Donor Resources

Designed especially for Community Foundation donors, this section contains a wealth of continuously updated information to inform your giving and assure effective grant making.

National Insights and Trends  
National Insights and Trends
Help on Foreclosures

While the current sub-prime crisis is making credit hard for most everyone to find, low-income ...


Proven Children's Charities Expand Their Reach

Look out Boy Scouts of America and 4-H -- there's a new breed of highly-successful youth ...


Market Volatility Calls for Long-Term Approach to Donating Securities

Donors waiting for just the right time to contribute their stocks to charity will be waiting a long ...


Microfinance's Appeal for Entrepreneurs

If you achieved affluence by building your own successful company, microfinance may provide you with ...


Issues That Matter
Farming on the Up and Up

After reading a little piece by Alan Smith of "Living the American Green," this eco-nerd has ...


Communities of Opportunity

Whether or not one agrees with Barack Obama’s plan to continue to support federal funding of ...


Social Networking Activism

Though a member of "Generation Y" myself, I still feel quite overwhelmed by the seemingly ...


New Thinking on Stronger Cities

Google "stronger cities" and you get first entries about efforts in the U.K. and Canada, and ...


A Perfect Marriage -- Charitable Lead Trust and a Donor Advised Fund

Many legal and financial advisors are suggesting that their philanthropically inclined clients ...


Sustainable Community HealthCare Systems

With so much flying around the media regarding health insurance infrastructure recently, I think ...


A Different Take on "Green" Housing

There is a popular trend toward environmentally friendly buildings, those that take special ...


Big Problems Need Big Solutions

If President Bill Clinton is indeed now returning to the Harlem-based office of the Clinton ...


VIDEO--Farmers Markets are a "Growing" Movement

In this episode of Dialogue for Donors, PhilanthroMedia travels to Philadelphia, PA, where ...


Youth Arts and Resounding Impact

A recent study by the University of Michigan yielded unwaveringly positive results for the ...


Texting to Raise Social Awareness

The Blue Ocean Institute, a conservation organization that seeks to solve environmental issues ...


Adolescent Assets: A "Glass Half Full" View of Youth

In the late 1990’s, a group of researchers decided to turn the telescope on youth 180°. ...


Green Burn-Out

This Texan finally hit the "no more meat" enviro-guilt level when I read a section from the ...


Policy Ideas for Change in the Sector

Colleagues leading community foundation around the country tell me that many of their donors are ...


Education Reform as a Litmus Test for Obama and Others

Great opinion piece by David Brooks in today's New York Times that assesses Obama's true ...


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