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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.
Universal Charitable Deduction Legislation to Be Introduced on February 28, 2023
If passed into law, the Charitable Act would restore the non-itemizer charitable deduction and raise the caps for individuals and joint filers.
Policy Influence: What Foundations are Doing and Why
For all the conversation and critique about foundations’ engagement in public policy, relatively little data about their efforts in the public policy realm are available, including how many foundations engage in efforts to influence public policy, as well as why and how.
Crafting a Compensation Philosophy
A compensation philosophy serves as a guide for employers who are making compensation decisions. It also provides transparency to employees who seek to understand decisions that are made.
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.
MCF Advocates for Charitable Giving Incentives at the State and Federal Level
MCF works on public policies to promote charitable giving and a strong charitable sector.
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 Celebrates 50 Years
View MCF's 50th anniversary Giving Forum magazine to learn about our story over the past five decades.