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Essentials of Impact Investing: A Guide for Small-Staffed Foundations
This guide demystifies the process of designing and implementing an effective impact investing strategy for foundations with few or no staff.
Community Foundation Field Guide to Impact Investing
Explore this comprehensive guide that can assist community foundations with their impact investing efforts.
McKnight Foundation Investment Policy Statement
Most foundations are required by law to distribute 5 percent of the value of investment assets each year to charitable and administrative purposes.
A Legal Guide on Ballot Measures for Nonprofits and Foundations
Seize the Initiative: A Legal Guide on Ballot Measures for Nonprofits and Foundations offers clear and concise information on the range of legal questions that could arise when nonprofits consider working on a ballot initiative
MCF Members Discuss Affirmative Action and Implications for Philanthropy
View resources from a MCF Member Briefing, Ripples of the SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action: Implications for Philanthropy.
MCF Member Briefing: Self-dealing and Conflicts of Interest
Every type of foundation – family, corporate, community or independent foundation – can stumble into issues of self-dealing and conflicts of interest.
PRI Pulse
Learn how Minnesota private foundations have historically used Program-Related Investments.
Impact Investing 101 Video
This 45-minute video, originally presented in December 2022, shares how MCF's community of practice defines impact investing.