Learn about such issues as creating policies, setting compensation, addressing conflicting relationships and avoiding self-dealing, finance, accounting and investment best practices, directors and officers insurance, and determining what information is subject to public disclosure laws.

Get answers on questions related to grantmaking, including international grantmaking, disaster grantmaking, advocacy and a variety of tricky grants.

Maintaining donor relationships and understanding the rules for accepting and acknowledging charitable contributions are important skills for grantmakers who solicit or accept contributions.

Find information about actions that legislative, regulatory and judicial bodies are taking that could affect your organization at the state and/or federal levels. Includes Council analyses of the Pension Protection Act of 2006.

From starting a foundation to scholarship programs, these FAQs help you gain a basic understanding of key issues facing private foundations and public charities..