Essentials

This carefully curated periodical features top content from our blog, resources, and publications.

Find advice and inspiration on a single theme written by fellow members, trusted colleagues, and our expert staff. This exclusive member benefit can help focus your giving and spark conversations with other lean funders.

Essentials: Greatest Hits

This issue of Essentials covers important and enlightening topics—material you will return to repeatedly. In this, the capstone issue of Essentials, we highlight the articles that have proven most popular and helpful to lean funders over the years. It includes basic nuts and and bolts of philanthropy, like “Essentials for Creating Grant Guidelines,” “Is This Self-Dealing? Three Quick Questions to Ask,” and “Foundation Recordkeeping: A Quick Guide.” As well as articles that center on more advanced but equally crucial topics like “Grantmaking for Equity: Essential, Fundamental Practices,” “A Call for Catalytic Leadership in Philanthropy,” and “I Used to Be on the Other Side: Reducing the Power Dynamic in Philanthropy.” Download the last issue of Essentials >>

Essentials: Greatest Hits

Archives

Simplifying Grant Applications and Reporting for Nonprofits

Equitable Grantmaking: Essential, Fundamental Practices

Foundation Operations and Management Report

2024 Annual Conference

Equity in Practice: A Conversation with the Grunin Foundation