Upcoming Courses
ESS Course Dates:
Will you be offering Essential Skills and Strategies workshops? If so please email leaders@cof.org to add your workshop(s) to this calendar
Session 2 materials
(SAVE FILES BEFORE OPENING)
- Slides for in-class presentation with delivery instructions [ppt]
- Planning guide [pdf] for faculty and sponsoring organizations
Handouts for Participants
- Participant guide [pdf]
- Bringing Personal Accountability on Board [pdf] (Foundation News & Commentary)
- Conflicts of Interest at Foundations: Avoiding the Bad and Managing the Good [pdf] (BoardSource)
- Grantmaking in an Age of Terrorism: Some Thoughts About Compliance Strategies [pdf]
- Keep, File, Toss? [pdf] (Foundation News & Commentary)
- Proposed Governance Principles: Large Foundation Discussions
- Sample Value, Vision, and Mission Statements: The Warner Foundation
- Self-Dealing Snares [pdf] (Foundation News & Commentary)
- Self-Dealing: A Concise Guide For Foundation Board and Staff [pdf] (Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers)
- Sharing Employees
- Sharing Office Equipment and Supplies
- Tickets to Fundraisers
- Turning Values into Vision
- Values, Vision, and Mission - What's the Difference?
- When Bad Things Happened to a Good Foundation [pdf] (Foundation News & Commentary)
- Resources for New Grantmakers [pdf] (only for participants who did not receive a copy with Session 1 handouts)
- Evaluation form [pdf]
Navigating Legal and Ethical Issues
Delivery time: 2.25 hours
This session will help participants understand:
- six basic rules all grantmakers should live by
- ethical issues common to grantmakers
- strategies for managing ethical challenges
This session will prepare participants to:
- conduct grantmaking that is within customary due diligence requirements
- recognize and manage ethical challenges