and future thinking.
Arts Funding at Twenty-Five: What Data and Analysis Continue to Tell Funders about the Field
This resources overviews changes in arts and culture funding over the past several decades to both revisit learnings and insights from prior arts funding research and to highlight what more recent trends may suggest about priorities for the field going forward.
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.
2021 Donor Advised Funds Report
This report examines data from 976 charitable organizations which sponsor donor-advised funds (DAFs). The results show increases in every key metric for the eleventh consecutive year.
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