Discovering and Engaging Diverse Philanthropic Youth
Hear from program leaders and youth on how they have recruited diverse youth and created opportunities to engage and stay involved with them.
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Hear from program leaders and youth on how they have recruited diverse youth and created opportunities to engage and stay involved with them.
Community Foundation of Grant County and Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust share information about scholarships and ways they partner with schools to provide special outreach and support to students.
As the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation has worked to improve the education, health, and vitality of Indianapolis, they've commissioned a number of research projects and studies to help guide their efforts.
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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.
Explore how you can inspire youth to share their time, talent, and treasure within your communities. Participants will find out how to inspire personal youth giving, learn group consensus activities, and hear about impactful youth grantmaking.
See sample documents below containing job descriptions for positions at private foundations and community foundations.
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Sample board and committee descriptions, including roles and responsibilities of committee members.
Sample job descriptions for positions at a Corporate Foundation or Corporate Giving Program.
This resource has been designed and assembled by the Macro International evaluation team with the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as a starter kit to promote the integration of effective evaluation into grantmaker education programs.
Sample bylaws for Community Foundations.
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.
A sample form used by a foundation's board of directors to evaluation the chief executive officer.
A sample conflict of interest form for independent private foundations.