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Midwest Foundations Webinar | Trust Based Philanthropy Primer
Learn how to apply the trust-based philanthropic frame to your work.
Data-Informed Dialogue: Examining Private Foundation Payout Rates
CMF partnered with the research team at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Plante Moran Financial Advisors to update, deepen and expand critical research around the relationship between the mandated 5% payout rate and actual distribution rates of private foundations.
Midwest Corporate Philanthropy Webinar Series | Navigating the Technology Options: Grant Management and Volunteer Systems
Learn tactics for sorting through the technology options and learn strategies to identify a platform that best aligns with your corporate programs.
Centering Grantmaking in Racial Justice
Amid the dual crises of the pandemic and national reckoning for racial justice, Kresge sharpened its focus to racial justice grantmaking.
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.
Tri-State Community Foundation Webinar Series | Lessons Learned Through Rural Economic Development
Economic development can be a challenge and in rural places there are unique factors that create both barriers and opportunities.
Tri-State Community Foundation Webinar | Involving Donors in Community Crises and Leadership Opportunities
Community foundations invite donors and fundholders to respond to both immediate crises and our foundations' long-range leadership opportunities. We know how to bring the money in but how do we best steward, retain and advise those donors?
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.
Building Vibrant Communities
oin representatives from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) as they discuss community development technical assistance and financial tools that can work together with local efforts to foster vibrant, sustainable and diverse communities.
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.
Tri-State Community Foundation Webinar Series: Measuring Your Impact
Learn about promising impact measurement practices and tools to help advance your foundation's and community's practice.
Tri-State Community Foundation Webinar Series: Executing your Strategic Plans, Strategically
Strategic planning can be both a daunting and invigorating experience for an organization. This webinar is designed to help you think through your approach to strategic planning.
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?
Welcoming Angelique Power to Our Community of Philanthropy
The Skillman Foundation announced that Angelique Power will lead the organization as president and CEO, beginning September 13.
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CMF News and information about our members and the field of philanthropy.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Being the Change - Report in Action
Explore strategies that foundations might use to transform their internal practices to reflect the complex work they are doing externally.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Future Trends in Philanthropy
Trista Harris shares her insights on how philanthropy can prepare for and create the future.
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.
Midwest Corporate Giving Webinar Series: Effective Communications Strategy
Explore the ins and outs of communication, how to craft effective messaging and share the great corporate philanthropy work that you do through various channels.
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