WelcomeDOROTHY A. JOHNSON CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY

Mission

The Johnson Center for Philanthropy is a university-based center leading a systems-based, comprehensive approach to serving nonprofits, foundations, and others seeking to transform their communities for the public good.

Vision

The Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy envisions highly valued, effective philanthropy, equipped with expanded knowledge and resources to advance the public good and transform communities.

Through professional development services, courses, trainings, philanthropic tools, and more, we support:

Effective Philanthropy: Helping donors and foundations adopt best practices in their careers and organizations

Strong Nonprofits: Helping nonprofit organizations strengthen their teams, tools, and thinking for better impact

Informed Community Change: Guiding nonprofits, foundations, institutions, and neighborhood groups in using data to do good

Community Research

Institute

The Community Research Institute offers:• Customized tools and• Research services

Designed to help organizations collect and interpret national and local data.

We work with our partners to share this original research for use in:

• Awareness building• Local and regional decision

making• Program evaluation• And more

• Gathers, analyzes, interprets, and shares national and local data with nonprofit and neighborhood groups to assist nonprofit leaders with decision making, grant writing, and program evaluation

• CRI seeks to better communities by:

• CRI maintains MAPAS and Community Profiles

Collaborating

Conducting Applying Measuring

Community Research Institute

Frey Foundation Chair for Family Foundations and Philanthropy

The nation’s first endowed chair focusing on family philanthropy

The Frey Chair works with a network of national advisors and partners to implement a comprehensive program of:• Applied research• Teaching, professional

development• Public serviceDesigned to advance and promote the field of family philanthropy nationally and internationally

Institute for Foundation

and Donor Learning

The new institute brings together three dynamic programs to meet the learning needs of grantmakers and donors.

LearnPhilanthropy.orgPowered by peers and field leaders, LearnPhilanthropy.org is the place to go to learn the basics if you are new to philanthropy or to get up to speed in a new role.

The Grantmaking SchoolOur in-person and online courses are designed for grantmakers who have some experience and are ready to tackle issues like managing a portfolio of grants, developing strategy, or evaluating your foundation's work.

The Foundation ReviewNo matter what your experience level, the peer-reviewed journal of philanthropy is your source for rigorous but readable analysis of tools, results, and sector trends.

LearnPhilanthropy

A marketplace of knowledge and tools from leading organizations in the field.

• Exists to accelerate learning among newcomers to philanthropy and evolve how learning happens in the field

• Helps people overcome learning curves and discover concepts essential to effective philanthropy

The Foundation

Review

First peer-reviewed journal of philanthropy, written by and for foundation staff and boards and those who work with them.

Mission: To share evaluation results, and knowledge about the philanthropic sector in order to improve the practice of grantmaking, yielding greater impact and innovation

Each quarterly issue provides peer-reviewed reports about a specific topic of concern for the field of philanthropy

The Grantmaking

School

First national university-based program for teaching the techniques and ethics of advanced grantmaking.

• Grantmakers play a pivotal role in assessing needs, analyzing solutions and improving lives within the communities they serve

• Courses address the complex work of foundation grantmaking professionals

• Employ curriculum design that is highly rated by grantmakers from more than 200 U.S. foundations

Nonprofit Services

Helps nonprofit organizations strengthen their teams, tools, and thinking for better impact.

• Educate organizations through workshops and seminars

• Coach organizations one-to-one

• Connect organizations and individuals with the resources needed to run organizations successfully

• Provide organizations with good practices

Our State of Generosity

Our State of Generosity (OSoG) is a partnership of scholars, practitioners, and funders from four institutions that collectively form the backbone of the state’s philanthropic, voluntary and nonprofit infrastructure.

The mission of OSoG is to capture, preserve analyze, and share the developments, achievements, and experience that, over a period of 40 years, made Michigan a State of Generosity.

The four collaborating partners in this project are:

• Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy (as the managing partner)

• Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF)• Michigan Community Service

Commission (MCSC)• Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA)