Tools for funders

  • Giving With Honor Summary

    This manual carefully examines the special legal status that Indian tribes
    are afforded in this county. The government-to-government relationships
    that Indian tribes maintain with the U.S. federal government create both
    opportunities for and obstacles in tribal giving. It incorporates the

  • A New Approach to Grant Making

    A new grant-making approach is paving the way for philanthropies to better support people and causes that are too often ignored ` and offering an opportunity to cultivate new nonprofit leaders and donors.

  • Winter Count Issue of Giving Forum

    Winter Count, a Minnesota Council on Foundations Giving Forum featuring Minnesota Native philanthropy partners. Covering Minnesota philanthropy news by and for grantmakers, givers and nonprofits. The Winter Count issues is sponsored by Native Americans in Philanthropy.

    In this issue:

  • Expenditure Responsibility: "Can a Private Foundation Make a Grant to a Non-Public Charity?"

    A handout, by the Alliance for Justice, providing general guidelines about expenditure responsibility.
    Download

  • American Indian Family Empowerment Program

    AIFEP Magazine: "Preserving American Indian Culture and Values"
    Download the magazine by following this link: www.grottofoundation.org/empower_fset.html
    Scroll down, click on "The AIFEP Magazine" and download the pdf.

  • Large Foundations' Grantmaking to Native America

    This pamphlet presents key findings from a study of large foundations' giving to Native American causes and concerns. It addresses the real dollar value of grantmaking from 1989-2002, top donors and top recipients, and the general purposes to which grants are targeted.

  • The NCG Public Policy Grantmaking Toolkit

    A resource to advance foundation support of public policy.

  • Native Gathering

    Native Americans in Philanthropy celebrates the important work that the Marguerite Casey Foundation has undertaken in Native communities. A consultative session called "Native Gathering: A Meeting with Native American Elders, Activists, Select Funders and Scholars" was an important step towards building relationships and changing philanthropy in Indian Country.

  • Looking Out for the Future: An Orientation for Twenty-First Century Philanthropists

    A book by Katherine Fulton and Andrew Blau of the Monitor Institute and Global Business Network (GBN). The book is the culmination of a four-year project, funded by the Kellogg and Packard foundations, on the future of U.S. philanthropy and how the field is being quietly and fundamentally transformed.

  • The Context and Meaning of Family Strengthening in Indian America

    A Report to the Annie E. Casey Foundation by The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development The framework for "family strengthening" in Indian America is built around Native self-determination at both the personal and community level. This report defines the context in which progress is being made and the reasons why some initiatives and programs are particularly effective; and draws from these examples implications for the roles of the many actors who contribute to the well-being of children and families, tribal governments, non-tribal governments, Native NGOs, non-native NGOs, and philanthropic foundations.

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