Stewardship Principles for Corporate Grantmakers
Stewardship Principles to Strengthen Performance describe how corporate grantmakers can reflect their fundamental values in their governance, management and grantmaking.
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Collaboration and Connection: How Foundations Partner Effectively to Address Their Community's Information Needs
Addressing a community’s information needs is a critical aspect of supporting a vibrant and healthy democracy. As community and place-based foundations increase their participation in this work, they realize they cannot do it alone.
The Forbes Funds and Neighborhood Allies Launch New Initiative To Drive Nonprofit Collaboration
Thursday, July 26, 2018
A new partnership between The Forbes Funds and Neighborhood Allies will increase the collective impact of community and economic development nonprofit organizations in the Pittsburgh region.
Foundations Facilitate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Partnering with Community and Nonprofits
Foundations Facilitate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Partnering with Community and Nonprofits, a report by the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning, confirms that foundations can, in fact, facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through their grantmaking processes and their partnerships with nonprofits—and identifies eight specific practices for foundations to emulate.
Serving Undocumented Immigrants in PA: A Statewide Funders Briefing
On December 1, Grantmakers of Western PA, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Foundation, and Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (PICC) hosted a webinar to s
Matching Gift Administration
Published by the matching gifts clearinghouse.
Disaster Grantmaking: A Practical Guide for Foundations and Corporations
This guide was developed by a joint working group of the Council on Foundations and the European Foundation Centre. It identifies eight principles of good disaster grantmaking and offers a number of tips to help grantmakers address disasters more effectively, including facts and figures about recent major disasters around the world and a list of useful disaster information websites.
The Wisdom of Communities, How the Ford Institute helps rural people achieve their own vision of vitality
The Ford Institute for Community Building, a program of The Ford Family Foundation, works to help community leaders learn how to implement local solutions based on principles of effective community building. This paper describes the development and work of the The Ford Institute for Community Building.
Assessing Grantees’ Financial Health and Long Term Sustainability: Nonprofit Financial Statement Analysis Training
Resources from the workshop: Assessing Grantees’ Financial Health and Long Term Sustainability: Nonprofit Financial Statement Analysis Training
Corporate Learning Network: Simplifying Strategy & Advancing Impact
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 12:00pm
... and activities for helping you advance the impact of your organization, while providing space for discussion and peer ...
GWP 2016 Annual Meeting Materials
... members will also be reviewing what new stakeholders the organization should engage and how to build GWP’s ...
Igniting the Spark: Creating Effective Next Generation Boards
The National Center for Family Philanthropy and Youth Philanthropy Connect, a program of the Frieda C. Fox Foundation, have joined together to bring new resources to the field of philanthropy focused on engaging the next generation of donors and family members. Igniting the Spark: Creating Effective Next Gen Boards is the first publication of its kind, offering a comprehensive overview of the growing practice among family foundations and donor advised fund holders of using next generation boards.
Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together
In Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together, GrantCraft look at how funders approach building capacity with grantees. Through examples from foundations ranging in size, mission, and geography, we explore various strategies for capacity building and the types of awareness that funders can choose to incorporate in decision making to facilitate informed, thoughtful judgments about strengthening organizations.
On the Brink of Promise, The Future of Community Foundations
Seminal work on community foundations, published in 2005.
Collection of Articles Related to 06.11.20 Jewish Funders Learning Network Session
This collection of research and articles was supplied as follow-up resources by Karen Emmerich of the Buncher Foundation following our discussion on 06/11/20.
How to Bake-In Talent-Investing to Strengthen the Nonprofit Workforce
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 - 2:00pm
Join United Philanthropy Forum and Fund the People for a webinar that will help members better understand how to bake-in talent-investing - the intentional deployment of resources to support and develop nonprofit professionals and leaders - into their strategy and grantmaking.
The Power of Learning: How Learning Communities Amplify the Work of Nonprofits and Grantmakers: CMF Peer Action Learning Network Case Study
This case study of the Council of Michigan Foundations' Peer Action Learning Network (PALN) is part of a report from New York University's Wagner Research Center for Leadership in Action. It explores the power of learning communities to build connections and knowledge to increase organizations’ community impact.
Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 - 12:00pm
... in signing the Disability Inclusion Pledge . Each organization that has signed has committed to embark on a ...
Developing a Whistleblower Policy
... developing a whistleblower policy for your grantmaking organization. The article is written primarily for the board ...
Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice
... The Principles should be considered by every charitable organization as a guide for strengthening its effectiveness ... within and between the sectors.