This 2013 companion piece to the Council of Michigan Foundations report, Learning Together, provides an in-depth look at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s participation in the Peer Action Learning Network and its organizational learning around diversity and inclusion.
Throughout the philanthropic field, thought leaders and practitioners are working to identify how we can consistently maximize positive impact for all our constituencies. Across the board, we are realizing that we must innovate in order to stay on the cutting edge of social change. The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently published an article entitled “5 Things […]
This 2013 report by the Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF) shares the experiences of foundations in Michigan that were “early adopters” of diversity and inclusion and participants in CMF’s Peer Action Learning Network (part of the Transforming Michigan Philanthropy Initiative). The report chronicles their challenges, insights, strategies for change, and results.
This 2012 report on the Rockefeller Foundation’s diversity and inclusion initiative documents the Foundation’s business case for diversity and inclusion, its theory of change, its commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture, and its accomplishments and milestones to date.
This toolkit by U.S. Administration on Aging is designed to help funders in aging, aging agencies and their partners to discuss how to provide better services for diverse older communities. It includes an organizational assessment, ways to identify community knowledge for organizational capacity-building, questions to guide inclusive service design and effective evaluation.
