Work Smarter, Not Harder

Create space to work on what’s most important to you and your organization.

Strengthening Connections With Your Nonprofits

Nonprofit professionals share insight into how funders can best support them.

Connecting Resources: Successfully Setting and Managing Expectations for Fiscal Sponsorships

Set expectations based on workloads, reporting, vendor relationships, and financial goals.

Connecting Tomorrow's Leaders: Advance Your DEI Work Through Board Diversity

Promote board diversity through individual and agency training and grantmaking practices.

Connecting Beyond the Check: Building Trust with Grantee Partners

A panel of private funders share stories about unique ways they are bringing community members into the grantmaking process and building better relationships with their nonprofit partners.

Connecting Your Impact to Investments

Cyrus Kharas from Arabella Advisors discusses the basics of impact investing. He then leads a conversation around a case study of the Richard W. Goldman Family Foundation.

Connecting Your Impact Reporting to Your Community Through Storytelling

Listen as Laura Wickizer, grants manager for the City of Muskogee Foundation, and her fellow panelists share their clear and transparent storytelling techniques and best practices.

360-degree Connection: Experiences from Participatory Grantmaking

Watch this on-demand webinar to hear what community foundation leadership, board representatives, and participating nonprofits learned from the experience.

Connected Communities: Pairing Responsive Grantmaking with Actionable Data

Hear how St. Luke’s Foundation in Cleveland, OH is taking community connectedness to the next level.

Mindful Connections: How integrating mental health funding can amplify your impact

This webinar highlights the partnership between Kinschner Family Foundation and Mindful Philanthropy—an organization dedicated to helping funders increase their impact by integrating mental health.

Listen, Learn, and Rebuild with Resilience

Hear how The POISE Foundation has embraced change and taken action to scale back its forms by listening and learning from its applicants, adjusting, and then rebuilding in a way that helps applicants.

Nonprofit Resiliency Through Collaborative Education

The Gifford Foundation and consulting partners discuss how they've worked together to build educational initiatives that further the goals of the foundation and their community to build resiliency.

Collaboration for Impact

Looking for ways to increase your impact? Listen as two Outsized Impact award nominees and funders share ideas for reaching into your partner network for collaboration opportunities.

Maintaining Human Connection - 6 months later...

There have been many lessons learned in 2020 in an ongoing effort to navigate maintaining human connection. Hear insights from Foundant and Foundant clients who have developed their own strategies.

Agile Philanthropy: An Organizational Mindset

This webinar presentation features Chris Staib, Founder of Agile Slopes and our Agile Trainer, who shares how philanthropic organizations can use the agile methodology.

Trust and Transparency Through an Agile Mindset

Today’s world requires us to be responsive to changing needs - shifting from an original plan to plan B, C, and sometimes even D. At Foundant, we’ve worked to implement Agile Methodologies.

Trust and Transparency Through an Agile Framework

Maintaining Human Connection in a Virtual World

Foundant has implemented strategies to enable remote work environments that also maintain relationships. Hear from several key members of our team on how they've made the virtual workforce a reality.

The Why, How, and What of Data Collection

Data is powerful—with it you can more effectively make decisions about prospective programs, evaluate the impact your dollars are having in your communities, and ensure your mission is being met.

Scholarship Committee Management: Stewarding Your VIP Volunteers

Hear the most significant lessons we've learned in our years of committee management, including how we've adapted both our tactics and perspectives - and how that's changed our committee engagement.