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From Big Ideas to Big Change
Foundations are committing more resources than ever before to communicate about their work and missions -- yet grantees continue to give funders low marks when it comes to fostering a clear understanding of what the foundation is trying to accomplish and where they fit in.
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.
Storytelling for Good
Storytelling for Good connects you to a suite of tools and a growing community that can help you leverage the power of narrative to increase reach, resources and impact for your social impact organization.
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.
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.
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.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Replicate This
Community foundation leaders are sharing a roadmap showing you how they used foundation resources and influence to drive community change.
Midwest Corporate Giving Webinar Series: Measuring Your Giving ROI
Like other areas of business, leaders responsible for philanthropic investments and employee volunteering want to demonstrate their value-add to the company. There is increased pressure to tie philanthropy and volunteerism to the triple bottom line.
Tri-State Webinar Series: Using the Community Philanthropy Toolkit
In 2014, the Monitor Institute released "What's Next for Community Philanthropy," a toolkit of flexible materials designed to help boards, staff teams and communities think about our changing environment and how it will affect philanthropy.
Tri-State Webinar Series: End of Year Resolution
The end of the calendar year inspires charitable giving, as evidenced by the stacks of solicitations that arrive in our mailboxes. As most of us approach the inevitable appeal in the same way (usually hurriedly, as if taken by surprise or perfunctorily, as if merely an obligation).
Tri-State Webinar Series: Targeted Donor Communications
Learn how one foundation has seen tangible results from implementing a targeted communication plan, and the steps they took to achieve it.
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.
Embedding Equity into Your Communications
Equity should be embedded in every aspect of our work. As communicators how can we ensure our internal and external messaging supports our organization's equity value?
Communications & Marketing Sample Documents
A collection of downloadable sample documents related to Communications & Marketing.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Project
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Project is a resource to help the foundation and nonprofit communicators identify opportunities to improve racial equity through their work.
Collaboration and Connection: How Foundations Partner Effectively to Address Their Community's Information Needs
Addressing a community’s information needs is a critical aspect of supporting a vibrant and healthy democracy. As community and place-based foundations increase their participation in this work, they realize they cannot do it alone.
Midwest Partnership Series | Responsible Adoption of AI in Philanthropy
Build your acumen in navigating the opportunities and pitfalls of the increasing prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) in philanthropy and society. Join your Midwest colleagues and the Technology Association of Grantmakers for this timely and critically important primer on responsible AI adoption in philanthropy. Hear how the newly released AI Adoption Framework can help you consider AI adoption in three key areas (organizational, ethical and technical) and what you need to know as this technology evolves.
Communications Staff Roundtable
Join us for this virtual gathering for communications staff to share what you’re seeing in your own work and crowdsource ideas from your peers across the state. We encourage you to bring any projects or campaigns in the works for an informal “show and tell” group discussion. This may include ongoing work, a new project or something on the horizon you’d like to ask your peers about. If you’d rather listen in you are welcome to do so, this is an open space for you to connect with your fellow communicators in our CMF community. This conversation is open to all CMF members whether your work touches communications or you have a dedicated communications role.
Questions? Ask CMF!
Our team of experts is here to answer your technical questions, track down research and connect you with best practices in grantmaking, legal and operational insights, sample documents and more.