Strategic Planning and Thinking
This webinar will help you think through your approach to strategic planning.
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This webinar will help you think through your approach to strategic planning.
Learn about FSG's Being the Change report which outlines 12 ways foundations are transforming themselves to transform impact.
This webinar will walk you through the process of hiring an investment manager.
Hear from community foundations who have recently transitioned to different software packages and how they feel about their decisions.
Learn what your peers are doing to recruit and maintain high-functioning boards.
This material is from the 2018 GIFT events and programs.
This webinar is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the key issues, proposals, and players for donor advised funds - the fastest growing giving vehicle in the country.
This webinar shares best practices and processes to pass National Standards.
These sample disclosure forms ask individuals to list their affiliations with other entities that might potentially affect their independent decision making in order to identify potential conflicts of interest based on an expansive definition of affiliated persons.
The Promise Indiana Deep Dive Day was developed after several questions following the session at the IPA/GIFT statewide conference in June 2016. Initially the goals for the day were to assist community foundations in understanding the benefits of the program for their community and what administrative responsibilities would be required to start a program in their community. Now, thanks to the work being done in 14 communities, focus on how this program can change the culture of our communities and our residents was also covered. The Promise Indiana program has brought attention to Indiana from around the country.
In this webinar you will learn what community foundations need to do to pass National Standards.
In this webinar you will gain insight into the development, administration, and marketing of a charitable gift annuity program.
See sample documents below containing job descriptions for positions at private foundations and community foundations.
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Sample board and committee descriptions, including roles and responsibilities of committee members.
The heightened focus on nonprofit accountability in recent years has spurred calls for foundations and public charities to have adequate policies and procedures in place to ensure sound governance. One such policy that has become a recommended best practice for the sector is a whistleblower protection policy, yet most nonprofits still don’t have one. Here are some basic issues to consider when developing a whistleblower protection policy for your grantmaking organization.