Determining where to spend your foundation’s grant funding is an important, and time-consuming task. This primer is designed to help you set up a proposal review process that meets your foundation’s goals and style and frees up time for you to go into the community and develop your knowledge and insight. In this primer, you’ll... Read More
For small foundations, program-related investments (PRIs) can offer an effective way to leverage the impact of limited assets. This primer can be helpful if you want to learn about PRIs, are ready to make your first PRI, or want to refine your PRI process and are looking for some tips. Reading this primer will help... Read More
Site visits are one of the best ways to make grant decisions because in essence, site visits are a living, breathing grant proposal. These visits give you the chance to connect directly with the organization’s board and staff, discover things that can’t be learned from a written proposal, and clarify information that is important to... Read More
Use these forms to record your observations during a site visit. Read More
See how one funder mapped its region’s human services agencies. Read More
Do you truly look at your grants as investments in maximizing the impact on social good? On this webinar, we’ll review five key areas of improvement for operational efficiency and effectiveness – all of which can be implemented swiftly. We’ll use the audience survey tool to find out about your practices. For example, are you... Read More