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Changing Hearts and Minds: How philanthropy helped love win

n 2004, a group of foundations came together to create a funder collaborative in support of Freedom to Marry’s state-by-state strategy to win marriage equality. Over the following 11 years, this unique collaborative and its funding partners invested a total of $153 million to support a wide range of activities across the country to change hearts and minds on a massive scale — and ultimately to deliver a historic win for equality and love.

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Catalyzing Regional Economic Transformation: Lessons from Funder Collaboration in Northeast Ohio

The Fund for Our Economic Future brought together a set of philanthropic institutions from across Northeast Ohio to promote a regional approach for increasing economic prosperity and opportunity. The original 28 Fund members committed a total of $30 million over three years to begin restoring regional economic competitiveness through pooled grantmaking, research and convening.

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

Developed in partnership with the Center for Evaluation Innovation (CEI), Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices is the most comprehensive data collection effort to date on evaluation practices at foundations. The report shares data points and infographics on crucial topics related to evaluation at foundations, such as evaluation staffing and structures, investment in evaluation work, and the usefulness of evaluation information.

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Nonprofit Technology Policy Workbook

This workbook to help you think through specific policies to manage your nonprofit’s risk. It contains prompts to help you create and document policies for the acceptable use of technology and networks, personal devices for work, how to provide IT guidance to “accidental techies,” how to respond to an IT incident, and how to recover your technology after a major disaster.

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Webinar: AFN Presents Clipped Wings- Helping Millennial Women Build Assets
Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 1:00pm

Join us for this live webinar to explore how the millennial gender wealth gap is compounded by systemic barriers including lack of affordable childcare and paid family leave policies in addition to student debt, mass incarceration, and changing family structures.  Learn how Philanthropy is uniquely positioned to influence and develop interventions. 

April Opioid Funders' Workgroup
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 2:00pm

A group of foundation staff has come together in recent months to understand how they can more effectively respond to the opioid crisis in Allegheny County. The group has agreed to continue meeting monthly to develop a coordinated approach to this issue. We welcome all members' involvement in this group and hope you will join us for this next session as well as mark your calendar for all upcoming monthly meetings.

Benedum Foundation Announces New Chief Financial Officer
Thursday, February 18, 2016
... with the Benedum Foundation, Mr. Mangan was the Head of Member Services of The Investment Fund for Foundations ... mile.  After college, he competed for Nike, Inc., as a member of a sponsored team which competed in international ...
Tri-State CF Partnership Webinar: You're Hired: Identifying and Managing the Right Investment Manager
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - 1:00pm

If you’re looking to hire an investment manager, this webinar will walk you through the process, including: developing and releasing a request for proposal; searching firms; and, presenting the results to your board. If you already have an investment manager, we will also discuss ways to properly evaluate and decide if and when to find someone else for the job.

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