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Census Equity Fund Grants Awarded
Publication date:
11/2019
This list provides the contact information for recipients of the Census Equity Fund Grants up to September 2019.
Funder Briefing
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Come Home Awards Concepts for Implementation
Publication date:
06/2019
Come Home Awards Concepts for Implementation from Philanthropy West Virginia.
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Mobility & Aging in Rural America: The Role for Innovation: An Introduction for Funders
Publication date:
05/2018
This publication provides a wealth of background and program ideas for improving rural mobility through existing and emerging technology. It offers insights about what’s already working and what is possible from the perspective of providers and thought leaders. It is a general introduction tailored for funders but useful for anyone. It does not require a background in technology or aging.
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Consumers Guide to Integrated Software for Community Foundations
Publication date:
10/2017
This guide reviews the systems available as solutions for community foundations, as well as their capabilities and how they compare to other systems.
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Advocacy Funder Collaboratives
Publication date:
04/2017
For this suite of resources, GrantCraft captured the wisdom of philanthropic leaders who have participated in multi-party advocacy collaboratives and conducted a literature scan of how foundations talk about advocacy-focused collaborative work.
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A Date Certain: Lessons from Limited Life Foundations
Publication date:
03/2017
This report illustrates the ways in which limited life foundations approach spending down in nine key areas, including investing, grantmaking and strategy, and communications.
Knowledgebase
The Future of Foundation Philanthropy: The CEO Perspective
Publication date:
12/2016
Based on the perspectives of more than 200 foundation CEOs collected through in-depth interviews and responses to a survey from May to June of 2016, The Future of Foundation Philanthropy: The CEO Perspectivecaptures foundation leaders’ views on challenges and concerns about the changing landscape in which they work, practices they believe to hold the most promise for helping foundations reach their potential, and the most pressing issues that will influence foundation philanthropy in the coming years.
Knowledgebase
Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2017
Publication date:
12/2016
Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2017 is an annual industry forecast about the ways we use private resources for public benefit.
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Trauma-Informed Philanthropy: A Funder's Resource Guide for Supporting Trauma-Informed Practice in the Delaware Valley
Publication date:
10/2016
This guide was developed as a partnership of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation, and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey with the goal of raising awareness among funders about ACEs (adverse childhood experiences), trauma, and resilience and help them understand how they can apply trauma-informed practice to their work.
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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices
Publication date:
09/2016
The report shares data on crucial topics such as foundations’ evaluation staffing and structures, investment in evaluation work, and the usefulness of evaluation information. It seeks to provide benchmarking data that will be useful to foundation leaders as they seek to better understand the choices of their peers and think more deeply about their own evaluation goals and strategies.