A Guide to the Challenge Grant
Questions, tips and worksheets developed by the Kresge Foundation for its long-time funding method, the challenge grant.
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Your Toolkit for Successful Evaluations
This resource has been designed and assembled by the Macro International evaluation team with the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as a starter kit to promote the integration of effective evaluation into grantmaker education programs.
Collaborative Funding for Greater Impact
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations' Collaborative ...
Communication for Social Change: An Integrated Model for Measuring the Process and Its Outcomes
How can grantmakers measure if communications for social change are ...
Essentials of Foundation Strategy
This report identifies defining elements of strategic foundation leaders; characteristics of their plans, communications, grantmaking, and assessments; need to back strategic plans with logic model
GIA's National Capitalization Project
This report from Grantmakers in the Arts discusses practices that arts funders ...
Grantr
... a nonprofit's tax exempt status with the IRS. With Grantr, grantmakers and donors can be certain that their grants and ...
How Do Networks Support Scale?
... takes a look at how networks can support the efforts of grantmakers to build relationships, harness complementary ...
Inheriting a Grant Portfolio
How should a grantmaker proceed when they take over a longstanding program only to learn that it needs to be slimmed down and made more effective?
Lessons from the Field: From Understanding to Impact
A case study from the Center for Effective Philanthropy, Lessons from the Field: From Understanding to Impact, provides an in-depth look at how three foundations cultivate an understanding of their
Why Would a Nonprofit Want to Have a Blog?
Why would a grantmaker want to have a blog? Find reasons that nonprofits might want to consider starting a blog and nonprofit examples from the Bamboo Project's Wiki >Web 2.0 in Nonprofits .
What Funders Need to Know: Better Housing Means Better Health
When considering how to improve health outcomes for low-income individuals, most people think about providing access to good medical care and keeping the cost of that care as low as possible. What people rarely think about is the connection between good health and quality affordable housing. This edition of What Funders Need to Know explores these connections and highlights some promising practices by both government and business that help low-income individuals get housed, stay healthier, and lower overall costs.
Member Spotlight: PA IOLTA Board
Saturday, June 23, 2018
... PA IOLTA Board has recently joined GWP and we invited executive director Stephanie Libhart to answer a few ...
Member Spotlight: The Evan and Tracy Segal Family Foundation
Monday, January 13, 2020
... their mission and goals. Please contact Marla Werner, the Executive Director of The Segal Family Foundation, for more ...
Watch Party - We Wear the Mask: The Hidden Face of Women in Poverty
Friday, December 4, 2020 - 12:00pm
... sought-after expert on poverty issues and the executive producer of the documentary. She will be ...
Corporate Giving Webinar Series | CSR as a Tool for Supporting Workforce Development
Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 1:00pm
... or advised funds at a community foundation; however, grantmakers of all types are invited to attend. About ...
Leveraging Social Sector Leadership
... and, just as importantly, stay in the sector? What can grantmakers do to support these leaders? This publication ... conducted by the authors and offers recommendations for grantmakers. Leveraging Social Sector Leadership ...
How Can We Help Our Grantees Strengthen Their Capacity for Evaluation?
... improving programs and better serving communities. While grantmakers generally see evaluation as necessary, most are ... capacity building. By applying these principles, grantmakers can make the most of our evaluation investments ...
Criteria for Philanthropy at its Best
... that will help foundations and other institutional grantmakers operate ethically and maximize the impact of ...
The Power of Partnership: Principles and Practices for Creating Strategic Relationships Among Nonprofit Groups, For-Profit Organizations, and Government Entities
ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership's landmark study and publication 7 ... the mission as one of the hallmarks of a remarkable association. But getting a partnership right is an involved ...