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This webinar addresses the language gap between foundation staff and their accounting professionals while also providing a simplified look at accounting.
This webinar will assist you in getting the most out of your board meetings.
Learn about the Sustainability Costing Tool developed to help community foundations analyze the profitability of products and services they provide to drive sustainability.
An interactive database with data on U.S. nonprofit employment, establishments, and wages.
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
After more than 15 years promoting grantmaker practices that support nonprofit results, GEO is convinced that a strong culture inside foundations is critical for effective philanthropy. It’s virtually impossible to operate as an ally and partner to nonprofits if you are working inside a foundation whose values and culture run counter to that spirit.
Learn what your peers are doing to recruit and maintain high-functioning boards.
This material is from the 2018 GIFT events and programs.
These sample disclosure forms ask individuals to list their affiliations with other entities that might potentially affect their independent decision making in order to identify potential conflicts of interest based on an expansive definition of affiliated persons.
This webinar will help you think through your approach to strategic planning.
See sample documents below containing job descriptions for positions at private foundations and community foundations.
Go here for additional examples.
The heightened focus on nonprofit accountability in recent years has spurred calls for foundations and public charities to have adequate policies and procedures in place to ensure sound governance. One such policy that has become a recommended best practice for the sector is a whistleblower protection policy, yet most nonprofits still don’t have one. Here are some basic issues to consider when developing a whistleblower protection policy for your grantmaking organization.