Giving Story: Bob's Discount Furniture
A giving story from The Connecticut Toolkit for Giving. Tackling Homelessness
Resources Search
This section features reports, webinars, member spotlights, best practices, sample documents, and resources we believe can help grantmakers and foundations. Some of these items are only available to members. There are several different ways to search the resource library. Using the filters on the right side of this page, you can search by type of Resource Type, Topic, Funding Area, or Audience. For example, if you are looking for a Report, select Resource Type, then you can filter by Audience or Topic to refine the results.
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Giving Story: Charles Kaman
A giving story from The Connecticut Toolkit for Giving. Lifesaver
Emergency Succession Plan Template and Contact Inventory
The Center for Nonprofit Management has developed an Emergency Succession Plan Template that includes plans for short-term, long-term and permanent executive director changes.
Transition Guides
Transition Guides is a website dedicated to sustaining and strengthening nonprofits through better managed leadership transitions and related organizational development.
Accountability Self-Assessment Tools for Unstaffed Private Foundations
The Accountability Self-Assessment Tool is a comprehensive resource to help unstaffed private foundations ensure that they are complying with key federal laws and regulations and assess how well they are engaging in generally recommended good practices for being accountable to the public. The materials consist of a questionnaire, check list, worksheet, glossary and resource list. The questionnaire, available by component or in one complete document, and the entire selection of tools are available in the following sections.
Accountability Self-Assessment Tools for Staffed Private Foundations
The Accountability Self-Assessment Tool is a comprehensive resource to help staffed private foundations ensure that they are complying with key federal laws and regulations and assess how well they are engaging in generally recommended good practices for being accountable to the public. The materials consist of a questionnaire, check list, worksheet, glossary and resource list. The questionnaire, available by component or in one complete document, and the entire selection of tools are available in the following sections.
Sign on Form - Guiding Principles for Connecticut Grantmakers
Haven't signed on the Guiding Principles for Connecticut Grantmakers? Use this form to show that you subscribe to the eight principles, and send it to the CCP office. Your organization will be listed with funders who have already signed on.
Guiding Principles and Effective Practices for Connecticut Grantmakers
Guiding Principles and Effective Practices for Connecticut Grantmakers is a concise resource listing the eight guiding principles for Connecticut grantmaker accountability and suggested effective practices.
CGO Search Criteria
The online database is searchable using nine different input options.
A Plan of One's Own: A Women's Guide to Philanthropy
This guide, a project of New Ventures in Philanthropy, a national initiative of the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, examines women's roles in philanthropy and features “how to” sections on creating and using a variety of forms of charitable giving, as well as working with professional advisors.
Philanthropy Impacts Connecticut Communities
How does philanthropy help your community? Read stories highlighting just a few of the ways philanthropy is working on issues of concern to all of us in Connecticut.
Philanthropy Impacts Connecticut Communities
Read these compiled snapshots highlight just a few of the ways philanthropy is working on issues of concern to us all.
Connecticut PolicyWorks Case Study - Supporting Nonprofit Partners
Public Act 09-102 was signed into law June 2009. Read the Connecticut PolicyWorks Case Study, Supporting Nonprofit Partners, about the collaborative work of the Council, several nonprofit associations and Connecticut policymakers to increase the audit threshold for nonprofits from annual revenues in excess of $200,000 to $500,000.
Lincoln Financial's Sculpture Walk
Read about Lincoln Financial Group Foundation's impact on the quality of life in Greater Hartford.
Impact on reading skills of Hartford Public School K-3 grade students
Read about the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving's impact on reading skills of Hartford Public School K-3 grade students.
School Success for Every Child
Read about the Graustein Memorial Fund's impact on school success for every child.
Impact on Dental Health forConnecticut Children
Read about the Connecticut Health Foundation's impact on dental health for children.
Impact on Obesity
Foundations work together to support SisterTalk Hartford
Impact on Juvenile Justice Reform
Read about The Tow Foundation's impact on juvenile justice reform.
Leading By Example: A Case Study in Foundation Advocacy
Learn how one foundation used a powerful advocacy tool, covening stakeholder groups around Clean Energy and Green Jobs to begin to provide a common vision for a policy initiative.
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