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Gun Violence Prevention Resources
In September 2022, MCF hosted a conversation about philanthropy's role in reducing gun violence. Presenters explored various strategies including research, education, and policy solutions that seek to reduce gun violence through an evidence informed, public health approach, and make communities safer. Gun violence prevention, working in tandem with justice system reform and violence intervention can be powerful forces toward creating safe and just communities.
What Nonprofits Need to Know About Lobbying
This resource is designed to help your nonprofit organization determine if state or local regulations might apply to your existing or proposed advocacy work. The answer is surprisingly often yes, but there are also often many advocacy activities that do not require state lobbyist registration or reporting.
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.
It’s On Us: The Nonprofit Voter Empowerment Project
It’s On Us to protect our missions by ensuring that every eligible voter, regardless of political affiliation, can cast their ballot and by rising to the challenge again, nonprofits can protect the civic gains we worked tirelessly for years to achieve.
Embracing Complexity: Towards a Shared Understanding of Funding Systems Change
Towards a shared understanding of funding systems change
Philanthropy’s Necessary Role in Advancing an Inclusive, Multiracial Democracy
This essay focuses on how contemporary American democracy can deliver on its promises, and philanthropy can help advance this vision for an inclusive, multiracial democracy.
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.
Philanthropy Advocacy Playbook
Learn how foundations can fund and conduct advocacy.