Tools / Resources

Growing Smarter: Achieving Sustainability in Emerging Community Foundations Discussion Guide

Eva Nico, Rebecca Graves, Tracy Foster, Fay Hanleybrown

This straight-forward but thought-provoking tool was created for community foundation board meetings as a part of the Growing Smarter: Achieving Sustainability in Emerging Community Foundations study. The guide features a series of questions related to growth and sustainability.

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Activity-Based Costing Toolkit

The Activity-Based Costing toolkit enables you to do an in depth assessment of your community foundation’s products and services and provides data to make informed decisions and improve sustainability.

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Readiness for Organizational Learning and Evaluation Instrument (ROLE)

Hallie Preskill

This instrument is designed to help an organization determine its level of readiness for implementing organizational learning and evaluation practices and processes that support it.

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Shared Value Summit Learning Agenda

This learning agenda was developed during FSG's Shared Value Leadership Summit as a way to help guide upcoming research and launch a CSV community of practice.

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Community Foundation Economic Scenario Planning (ESP) Tool

John Kania, Rebecca Graves, Melissa Scott, Diana Esposito, Valerie Bockstette

A new interactive tool allows community foundations to test the impact of changes in market conditions on their business.

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Trustee Evaluation Toolkit

Mark Kramer, Eva Nico, Samantha Nobles-Block

Trustees and foundations need innovative evaluation approaches to make strategic decisions, better plan work, improve implementation and track progress.

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Aggregating Impact: A Funder's Guide to Mission Investment Intermediaries

Mark Kramer, Sarah Cooch

This guide to mission investment intermediaries highlights the range of intermediaries available and the advantages they offer funders.

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Interactive Strategy Model

The Interactive Strategy Model (ISM) helps community foundations model the impact of strategic changes on their economics. The materials, hosted on the CF Insights website, include a User Guide, Tools and Surveys.

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