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Connect With Your Peers!
MCF offers networks and listserves for its members. Three networks have been formed to help community philanthropy groups connect:

•	Development Professionals Network* is for staff involved in development activities for their community/public foundation. Meets quarterly.
•	Small Community Foundation Network is for executive directors of new or small community foundations. Meets monthly.
•	CEO Network: This group of community and public foundation CEOs meets twice annually. Meets twice annually.
•	Browse other MCF networks*

Please contact Lisa Johnson, Manager of Professional Development and E-Learning, at ljohnson@mcf.org if you are interested in joining any of these groups.

Minnesota Community Philanthropy Trends

• Top 25 Minnesota Community/Public Foundations

• Giving in Minnesota: Community Grantmaking Trends

• More trends and analysis

Community Philanthropy Basics

• Create a Community Foundation

• Pension Protection Act:
> For community foundations
> For donor-advised funds

Giving Forum Article Archive

• Philanthropy and Advocacy: More Foundations Finding Role in Public Arena

• Community Foundations Rewriting the Story of Rural Minnesota

• Ten Questions for Carleen Rhodes and Emmett Carson

• Q&A: Chris Andersen

• Affinity Foundations: Putting a New Spin on Philanthropy

Resources from the
National Council
on Foundations

•	Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Plan
•	30-Minute Mentors
•	More from COF

Other Organizations
and Resources

•	Community Philanthropy Publications
•	GivingNet (formerly Community Foundations of America)
•	Transatlantic Community Foundation Network
•	CommA A listserve for community foundation comm-unications professionals to share ideas, compare results, raise questions and work together.
•	Donor Power Blog Tagline: Fundraising As If Donors Mattered, For Fundraising Professionals Who Get It.