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2023 Giving in Minnesota Report
A comprehensive look at grantmaking in Minnesota.
Aligning Banking and Organizational Values
During MCF’s fall 2021 Impact Investing Network meeting, members discussed aligning banking practices with organizational values. Aligning values could include choosing a bank based on the diversity of its ownership or leadership, on the geographic area where the bank focuses its investments, on the locations of the bank branches, or various other factors.
Funding Tomorrow's Heroes: Scholarships Lift Individuals for the Benefit of All
Learn how a private foundation can donate to or begin a student scholarship program.
Principles for Philanthropy: Introductory Presentation
MCF offers this PowerPoint deck as a tool for educating your colleagues, staff, board or community members about the Principles for Philanthropy.
Learning Series Keynote: Imagining an Anti-Racist Sector
This video explores what it will take for us to diminish racism and combat white supremacy in our state.
Getting to the Heart of Community: Culturally Responsive Evaluations
This report presents a process to design an evaluation framework that prioritizes a community's own values and documents a legacy that perpetuates generations from now.
Shifting the Evaluation Paradigm: The Equitable Evaluation Framework
Evaluation has the ability to contribute to equity and it must embrace definitions of rigor and validity that reflect the complexity of the work in which many are engaged.
MCF Member Briefing: Leveraging Impact Insights to Inform Future Strategies and Goals
In this briefing, 3M explores their impact via a Strategy Map that analyzes their philanthropic investment portfolio.