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Reframing Community Endowment as a Tool for Community Leadership: How social investing could change how community foundations think about their financial assets

This 2007 report by Monitor Institute is part of a series, Future Matters, that describes emerging issues and trends in which community foundations can apply their endowed capital to the pursuit of their overall mission to enhance community philanthropy.  


Mission Investors Exchange

This website provides an extensive library of reports, guides, articles, research, case studies, stories from the field, investment policy templates, and conference and webinar archives. It is designed for foundations interested in mission investing, both program-related and mission-related.  


Racial, Ethnic & Tribal Philanthropy Knowledge Center

This website by the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, provides information, stories, profiles and how-to resources to set up, manage, and/or host racial, ethnic, and tribal philanthropy.  


Inside Inclusiveness: Race, Ethnicity, and Nonprofit Organizations

This publication by the Denver Foundation discusses the Expanding Nonprofit Inclusiveness Initiative (ENII), a project of the Foundation. It is designed to help the community develop a deeper understanding of how diverse voices and experiences can benefit an organization.  This publication identifies best practices and barriers to becoming an inclusive organization.  


Communities on the Move: Community Philanthropy, Immigrants and Giving

This 2008 publication by Blueprint Research & Design is the second in a series from Future Matters. It focuses on the ways in which immigrants and their communities, in the US and their nation of origin, interact with community foundations and the ways in which community foundations can be a resource.