Conflicts of Interest: Safeguarding Your Foundation

This statement of principles and practices outlines measures that foundations may take to improve transparency and accountability in finance, governance and grantmaking. Aimed at the members of the Council on Foundations, it is designed to encourage greater compliance and adherence to legal and expected standards of accountability. Resources include articles by the Council on Foundations and sample conflict of interest policies for community foundations, private foundations and corporate giving programs

Unusual Grants: An Online Legal Guide for Public Charities

This resource is a guide to nine areas in which community foundations and other public charities often wish to make grants. It provides links to legal information and resources on grants to religious institutions, grants to non-charitable exempt organizations, international grantmaking, fiscal sponsorships, disaster relief and emergency, hardship grants, scholarships, grants to private foundations and grants from donor advised funds