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The Role of Philanthropy in Systems Change
This paper is for foundations interested in exploring investments in systems change, including a focus on policy advocacy – a key systems change strategy.
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.
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.
2022 State of Philanthropy Tech
The 2022 State of Philanthropy Tech survey is an in-depth look at technology practices at 277 grantmaking organizations throughout North America, the EU, and UK.
Philanthropy Advocacy Playbook
Learn how foundations can fund and conduct advocacy.
MCF Member Briefing: Indigenous Education for All
Discuss the need for changing how our educational institutions teach about the historical and contemporary lives of the people of Minnesota’s Tribal Nations.
Calling for a $200M Nonprofit Relief Fund
Nonprofit advocates propose a relief fund to help nonprofits support our communities' needs during COVID‐19 and to accelerate a more equitable recovery.
Foundations Respond to Crisis: A Three-Part Series
In early spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic worsened, foundations in the U.S. began to respond by shifting resources and practices.