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IPA Member Response to COVID-19
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Below are examples of efforts shared by IPA members in response to COVID-19 relief efforts. Send your work to Adam Forrer to be included below.
Best Practices & Case Studies
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Foundation Advocacy Grants: What Grantees Need to Know
Advocacy efforts, including lobbying, are critically important to the success of many nonprofits. Advocacy by 501(c)(3) organizations is legal, as long as your organization follows the rules. Of course, like other work your organization does, advocacy requires financial support. There are many ways in which you can raise money for advocacy, including fundraising events, membership dues, individual donations, and grants from public or private foundations.
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Making Scholarship Payments to a For-profit College
Foundation Legal Help Desk advisors respond to a question on whether or not a foundation can make scholarship payments to a for-profit college.
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Protecting Families and Advancing Belonging: How Philanthropy Can Answer Threats to the Well-Being of Immigrants
This brief and funding recommendations considers the implications of the 'public charge' rule and how philanthropy can mount an effective immediate and long-term response.
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Philanthropy Podcasts
A list of podcasts compiled through the collaboration of organizations belonging to United Philanthropy Forum.
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Investment and Philanthropic Trends for Private and Community Foundations
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This webinar provides an in-depth discussion of investment trends for private and community foundations.
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Funding Journalism, Finding Innovation: Success Stories and Ideas for Creative, Sustainable Partnerships
Media Impact Funders partnered with Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy to produce this case study report that surfaces pioneering funding practices in journalism.
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Equity: Is Your Foundation Ready to Invest in Building Opportunity for All?
Research shows that one of the greatest impediments to a prosperous future for all of Michigan's people is unequal access to resources. To help foundation leaders and their boards begin essential conversations about marginalized populations and determine the extent to which their organization's culture and grantmaking practices are aligned with a commitment to expanding opportunity in the communities they serve, CMF developed this discussion guide and self-assessment.
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Tax Information for Charities and Other Nonprofits from the Internal Revenue Service
Access official tax information and resources for charities and other nonprofits from the Internal Revenue Service.
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Sustainability Costing Tool
Indiana Philanthropy Alliance, Council of Michigan Foundations and Philanthropy Ohio are pleased to provide you the Sustainability Costing Tool. It is our hope that community foundations will use this tool to generate data that will empower them to develop a path toward sustainability