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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.
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.
Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Resources for Philanthropy Professionals
Resources from Grants Managers Learning Session: Project Streamline – Essential Principles And Key Practices 11/06/2019
Community foundations are beginning to deepen and shift how they work, adopting an anchor mission that seeks to fully deploy all resources to build community wealth. Moving into territory relatively uncharted for community foundations, they are taking up impact investing and economic development — some in advanced ways, others with small steps. This report offers an overview of how 30 representative community foundations — including The Seattle Foundation, the Vermont Community Foundation, and the Greater Cincinnati Foundation — are working toward adopting this new anchor mission.
Resources from Grants Managers Learning Network Session: 10 Easy Ways to Improve Your Grantmaking Practices on 06/18/2020
Resources from GWP FBI Session: What Funders Need to Know about Cyber Security on 2/13/2020
Resources from the Corporate Network Session: A Blueprint for Racial Equity in the Workplace and Beyond- Building a Just Future Together.
The results from our member survey around GWP member organization return to work plans
Program Resources: LinkedIn- Beyond the Profile on 04/20/2021
2021 Annual Meeting Materials and Resources from 12/07/2021
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Resources from GWP Program Census 2020: What’s at Risk and What Can Philanthropy Do Now? 5-29-18
Research shows that one of the greatest impediments to a prosperous future for all of Michigan's people is unequal access to resources. 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 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.
Resources from Corporate Learning Network Virtual Roundtable 05/28/2020.
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.
Jefferson Regional Foundation created a toolkit to use for their local efforts to ensure an accurate count in the 2020 Census.
Program Resources from Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy on 11/16/2021