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Aligning Banking and Organizational Values
During MCF’s fall 2021 Impact Investing Network meeting, members discussed aligning banking practices with organizational values. Aligning values could include choosing a bank based on the diversity of its ownership or leadership, on the geographic area where the bank focuses its investments, on the locations of the bank branches, or various other factors.
Community Foundation Field Guide to Impact Investing
Explore this comprehensive guide that can assist community foundations with their impact investing efforts.
Impact Investing Network: Mission-Aligned Investments in a Time of Uncertainty
Mission-aligned investments and PRIs can allow you to create outsized impact with your foundation's dollars, even in uncertain times.
McKnight Foundation Investment Policy Statement
Most foundations are required by law to distribute 5 percent of the value of investment assets each year to charitable and administrative purposes.
MCF Member Briefing: Performance Scorecard: How Radical Transparency Can Foster Accountability and Trust
Learn about Bush Foundation's Performance Scorecard – why they did it, how they did it and what they’re learning along the way.
Shifting the Evaluation Paradigm: The Equitable Evaluation Framework
Evaluation has the ability to contribute to equity and it must embrace definitions of rigor and validity that reflect the complexity of the work in which many are engaged.
Listening and Feedback: Tools to Assess Your Philanthropy
Learn how to listen with intention, gather and use feedback, and use tools that provide insights into how you can improve your work.
Developmental Evaluation: Learning and Evaluation Network Discussion
Join this virtual gathering of the MCF Learning and Evaluation Peer Network to dig into the concept, hear how it’s being implemented in a variety of contexts, ask questions, and get tips for your own work.