Writing a Successful Grant Proposal
... or ignorance about how HIV/AIDS is transmitted. The grant proposal as a whole, not including supplementary ... should usually be five pages or less. Writing a Successful Grant Proposal ...
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Minnesota Grants Directory 2020: Special Edition
Over 40 Minnesota and national funding opportunities responding to the impacts of COVID-19 and disaster relief. Produced by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.
Effective Grantmaking Practices that Support Nonprofit Sustainability
This research includes these four recommendations to support nonprofit sustainability: Continue to build on current efforts to establish strong relationships with grantees, listen, and respond. Seek short- and long-term feedback about usefulness and impact of capacity building resources provided to grantees. Consider using additional funding strategies, such as loan programs. Gather additional input about ways staff and organizational self-care can be fostered. Download the full report and two-page handout
Giving Directly to Individuals: How Private Foundations Can Achieve More Impact with Their Philanthropic Funds
... to individuals. Although private foundations typically grant to charities and other nonprofit organizations, it’s ...
Program Related Investment Templates
MCF is offering templates for Program Related Investment ... of commonly used documents are available for use by MCF members incorporated as private foundations including ... structured as PRIs, with minimal modifications. MCF is offering these templates, for a small fee, to MCF ...
Investment Policy Statement
... is an opportunity to leverage the other 95 percent beyond grant dollars to advance solutions like the need for more ...
Community Foundation Field Guide to Impact Investing
Mission Investors Exchange and the Council on Foundations are thrilled to welcome you to the Community Foundation Field Guide to Impact Investing: Reflections from the Field and Resources for Moving Forward . We are delighted that you are reading this Field Guide and discovering all the resources and connections that it has to offer community foundations interested in learning about, designing, and activating an impact investing program. Community foundations serve people who share a common interest—improving the quality of life in their local areas. Given their place-based focus and...
Environmental Justice: Exploring the Intersection of Environment and Equity
... between environmental, cultural and economic justice. Sam Grant , Executive Director of MN350, will set the stage for ... Slotterback, Program Officer, McKnight Foundation Sam Grant , Executive Director, MN350 JoAnne Peters, Foundation ...
Support BIPOC Communities Through Impact Investing
... participants to strategies to scale philanthropy’s grant and investment capital to maximize the impact a ...
Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens: A Practical Guide
Written by PRE Senior Fellow Rinku Sen and Executive Director Lori Villarosa with contributions from Maggie Potapchuk, Lisa McGill, and Makani Themba, this resource provides grantmakers with reflections, frameworks and tools built from the direct experience of activists and funders for advancing racial justice in any philanthropic setting. Download it here
Philanthropy and COVID-19 in the First Half of 2020
This report looks at the philanthropic dollars that were distributed for COVID-19 in the first half of 2020. Although not a complete picture of the global philanthropic response, due to the ever-changing response to the pandemic, the report offers some insight into funding flows seen thus far. Some key findings: — In the first half of the year, we identified more than $11.9 billion awarded for COVID-19 globally — Corporations accounted for nearly two-thirds of funding — Community foundations awarded more grants than any other grantmaker type (49 percent of total awards) — Gifts by high-net-...
Philanthropy Advocacy Playbook: Leveraging Your Dollars
PAP.png Philanthropy Advocacy Playbook: Leveraging Your Dollars is designed to provide foundations with the information they need to both fund and conduct advocacy. The Playbook provides examples of how foundation investments have generated meaningful policy change, as well as links to other publications and fact sheets that will allow foundation leaders to quickly answer their questions and access additional information.
Preparing for the Chauvin Trial
... spotlight again. Join this virtual conversation where MCF members will get insights into the legal and media ... vantage points, and engage in discussion and Q&A with MCF members. Topics will include issues such as: the decision ...
What Every Grantmaker Should Know & Legal FAQs
This resource from MCF contains: Foreword Letter to Colleagues and Friends ...
Analysis of Policies, Practices, and Programs for Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Resource Guide
The Analysis of Policies, Practices, and Programs for Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a useful tool for foundation staff, leadership and other members of the philanthropy community who want to take action to advance DEI. It provides a comprehensive scan of existing written and web-based resources from philanthropy and the more general fields of organizational effectiveness and social justice in order to identify existing policies, practices, and tools that can inform and guide philanthropic action.
Foundation Diversity Policy & Practices Toolkit
Changing demographics throughout the United States are redefining the role of diversity within the field of philanthropy. Foundations are embracing diversity in their grantmaking and organizational practices and thereby strengthening their knowledge of the communities they serve. This, in turn, broadens their perspective on the political, economic, and social problems they aim to resolve. A foundation that both reflects and acknowledges the myriad characteristics of its communities operates from a richer range of viewpoints toward successful grantmaking and as an authentic philanthropic...
Going to Where the Kids Are: Funders, Districts and the Future of Public Education
Education consistently receives more funding from U.S. foundation than any issue other than health. Yet, support for local school districts - the entities that educate the vast majority of America’s youth - is modest. In Minneapolis, that support is declining. This session will challenge the reticence of many funders to support traditional public education by showing three approaches that are working. We will also highlight school districts in other major cities that have used philanthropic partnerships to spur consistent improvement. Finally, the presenters hope to engage participants in a...
Racial Equity Considerations for Investors
... shared through the CFA Society of Minnesota and offered to MCF members. Learn strategies to use impact investing to ...
Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture
The attainment of race equity requires us to examine all four levels on which racism operates (personal, interpersonal, institutional, and structural), recognize our role in enduring inequities, and commit ourselves to change. As a sector, we must center race equity as a core goal of social impact in order to fulfill our organizational missions. This publication is relevant for you if you: Have some awareness that race equity is essential to driving impactful change within the social sector Want to play an active role in advancing race equity in your organization Lead, want to lead, or have...
Support Beyond Dollars
... Twin Cities United Way (GTCUW) the Equity Accelerator grant to create a cohort program of grantees that support ...