Four Imperatives for Centering Communities in Philanthropy
This briefing provides strategic guidance to funders — anchored around four imperatives — for shifting philanthropic power toward communities Read More
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Building the Board Your Foundation Deserves: The Governance Checklist
This Passages guide, written by NCFP Founder and Senior Fellow Ginny Esposito, introduces and describes a checklist of governance-related questions you will likely want to address with your board. Read More
Grant Guidelines and Agreement with Prohibition Against Hate
Sample grant agreement and guidelines from the Amalgamated Foundation explaining their prohibition against hateful activities. Read More
Community Fund: A Participatory Grantmaking Case Study
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Community Fund supports nonprofit organizations across San Mateo County, providing essential programming and acting as catalysts for social change in their communities. Read More
Finding the Right Advisor to Help Align Your Investments With Your Values
Addressing the world’s most pressing issues will require harnessing the power of all investment capital—including the corpus of foundations. While allocating 5% (the minimum required by law) of your foundation’s resources to support its mission can result in powerful solutions and social change, imagine if the remaining 95% were invested to further your goals and objectives? Values-aligned investing, an umbrella Read More
ValuesAdvisor Database
ValuesAdvisor is a nonprofit that works in partnership with high net worth investor affinity groups to accelerate the flow of money to impact. ValuesAdvisor is a database to find financial advisors who deliver both financial and environmental/social returns. Networks and affinity groups offer ValuesAdvisor as a member benefit, providing investors with easy access to trusted values-aligned professionals, put forward by Read More
Examples of Mission, Vision, and Values Statements from Family Foundations
This collection of sample mission, vision, or values statements is from NCFP’s Friends of the Family network and others and are shared as examples only. If you have sample statements that you would like to share, please contact ncfp@ncfp.org. Read More
Equitable Grantmaking Continuum
A simple tool for funders to assess how equitable your funding practices are. Read More
Much Alarm, Less Action: Foundations & Climate Change
Given limited sector-wide knowledge about foundation and nonprofit leaders’ perspectives on climate change, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation commissioned CEP to study foundation and nonprofit leader perspectives on this topic. Read More
Conflict of Interest Policy (George Family Foundation)
The George Family Foundation (GFF) is committed to avoiding transactions or arrangements that give rise to a conflict of interest, potential conflict of interest, or the appearance of a conflict of interest. POTENTIAL Personal-Gain CONFLICTS No less than once a year, GFF Directors and staff will review a list of all GFF grantees, vendors, and other business partners — disclosing Read More