The DAFRC research team hopes this data will be used to improve best practices, inform relevant regulation, or enhance the field’s use of DAFs as a philanthropic tool for donors, DAF sponsoring organizations, and other sector partners.
At Exponent Philanthropy, we help lean funders collect feedback from their communities through the Grantee and Applicant Perception Survey. Over the past 2 years, we’ve worked with six foundations to survey more than 400 nonprofits to learn what lean funders do well and where they can improve.
Join us for this virtual gathering for programming staff to share what you’re seeing in your own work and crowdsource ideas from your peers across the state. This will be an open space for discussion, so please bring your questions, concerns and highlights from your own work to share with the group. As we continue our collective equity journey, we invite you to bring forward equity-related topics to our roundtables throughout the year. This conversation is open to all CMF members whether your work touches programming or you have a dedicated programming role.
Join us for this virtual gathering for programming staff to share what you’re seeing in your own work and crowdsource ideas from your peers across the state. This will be an open space for discussion, so please bring your questions, concerns and highlights from your own work to share with the group.
This guidebook overviews the Michigan Department of Natural Resource's Spark Grants program design and provides state officials with a roadmap to improve their grantmaking processes and better serve marginalized communities.
This resource is intended to provide sample documents for the initial stages of the grantmaking process.
This resource is intended to fill a gap in available source material to provide a useful overview for grantmakers of all sizes and types. It outlines the general steps of the grantmaking process while highlighting areas where due diligence components can be incorporated.
A common grant application is intended to be utilized by multiple foundations, minimizing the burden on nonprofit partners to complete numerous, divergent applications looking to obtain grants from multiple funders. A common grant report is similarly intended to help nonprofits save time, while assisting foundations by simplifying the process of gathering standard grant evaluation information.
Collected through FOMR data, surveys, and interviews with members, this report centers on the relevance of racial equity to Exponent Philanthropy members’ mission, as well as their board and staff demographics. It also describe how racial equity relates to good governance, grantmaking, and investment practices.
Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) offers this analysis as a call to action to the field to bring our practices into alignment with their promises and meet the creativity, vitality, and reality of social justice organizing today. Within the field of human rights philanthropy, they have spent much of the last decade asking how we can break down silos and move money to movements organizing in powerful, intersectional ways. This report offers a baseline of where the field is today. The research suggests that a resoundingly small fraction of human rights funding supports activism that cuts across multiple communities or issues.
