Search
- Communications (5)
- Community Engagement (7)
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (21)
- Ethical Leadership (8)
- Finance & Legal (9)
- Grantmaking & Grant Management (19)
- Human Resources (12)
- Impact Investing (8)
- Learning & Evaluation (4)
- Public Policy & Democracy (13)
- Transparency & Accountability (6)
- Values & Vision (5)
Transforming Organizational Culture Assessment Tool
A tool for advancing racial equity by focusing on internal organizational work to address white culture.
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.
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.
MCF Corporate Benchmarking Surveys 2021-2022
View the results of recent benchmarking surveys of corporate community affairs programs and corporate foundations in Minnesota.
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.
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.
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.
2023 Giving in Minnesota Report
A comprehensive look at grantmaking in Minnesota.