This resource is intended to provide an overview of compliance needs and opportunities for both private foundations and public charities with grantmaking operations.

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. 

Implementing a CSR or corporate foundation strategy may be even harder than developing it. Our learning brief provides best practices and tools to help corporate foundation and CSR leaders advance their strategy. Learn how to overcome common obstacles by applying structured, data-driven processes that transform your corporate societal engagement portfolio.

A companion to Simplifying Strategy and developed in partnership with CECP, this brief outlines key design steps that leaders and teams can take to advance their initial strategy choices.

This strategy toolkit, developed in partnership with CECP, identifies three tools for clarifying your strategy and transforming your portfolio.

This report can be a useful tool for foundation boards at any point in their journey toward leveraging the power of differences.

Grantmaking at the Crossroads is a workbook designed to provide foundations with a new grantmaking methodology that works at the intersection of place, population, and issue.  

To help foundation leaders and their boards begin essential conversations about marginalized populations and determine the extent to which their organization's culture and grantmaking practices are aligned with a commitment to expanding opportunity in the communities they serve, CMF developed this discussion guide and self-assessment.

This tool is intended as a starting point. Use it with your board members and leadership staff to inform internal conversations about pursuing potential partnerships.

In times of uncertainty as well as stability, Purpose-Driven Board Leadership (PDBL) offers a framework that boards can use to ensure they are faithfully and effectively executing their roles and responsibilities by asking the questions that result in improved outcomes and advance the organization’s mission and purpose.

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.