Civil/Advocacy/Policy
Join this workshop with Bolder Advocacy to get a clear understanding of the kinds of advocacy activities you can safely engage in and best practices for grantmaking to give your grantees the most flexibility under the law for their advocacy efforts.
In the final session of this series, Bolder Advocacy’s capacity assessment tools which provide groups with a snapshot of their organizational assets, as well as help them prioritize areas for improvement are explored.
In the second session of this series, Grantmakers will learn why advocacy and policy work are important to achieve their foundation’s mission and how to make a successful case to stakeholders and trustees.
Join the Council on Foundations and the Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals to discuss why and how corporate philanthropy is acting to prevent the funding of hate and extremism.
The first session of this series will provide an overview of activities that constitute advocacy and public policy work; various advocacy roles for foundations; definitions of lobbying; and rules for private and public foundation grants to nonprofits that lobby, including general support, specific projects and multi-year grants.
Join The Funders Network for part one of this two-part series to learn from funders and community-based leaders about practical steps for advancing specific strategies that support equitable implementation of federal spending.
Join this webinar to learn about the Rural Economic Development Cohort, a partnership program with the Council of Michigan Foundations and the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan.
In this webinar the different approaches to supporting advocacy goals and the role that family legacy, responsiveness, and evaluation play in this work will be discussed.

