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Balancing Purpose, Payout, and Permanence: Strategy Guide

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This Strategy Guide, developed in partnership with the National Center for Family Philanthropy, invites you to reflect more deeply on how your foundation chooses to balance the four factors of Purpose, Conditions and Trends, Time Horizon, and Assets for Mission, especially in times of greater…

More than Money: Making a Difference with Assistance Beyond the Grant

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From the Center for Effective Philanthropy, most of foundations’ efforts to contribute ‘beyond the money’ have little beneficial impact on grantees. More than Money: Making a Difference with Assistance Beyond the Grant reveals that only when foundation staff provide assistance beyond the grant in…

Survey Results: The Operation of Women’s Funds at Community Foundations

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After a request by a CF Insights member seeking information about the operation of Women's Funds at community foundation, a survey was created and administered to a subset of potential respondents. This short, eight-question survey collected some high-level information about fees pricing, revenue…

Grantmaker Salary and Benefits Report: Administrative Expense Tables

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The Grantmaker Salary and Benefits (GSB) Administrative and Program Expense Tables provide your foundation the data you need to benchmark your organization's administrative, program, service, and qualifying distribution expenses against peers in the field. Containing data collected through the…

Shifting Practices, Sharing Power? How U.S. Philanthropy is Responding to the 2020 Crises

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The public health and economic crises of 2020 have affected millions of Americans and laid bare the glaring inequities in our systems and institutions.  A new report from Council on Foundations, Philanthropy California, and Dalberg Advisors outlines how the US philanthropic sector is…

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