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GIFT Phase VII
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This page contains GIFT Phase VII information for Indiana community foundations.
Toolkits, Templates, & Sample Documents
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Tri-State CF Partnership Webinar | Bringing Your Community Foundation Story to Life
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Effective storytelling can warm hearts, shift moods, and inspire action-but crafting your story can be a daunting task! In this webinar, hear from community foundations who have gone beyond basic communications to transform their messaging through storytelling.
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Developing Youth Philanthropists
A guidebook to help foundations create engaging youth council programming that builds life skills of young people.
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Philanthropy Month/Day and Community Foundation Week Sample Social Media Posts
Join us in celebrating philanthropy this month!
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Divest/Invest: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities
NFG’s Funders for Justice created this website toolkit for funders because they believe that our collective investments in housing, education, health, transportation, food security, and jobs will fail if we do not also proactively work to divest this nation’s resources from criminalization.
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Tri-State CF Partnership Webinar | Staff: From Succession Planning to Transition and Onboarding
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Finance staff play an important role in the human resource function of the foundation. This webinar will focus on questions concerning the difference between exempt and nonexempt employee classification, health savings plans vs. flexible spending plans, determining when temporary employees receive benefits, and steps you can take when an employee performance issue arises.
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Opportunity/Program Screening Questions
A form IPA uses when discussing whether or not to begin a new program or initiative. Good for small nonprofits considering new programs.
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Tri-State CF Partnership Webinar | Talent Management: Developing Your Team
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Over the past decade, many communities have been struggling from “brain-drain” – their best and brightest are being sent off to college never to return. Public, private, and nonprofit entities across the country have been struggling to develop innovative solutions to this problem. Join us to hear the story of how a group of community foundations in Michigan have implemented a Talent Retention Program to incentivize their college-educated youth to return home after obtaining a college degree. Want to start a Talent Retention Program in your community?
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Tri-State CF Partnership Webinar | Fund Agreements-Best Practices
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Fund agreements are critical legal documents that govern how a community foundation operates. This webinar will cover the key elements of a fund agreement, share ideas for creating fund agreements that work over time and provide guidance on how to change a fund.
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Fund the People Toolkit
Fund the People created this toolkit to provide practical guidance, promising practices, and illustrative data to help funders, nonprofits, and others to maximize investments in the nonprofit workforce. Nonprofit people are nonprofit programs. Given this reality, supporting the nonprofit workforce is an effective strategy for increasing performance, impact, and sustainability.
The toolkit features six content areas to help funders and nonprofit organizations invest in the nonprofit workforce as a strategy for improving the impact and sustainability of the organizations: