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Foundations Facilitate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Partnering with Community and Nonprofits

This 2014 report by the OMG Center for Collaborative investigated the systemic factors in the philanthropic sector that facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion in grantmaking and nonprofit practices. Specifically, the project identified where there are opportunities for foundations to reinforce diversity, equity, and inclusion through interactions with their nonprofit partners and peer foundations.


Grantmaking Practices that Advance DEI: New Report from OMG

Foundations Facilitate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Partnering with Community and Nonprofits, a new report by the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning, confirms that foundations can, in fact, facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through their grantmaking processes and their partnerships with nonprofits—and identifies eight specific practices for foundations to emulate.


State of the Work 2012: “Convening for Change”

Here, Maria Mottola from the New York Foundation, discusses philanthropy’s role in helping people to better understand the challenges facing a specific group of Americans and the importance of firsthand experience in creating mutual understanding.       – Kelly Philanthropy NY: Convening for Change When a Sufi Muslim group announced plans to construct an Islamic […]


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.