Every type of foundation – family, corporate, community or independent foundation – can stumble into issues of self-dealing and conflicts of interest.

Most foundations are required by law to distribute 5 percent of the value of investment assets each year to charitable and administrative purposes.

This video takes away the mystery of conducting due diligence.

MCF offers this PowerPoint deck as a tool for educating your colleagues, staff, board or community members about the Principles for Philanthropy.

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.