This 2001 investment policy update by Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation is designed to align with the philanthropic mission of the organization. It includes details on investment philosophy, spending and goals, guidelines, and exclusionary and inclusionary screens consistent with the foundation’s mission and values.
This brochure by Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation provides a statement of how diversification of the Board and staff has enriched the foundation’s focus and strategies.
This 2012 report by the Funders for LGBTQ Issues, stems from a campaign to launch a multi-year initiative to increase grantmaking and strengthen lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) and people of color (POC) organizations and communities. This report focuses on the stories of five foundations that have made an intentional commitment to engaging communities […]
This 2009 guide by the Council of Michigan Foundations provides a chronology of the Board’s multiple steps toward growing institutional commitment to diversity and inclusion during 2002-2009.
This 2011 project by the Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) was The California Endowment’s (TCE) first internal organizational assessment of the foundation’s diversity and inclusivity policies and practices. This assessment, which produced the TCE Diversity & Inclusivity Report Card, was a voluntary effort to increase the institutional effectiveness of The Endowment’s grants portfolio and institutional […]
