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 & Trends  
National Insights & 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
Are all Internets Good Internets?

A few weeks ago, I succumbed to a television spot and signed up for Al Gore's "We Can Solve It" ...


America's Dropout Crisis

America's Promise Alliance, warns that, "Before today ends, another 3,000 students will drop out ...


Climate Change Debate Irrelevant?

For me, a professor of Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, the climate change debate is ...


40% of Bill Gates = More Brains, Clout and $

Now that Bill Gates has resigned from Microsoft, many wonder just how much time is he going to ...


Audiocast : Donor Strategies for the Environment

We made this audiocast in 2007, but it is even more relevant today. Now that market forces ...


Homelessness: Which Margins are More

This past Tuesday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development released some startling ...


I Wanted to Find Love

This was the answer given by a young woman named Doua when asked at a Youth Violence Forum ...


Air Quality Outside the Border

When reading the New York Times this morning, I found myself becoming worked up about an article ...


A Distinction Without A Difference

People who know of my background on Wall Street ask me all the time what I've learned about the ...


Response: Inspiring Young People About Civic Engagement

In response to Robert's July 17 post, "Inspiring Young People About Civic Engagement," Janis ...


Rating Human Development

The American Human Development Project has recently launched their index, titled "The Measure of ...


A New Safety Net for Low-Income Families

With funding from the Charles Stewart Mott and Annie E. Casey foundations, a team of Urban ...


Documenting Giving

I've spent much of my time at various institutions of learning grappling with the concept of the ...


New Thinking on Unlocking Board Expertise

In meetings across the country, fellow CEOs have regularly joined me in lamenting the phenomenon ...


KIDS COUNT -- But for How Much?

The Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has just released the 2008 Kids Count Data Book, a national ...


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