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08Aug2016

Corporate Community Affairs Professionals Network: Strategic Planning and Navigating Strategic Shifts

Monday, August 8, 2016
8:30am - 10:00am
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Minnesota Council on Foundations
... Affairs Professionals Network where we’ll focus on strategic planning and navigating change. This network is for ...
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Corporate Giving
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Skills & Networks

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
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Best Practice
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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
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Best Practice

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.
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Research
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Giving Forum Spring 2017

... on education and economic opportunity gaps The new MCF strategic framework An interview with Bruce Thao Impacts caused by ...

Start Early

Release Date: 
05/18/2017
By Mo Perry Equity work comes in many forms, even strategic planning. Start Early Funders share the process of ... with the Minnesota Council on Foundations to undertake a strategic planning process to help them...

Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture

Awake to Work to Work
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...
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Designing for Racial Equity

... Whether creating products, planning events, crafting strategic decisions or writing stories, there are elements of ... competency. But then what?

Advocacy Agenda

... the changes envisioned in its mission, vision, values and strategic plan.  Through advocacy and public policy ...

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