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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
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
Common Grant Application and Final Report Template
A common grant application is intended to be utilized by multiple foundations, minimizing the burden on nonprofit partners to complete numerous, divergent applications looking to obtain grants from multiple funders.
How Lean Funders Evaluate Their Work
To highlight the current state of lean funder evaluation, this report provides an overview of the evaluation methods funders use most often.
The Step-By-Step Guide to Evaluation
What is evaluation? How can it help your organization? And how can you work more effectively with your evaluator? This handbook is designed to demystify evaluation and help you get the most out of evaluation for your organization.
The Basics of the Grantmaking Process and Due Diligence
This resource is intended to fill a gap in available source material to provide a useful overview for grantmakers of all sizes and types. It outlines the general steps of the grantmaking process while highlighting areas where due diligence components can be incorporated.
Grantmaking With Purpose - Sample Grant Materials
This resource is intended to provide sample documents for the initial stages of the grantmaking process.
Nonprofit Challenges: What Foundations Can Do
Nonprofit organizations face a long list of challenges that start with fundraising and can include everything from meeting increasing demands for services to utilizing technology most effectively. Who do they turn to for assistance as they grapple with these issues?
Water, Michigan and the Growing Blue Economy
In a white paper published by the Michigan Economic Center at Prima Civitas, Foundation Director John Austin defines Michigan’s “Blue Economy” and estimates the economic impact of water-based economic activity at nearly one million jobs and $60 billion annually.
Real Results: Why Strategic Philanthropy is Social Justice Philanthropy
The crises affecting our nation and the world have prompted philanthropists to become more organized, focused, and, perhaps above all, "strategic" in their efforts. The movement toward "strategic philanthropy" has already contributed to greater philanthropic effectiveness.
Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together
In Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together, we look at how funders approach building capacity with grantees.
Three Questions to Ask if You're Serious about Jobs for Youth
Government and philanthropy spend $7 billion annually on programs related to youth employment. Yet without engaging employers in shaping these programs, real progress in reducing youth unemployment isn't likely to happen. This report from The Bridgespan Group explores promising e
Navigating Scholarships and Grants to Individuals
This document is a reference tool for those who are considering establishing a scholarship program or other grantmaking program that benefits individuals.
Theory of Change for Funders
Growing numbers of charities are using the theory of change as a strategy and evaluation tool. This popularity is partly a symptom of funders asking charities to provide a theory of change in their application or evaluation.
Project Streamline Grantmaker Assessment Tool
Project Streamline helps grantmakers reduce the burden of grantmaking requirements, so grants management professionals can obtain the information they need to make good grantmaking decisions and help their organizations and their grantseekers dedicate more time to mission-based work.
Cultivating Nonprofit Leadership: A (Missed?) Philanthropic Opportunity
With the complex challenges our nation faces, the need for grassroots leadership is urgent, and there's a lot at stake. Cultivating Nonprofit Leadership: A (Missed?) Philanthropic Opportunity looks at how supporting grassroots nonprofit leaders can smash silos, create unforesee
Talent Retention Manual
This type of program would provide competitive reverse scholarships, helping recent college graduates pay off their student loan debt if they return to their local communities for work.
Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff
Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff offers program staff critical guidelines for building better relationships with grantees.
Kids Count National Databook 2022
The Michigan League for Public Policy's (MLPP) Kids Count in Michigan Data Book explores state and county outcomes in four domains of child well-being: family and community, economic security, education, and health and safety.
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