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CMF 2023 Annual Report: Embracing Differences & Bridging Divides

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In this edition of CMF’s Annual Report, you will read about how your peers in rural, urban and suburban communities are bringing people together across a spectrum of issues, perspectives and lived experiences

CMF Statewide Equity Fund: A Guide for Philanthropy on Partnerships to Equitably Shape Public Funding

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The guide is intended to be a playbook for philanthropy, highlighting lessons learned from the five sites and key considerations for ensuring community voice is centered in the decision-making process for community investments. 

Making it stick: A guide for establishing effective DEI infrastructure

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This how-to guide, created through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Expanding Equity program, has helpful tips for choosing and refining a DEI governance structure for your organization and offers supporting tools and processes (e.g., metrics, rewards and recognition) that can help make it stick. It uses a sample company called EE Corp — created based on the experiences of Expanding Equity network members — as it establishes its DEI infrastructure. Building this infrastructure is a multi-step process.

Foundation-Government Liaison Offices: Why and How of Michigan Governor's Office of Foundation Liaison

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This document aims to share learnings about the key considerations in starting and operating a liaison office successfully. This document is based on the multi-year evaluation of the OFL, along with interviews with its founders and of leaders of similar offices in other states and regions.

For Love of Country: A Path for the Federal Government to Advance Racial Equity

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The nation’s first comprehensive racial equity blueprint for federal agencies, For Love of Country: A Path for the Federal Government to Advance Racial Equity provides resources, tools, and a plan for federal agency leaders to implement President Biden’s historic executive order on advancing racial equity.

A Change Management & Deep Equity Primer: The What, Why, How & Nuance

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Change is a force that is simultaneously generative, stimulating creativity and innovation, and disruptive, destabilizing or re-ordering existing conditions. Organizations embarking on equity transformation processes often grapple with questions about the work they are engaging in and where they aspire to land as it relates to advancing change. These common questions can present moments of tension or stuckness, for organizations, staff, boards and equity practitioners, whether in identifying the greatest power levers, unaddressed challenges, or navigating fear or misalignment that can impede larger transformation journeys. Through this publication, Sheryl Petty supports systems to unstick and deepen their ability to advance and embody Deep Equity.

Racial Equity in Lean Foundations: Closing the Gap Between Intention and Impact

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Collected through FOMR data, surveys, and interviews with members, this report centers on the relevance of racial equity to Exponent Philanthropy members’ mission, as well as their board and staff demographics. It also describe how racial equity relates to good governance, grantmaking, and investment practices.

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Our CMF Community: Advancing Equity for Transformative Change

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This new publication honors the innovative leadership of CMF members, and the many unique ways philanthropy peers are working together and with their communities to make Michigan a place where all can thrive.

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