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Template
Indirect Cost for Grantmaking Policy Template
February 2025
Resource for members only
Video
PSW On the Road Denver
November 2023
Partner Resource
The American Dream Prosperity Index
January 2023
Member Service
2023 Membership Renewal Form
December 2022
Member Service
Clone of 2020 Membership Renewal Form
January 2019
Template
COVID-19 Relief Fund Common Application Template
North Texas Cares
April 2020
Disaster Response Resource
COVID-19: Steps The Colorado Health Foundation is Taking to Support Coloradans
The Colorado Health Foundation
March 2020
Public Policy Resource
Private Foundation Excise Tax Sign-on Letters
November 2019
Program Resource
PSW Webinar Recording Board Governance - Deciphering the Form 990
September 2019
Member Service
2025 Membership Renewal Form
January 2025
Template
Lessons from the Field: Creating an Impactful Model for Scholarship Alumni Engagement
March 2019
Member News
Improving Children’s Health Starts with Keeping Kids Insured

By Episcopal Health Foundation CEO Elena Marks and St. David's Foundation Earl Maxwell via Austin-American Statesman

Texas has the highest rate in the nation of uninsured children and is home to one in five of our nation’s uninsured kids...

April 03, 2019
Public Policy Resource
UBIT Coalition Sign-on Letter
March 2019
Webinar Recording
PSW Webinar Recording: Board Governance - Best & Emerging Practices
March 2019
Giving Study
2018 Foundation Giving in Colorado
January 2019
Public Policy Resource
2020 Census: Citizenship Question Resources for Foundations
June 2018
Resource for members only
Giving Study
Philanthropy Southwest's 2016 Giving Study
November 2016
Member Service
2016 PSW Quarterly Newsletters
December 2016
Public Policy Resource
2016 Foundations on the Hill Leave Behinds
April 2016
Resource for members only
Member Service
2014 Connections E-Newsletters Issues
December 2015
Asset Allocation – Driving Returns and Controlling Risk
October 2015
2016 AC Breakout Session, Emotional Intelligence: Strengthen your People Powers
October 2015
Alternative Investments – Their Role in Reducing Risk in Your Investment Portfolio
October 2015
Presentation
Streamline Your Grants Process, Focus More on Mission
October 2015
Presentation
A Lifecycle Approach to Investing in Organizational Capacity
October 2015
Presentation
Pathways Out of Homelessness
October 2015
Presentation
What Philanthropy Can Do to Ease the Water Crisis: A Follow up Conversation
October 2015
Presentation
Family Foundation Transitions: Leadership Succession
October 2015
Presentation
Tax Compliance Issues Private Foundations Need To Know
October 2015
Research
2014 Council on Foundations - Communfund Study of Investment and Endowments for Private and Community Foundations
August 2015
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Member News
New Funding for a Smoke Free Community

Philanthropy Southwest Member Paso del Norte Health Foundation has awarded five grants totaling more than $3.2 million to reduce smoking rates among intermittent smokers, pregnant women, people living with small children, and those who lack the resources to provide for their own well-being. To read the full press release, please click on the file below.

June 25, 2015
Sector News
Charitable Giving in the U.S. Tops Prerecession Mark

A new report on Americans’ charitable giving shows giving has surpassed the prerecession mark. Giving USA 2015 estimates a record $358.4 billion in charitable giving last year, representing an increase of 7.1% over the previous year.

December 31, 2015
PSW News
It was a "wow" experience!

Linda May, Board Chair, The Simmons Foundation and PSW Legislative Network Committee Member

April 30, 2015
Blog Post
Spring Summit: "Something for All"

Philanthropy Southwest upheld its reputation for offering “something for all” at April's Spring Summit in Austin.

