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MCF Member Briefing: Self-dealing and Conflicts of Interest
Every type of foundation – family, corporate, community or independent foundation – can stumble into issues of self-dealing and conflicts of interest.
Policy Influence: What Foundations are Doing and Why
For all the conversation and critique about foundations’ engagement in public policy, relatively little data about their efforts in the public policy realm are available, including how many foundations engage in efforts to influence public policy, as well as why and how.
Philanthropy Advocacy Playbook
Learn how foundations can fund and conduct advocacy.
It’s On Us: The Nonprofit Voter Empowerment Project
It’s On Us to protect our missions by ensuring that every eligible voter, regardless of political affiliation, can cast their ballot and by rising to the challenge again, nonprofits can protect the civic gains we worked tirelessly for years to achieve.
Strengthening Capacity in the Field
Grassroots Solutions and SWEL completed an assessment to better understand how best to engage in and strengthen capacity-building for the field.
Impact Investing 101 Video
This 45-minute video, originally presented in December 2022, shares how MCF's community of practice defines impact investing.
Compensation Philosophy for HR Decisionmakers
MCF’s organizational philosophy sets the tone for how we make decisions around competitive and equitable salaries, salary adjustments and advancements.
Philanthropy’s Necessary Role in Advancing an Inclusive, Multiracial Democracy
This essay focuses on how contemporary American democracy can deliver on its promises, and philanthropy can help advance this vision for an inclusive, multiracial democracy.