Practice publications

A guide for those interested in the establishment and ongoing effectiveness of corporate foundations.

This document brings together a list of resources and information to help foundations think about how best to support their staff, and what questions they should consider in addressing staff resilience and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A guide to help foundations deter and detect fraud.

ACF has produced a framework to help foundations think through their approach to safeguarding, based on extensive engagement with members.

Here we look at how to promote our foundation’s programmes and priorities to potential applicants in order to encourage suitable applications – and to discourage unsuitable ones.

Here we look at how to create a grant-making strategy that is right for the particular circumstances of your foundation.

Here we look at the different approaches to managing our application and decision making processes.

Here we look at making a good assessment and using it to support grant decisions which are consistent and well informed.

This guidance highlights changes in the new charities SORP that are likely to be of specific interest to grant making foundations.

This framework is designed to encourage good impact practice and to offer practical and useful guidance for funders.

This guide focusses on the practicalities of spending out and is targeted at foundations which have decided this is the path for them.

This Guide is written to assist both those already funding or operating a corporate foundation and those considering doing so.

This booklet provides guidance for trustees of charitable foundations which draws in particular on the experiences of foundations with a limited life span.

An introductory paper which outlines the important role which trustees play in developing an anti-fraud culture within a grant-making trust.