April 30, 2015
Member News
The Flinn Foundation Celebrates 50 Years
(Phoenix, AZ) Founded in 1965, Philanthropy Southwest member, Flinn Foundation celebrates its 50th year in existence. Read the complete article in the link below.
April 14, 2015
Public Policy Resource
2015 Foundations on the Hill Leave Behinds
March 2015
Resource for members only
Member Service
2015 Connections E-Newsletters Issues
February 2015
Presentation
2015 Grantor - Grantee Dialogue: Boards for a New Era
January 2015
Guide
2015 Grantor - Grantee Dialogue: Boards for a New Era
January 2015
Template
Harold Simmons Foundation - Sample Grant Review
January 2015
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Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - (operating) Grant Request Summary
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Grant Application Institutional Profile
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Grant Application Current Year Operating Budget
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Grant Application Contribution Analysis
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Grant Application Budget Comparison
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Grant Affidavit
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Grant Application Salary Worksheet
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Grant Application Checklist
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Special Project Grant Request Summary
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Sample Rejection Letter
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Sample of Final Grant Letter Agreement
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Sample of Matching Grant Letter Agreement
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Capital Project Grant Request Summary
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - (grant) Guidelines and Policies
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Sample Award Letter
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Sample of Challenge Grant Letter Agreement
January 2015
General Resource
Abell-Hanger Foundation - At a Glance
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger - Capital or Special Project Checklist
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - Capital Project Funding Summary
January 2015
Template
The Merrick Foundation - Conflict of Interest
January 2015
Template
The Merrick Foundation - Investment Policy 2014
January 2015
Template
The Flinn Foundation - Conflict of Interest Policy
December 2014
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Template
Kirkpatrick Family Fund - Affiliated Fund Investment Objective
December 2014
Resource for members only
Template
Kempner Fund - Approval Letter
December 2014
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Template
Kempner Fund - Declination Letter
December 2014
Resource for members only
Video
The Importance of Advocacy
November 2014
Investment Impact Plus
November 2014
Private Foundations: What Should be Keeping You Up at Night
November 2014
Changing the Investment Perspective
November 2014
Avoiding Labor Pains
November 2014
Vulnerable Children: Hope to the Invisibles
October 2014
High Reliability Schools- Putting the Pieces Together
October 2014
Connecting a Multi-generational Workplace
October 2014
The Power of Investing in Nonprofit Capacity
October 2014
Shifting the Paradigm from Aging in Place to Community
October 2014
It CAN Happen Here: Fraud detection, deterrence and protection
October 2014
An Evolution of Perspectives on Portfolio Allocation
October 2014
Guide
Cracking the Network Code: Impact through Empowerment
September 2014
Guide
From Effective to Inspired: Grantmaking Skills for Trustees and Staff
September 2014
Resource for members only
Technology: In and Beyond the Boardroom
July 2014
Staying the Course: Good Governance in Turbulent Times
July 2014
Research
A Consumers Guide to Grants Management Systems
June 2014
Member News
Stanzel Family Foundation Invests in Nursing Students

Victor and Joe Stanzel established the Stanzel Family Foundation in 1989 to award renewable scholarships to deserving college students. This year, the Foundation funded six scholarships for the Licensed Vocational Nursing – Transition Program at...

June 06, 2014
Tax Extenders in Limbo

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing last week to discuss the perennial issue of the tax extenders, the temporary tax provisions that expire year after year and are usually renewed. However, dozens of provisions that expired at the...

April 17, 2014
Presentation
Toward a Common Good: Maximizing Economic Opportunity, Access to Education, and the Contributions of New Americans in Texas
April 2014
Public Policy Resource
2014 Foundations on the Hill Leave Behinds
March 2014
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Member News
The Miles Foundation Receives Inaugural Junior Achievement Impact Award

Fort Worth, Texas - Junior Achievement of the Chisholm Trail presented its first-ever “Junior Achievement Impact Award” to The Miles Foundation on November 13, 2013. Junior Achievement (“JA”), is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating...

November 13, 2013
Member News
Communities Foundation of Texas and KERA present "One Crisis Away"

On February 27 @ 7pm KERA’s Krys Boyd Moderated a Free Public Forum on Asset Poverty in North Texas

DALLAS/FORT WORTH – Imagine being so close to the financial edge that a single life event could push you and your family over. According...

February 03, 2014
Member Service
The Path of Legislation
Conference of Southwest Foundations
January 2014
Research
Grantmaker Salary and Benefit Survey
August 2013
Resource for members only
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