The state has released its first-ever Statewide Housing Plan (SHP) to address the many challenges and acute disparities in accessing safe and affordable housing in Michigan. Hear from the Michigan State Housing Development Authority on the goals, strategies and outcoming measures outlined in the SHP and how philanthropy can engage in the implementation of the plan. 

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.

Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) offers this analysis as a call to action to the field to bring our practices into alignment with their promises and meet the creativity, vitality, and reality of social justice organizing today. Within the field of human rights philanthropy, they have spent much of the last decade asking how we can break down silos and move money to movements organizing in powerful, intersectional ways. This report offers a baseline of where the field is today. The research suggests that a resoundingly small fraction of human rights funding supports activism that cuts across multiple communities or issues.

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.

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. 

As longtime advocates for promoting equity and engaging community in philanthropy, Marcus Walton, president and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), and Kyle Caldwell, president and CEO of CMF, will come together to share their reflections and their vision for the future of philanthropy both nationally and in Michigan. 

In this conversation we will explore the opportunities we all have to adapt and reimagine our grantmaking to ensure greater alignment with our programs, policies and practices.