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Remembering David Campbell
Catalyzing Regional Economic Transformation: Lessons from Funder Collaboration in Northeast Ohio
Strategic Planning Documents
Strategic planning can help philanthropy-serving organizations meet the current and future needs of the foundations they serve. Yet to be successful, a strategic plan must provide concrete goals and realistic deadlines for meeting them.
A Handbook for Giving Circle Hosts: Tools and Resources for Developing and Sustaining Giving Circles
The Forum's handbook of tools and resources for giving circle host organizations, including tools for deciding whether to host a giving circle, key questions to ask and a checklist of giving circle and host duties.
Sector Letter Calls for Quarterly BLS Nonprofit Job Reports
United Philanthropy Forum joined a philanthropic and charitable sector letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, in support of FY2024 funding for quarterly nonprofit job reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Forum Statement of Record - Improving Access to Federal Grants for Underserved Communities
Forum statement of record submitted to Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee of the United States Senate, regarding May 2, 2023 hearing: "Improving Access to Federal Grants for Underserved Communities."
Building for Sustainability While Ending Grantmaking: Lessons from The Nicholson Foundation
Ask the Right Questions: A Toolkit for Funder Groups Working on Public Policy
How can funders work together to have an impact on public policy? PolicyWorks for Philanthropy has been asking this question as part of an effort to help affinity groups use policy engagement as a strategy to achieve shared program goals.
Policy Update: February 2018
Carr Fire: How to Help
Secure 2.0 Act Fact Sheet
Fact sheet and FAQs regarding Secure 2.0 Legislation, from Cresendo Interactive.
Census PSO Activities Tracker Q2 2019
This spreadsheet provides the results of a Forum survey that asked PSOs to report their census activities and advocacy in preparation for the 2020 Census.
Policy Update: May 8, 2019
From Insight to Action: New Directions in Foundation Evaluation
Changing Hearts and Minds: How philanthropy helped love win
In 2004, a group of foundations came together to create a funder collaborative in support of Freedom to Marry’s state-by-state strategy to win marriage equality. Over the following 11 years, this unique collaborative and its funding partners invested a total of $153 million to support a wide range of activities across the country to change hearts and minds on a massive scale — and ultimately to deliver a historic win for equality and love.
Leveraging Limited Dollars
Evaluating Community Change: A Framework for Grantmakers
This publication from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations offers a framework for thinking about how to measure progress and results in place-based and community change initiatives.
CGC Sign On Letter in Support of the Charitable Act
The Charitable Giving Coalition's (CGC) sign on letter in support of the Charitable Act.
The Future of Philanthropy
Over the last 2+ years we’ve witnessed numerous promises, pledges and calls to action for institutional philanthropy to change how it does its work, from more fully embracing trust-based philanthropy principles to supporting more organizations and movements working to advance racial equity and racial justice, including more support for organizations led by people of color.