This 2012 publication by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations features the Council of Michigan Foundations’ Peer Action Learning Network (PALN) as one of six in-depth case studies on learning communities. The PALN was formed to strengthen participant organizations’ capacity in diverse and inclusive leadership, management, and grantmaking. This report explores how learning communities can be powerful […]
This resource guide by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has been prepared as a shared tool for building a community of connected, informed and engaged practitioners. It provides practical resources that will assist those community-based organizations engaged in the fields of healing, equity and inclusion, diversity and the elimination of structural racism.
This 2009 paper written by the Council of Michigan Foundations in collaboration with the Diversity in Philanthropy Project, synthesizes themes and highlights examples and lessons from the Knowledge Symposium on Diversity and Inclusion in Philanthropy: The Michigan Experience held on March 2‐4, 2009 in Detroit, and pre‐symposium interviews with approximately 20 Michigan foundations and 17 […]