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Enhance your grants management skillset by learning more about nonprofit finance, ways to ensure your grantees are sustainable, and how to look at nonprofit financials beyond the numbers. Lunch will be provided, and there will be time for networking with grants management professionals from across…
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Did you know there are 12 centers across the state of Florida that provide leadership and management training for nonprofit professionals and volunteers? Learn about these Management Support Organizations, or MSOs, and how you, your organization, and your grantees can benefit from educational…
Understand the five core questions of grantmaking effectiveness and consider ways to find answers using accessible data. As grantmakers, we evaluate what and who we fund, but often forget to evaluate HOW we make grants, and whether our grantmaking practices are as effective as they can be.…
Brennan is President & CEO of the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, a community-centered, equity-forward organization with a mission to drive lasting, transformative change in Central Virginia. The foundation manages over $255 million in assets and distributes over $20 million in…
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The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) and the Council on Foundations hosted an instructive, engaging webinar that unpacked the legal framework for philanthropy in India. The conversation was led by Indian civil society expert Noshir Dadrawala and cross-border…
The Council on Foundations and Candid (formerly Foundation Center) analyzed how U.S. foundations supported international communities, nonprofits, and programs between 2011 and 2015 for our report, The State of Global Giving by U.S. Foundations: 2011-2015.
In addition to a detailed analysis of…
Pictured with Incourage staff (L-R) Dawn Newman, CFO, Gene Cochrane (Council), Kelly Ryan, CEO, Brad Ward (Council), Heather McKellips, Director of Learning and Engagement, and Kristopher Gasch, Board Chair; Wisconsin Rapids, WI
I firmly believe in a Council that is knowledgeable of…
June 20, 2013
Welcome to the Council’s Weekly Washington Snapshot
The Council on Foundations Public Policy and Legal Affairs team is pleased to launch a new weekly Washington Snapshot. Every Thursday afternoon, this newsletter will give you a quick glimpse at some of the pressing issues we…
The Council on Foundations invited executive staff of community foundations for an exchange of ideas to strengthen communities across the United States. As a field, we need to come together to discuss the current mischaracterization of donor advised funds (DAFs), and how we can implement strategies…
Editor's note: This post is one in a series highlighting sessions for the upcoming Endowments and Finance Summit, held in Washington, DC, on September 6-7. The Summit is where foundation leaders – such as CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, Senior Investment Officers and board and investment committee…