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    Investments: What Every Grantmaker Should Know Minnesota Council on Foundations Aug/Sept 2004 From the MCF series "Notes", an in-depth look at investments for nonprofits. ...

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    Findings

    Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers

    Considering Your Foundation's Investment Strategy Fidelity Private Foundation Services A good summary of a foundation’s basic fiduciary responsibilities regarding investments. ...

    Does Your Investment Policy Statement Measure Up? Association of Small Foundations Scott Thayer An article from their newsletter, "Essentials" about the importance of investment policy ...

    On the Money: the Key Financial Challenges Facing Nonprofits Today

    by Nancy Burd, 2009 Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Featured Publication*, http://www.geofunders.org/publications.aspx ...

    Managing Foundation Investments: Policies & Practices (PDF) Council on Foundations This booklet covers several key legal and ethical issues regarding foundation investments. www.cof.org/files/Documents/Building%20Strong%20Ethical%20Foundations/Investment_Policies.pdf

     

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    GOSW is a member services organization for funders in Oregon and SW Washington.  They are an excellent resource for any and all questions and resource ...
    "The Council on Foundations (COF) is a membership organization of more than 2,000 grantmaking foundations and giving programs worldwide. We provide leadership expertise, legal services ...
    "The mission of the National Center for Family Philanthropy is to promote philanthropic values, vision, and excellence across generations of donors and donor families." ...
    ASF is a membership organization of nearly 3,000 foundations with few or no staff. ASF enhances the power of small foundation giving by providing the ...
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    "We would like to conduct a social impact study of our members that  illustrate the programmatic impact nonprofits have on the community. We have been able to find reports for the economic impact of nonprofits, but not a compilation of their social impact, their program benchmarks, as it were. Do you know of any reports or organizations that are doing this kind of work that we could link with or use their survey work?"

    Indeed, we have extensive information here:

    Social Impact of Nonprofits
    Philanthropy and Social Impact

     

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