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Strengthening Capacity in the Field
Grassroots Solutions and SWEL completed an assessment to better understand how best to engage in and strengthen capacity-building for the field.
The Role of Philanthropy in Systems Change
This paper is for foundations interested in exploring investments in systems change, including a focus on policy advocacy – a key systems change strategy.
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.
The Retreat of Influence: Exploring the Decline of Nonprofit Advocacy and Public Engagement
Answering questions like: What types of organizations advocate? What motivates or prohibits them from advocating? What resources do nonprofits need to increase impact and create more equitable systems?
PRI Pulse
Learn how Minnesota private foundations have historically used Program-Related Investments.
01. Ethical Leadership
Ideas to help you grow in the area of ethical leadership.
2023 Annual Meeting of Members
Join the MCF board of directors and your peers in Minnesota philanthropy for the 2023 MCF Annual Meeting of Members.
Philanthropy Advocacy Playbook
Learn how foundations can fund and conduct advocacy.