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From SRI to ESG: The Changing World of Responsible Investing

Publication date: 
09/2013
Thoughtful investment professionals continue to debate whether a portfolio’s long-term performance can be enhanced by including environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations in the security selection process, but responsible investing is more than a passing trend. Long-term fiduciaries should educate themselves on the fundamental arguments for and against ESG, and think critically about its meaning for the institutions they serve.
Resource Type: 
Research
Audience: 
Community Foundation
Topic: 
Investments

Innovative Crossroads:The Intersection of Creativity, Health, and Aging

Publication date: 
09/2013
The strategy session, Innovative Crossroads: The Intersection of Creativity, Health, and Aging, brought together a select number of health, arts, and aging grantmakers invested in the field along with national experts to explore and discuss: how creative expression can improve health outcomes for older Americans, promising programs, challenges facing funders in supporting programs, and opportunities for funders to advance programs and the field as a whole. This paper is a summary and synthesis of the information presented at the national funder strategy session, the topics and issues examined and considered, and the recommendations that emerged from the day’s discussion.
Resource Type: 
Funder Briefing
Audience: 
Program Staff
Topic: 
Advocacy
Funding Area: 
Aging

Our New Storytelling Guide

Publication date: 
11/2012
This guide summarizes much of what we’ve been touching on through our work. But we’re not aiming to reinvent the wheel. There are plenty of great tips and guides available online so we’ll be pointing you to a variety of those, as well as the resources and tools that we have found helpful in our work. This guide is for many of the storytellers in your organization: senior leaders, marketing and communications professionals, evaluation and research professionals. It includes seven chapters plus resources throughout, examples from the for-profit and non-profit world, and an upcoming tools supplement to the guide.
Resource Type: 
Blog Post
Topic: 
Evaluation

Economic Impacts of 2010 Foundation Grantmaking on the U.S. Economy

Publication date: 
11/2012
This report, sponsored by The Philanthropic Collaborative, assesses the economic impacts of 2010 Foundation Grantmaking on the domestic economy. The study was conducted by Steven Peterson, Clinical Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Idaho and Benjamin Fujii, Research Assistant, University of Idaho and completed in November 2012.
Resource Type: 
Research
Audience: 
Policy Makers
Topic: 
Facts, Figures, Trends

Housing America’s Future: New Directions for National Policy

Publication date: 
02/2013
This report, the culmination of a 16-month examination of some of the key issues in housing, provides a blueprint for an entirely new system of housing finance for both the ownership and rental markets. Under this new system, the private sector will play a far greater role in bearing credit risk and providing mortgage funding, and taxpayer protection will be a central goal.
Resource Type: 
Research
Topic: 
Grantmaking
Funding Area: 
Affordable Housing

How AchieveMission Helped the Corporation for Supportive Housing

This case study explores how the Corporation for Supportive Housing worked with AchieveMission to make investments in its human capital management abilities in order to realign its workforce more closely with its strategic goals and therefore improve outcomes and increase effectiveness across the board. This case study is not an evaluation of AchieveMission, its Talent Initiative program or the Corporation for Supportive Housing. Instead, it provides the story of one organization’s experience and how it felt to create sweeping internal changes with an eye toward securing greater impact.
Resource Type: 
Research
Audience: 
Community Foundation
Topic: 
Capacity Building

Grantmakers Information Technology Survey Report

Publication date: 
09/2014
The technology survey is designed to enable grantmaking organizations to make better informed, timely, and cost-­‐effective decisions regarding the technologies that support their grantmaking and fundraising/donor operations. It also is intended to empower grantmakers to make decisions based on information about new trends and how their peers are navigating them.
Resource Type: 
Research
Audience: 
Community Foundation
Topic: 
Technology

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