Grantmaker Assessment Tool
The Project Streamline Grantmaker Assessment Tool is an online survey that generates a comparative report about your grantmaking processes.
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Grantmaking With a Racial Equity Lens
A focus on racial equity can increase your effectiveness at every stage of the grant making process.
Grantr
Good Done Great has launched Grantr, the first free online service for verifying a nonprofit's tax exempt status with the IRS.
Grants to Individuals: Investing in People and Their Communities
Although grants to individuals make additional demands on foundations both legally and administratively, they are sometimes the best way to achieve your mission objective.
Guide To The Social Media Landscape
The growing list of online social media sites makes choosing the right route complicated.
Healthy Communities Matter: The Importance of Place to Boys of Color
This report from the California Endowment presents finding from a study of health disparities and trauma among African-American and Latino/ Hispanic boys, the underlying social inequality and negat
Helping Grantees Build Management Skills
Funders can support effective leadership in grantee organizations and foster good management practices by offering resources for training and coaching to build the capacity of nonprofits.
How Can Grantmakers Focus on Nonprofit Talent to Grow Impact?
How Can Grantmakers Focus on Nonprofit Talent to Grow Impact?
How Companies Manage Sustainability: McKinsey Global Survey Results
More than 50 percent of executives consider sustainability-managing environmental, social and governance issues-"very" or "extremely" important in a wide range of areas, including new-product devel
How Do Networks Support Scale?
This briefing paper on Scaling What Works takes a look at how networks can support the efforts of grantmakers to build relationships, harness complementary resources and work together to scale impa
How to Read the IRS Form 990 and Find Out What It Means from the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York
Find out how to read IRS Form 990 and the ten most significant items of information found in it.
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?
Inspire Grant: An Uncommon Approach to Grantmaking
The purpose of this case study is to share with other foundations some of the benefits and lessons learned thus far by the Foellinger Foundation as grantees have implemented an unconventional type
Integrated Foundation Information System Hosted Service Providers and Software
Looking to upgrade your grants management technology? This chart details major foundation information system providers and their products.
Interim Executive Directors: The Power in the Middle
What are the benefits of using an interim executive director during an executive transition?
International Grantmaking Basics
The Council on Foundations International Grantmaking program provides a number of resources on international grantmaking, including a thorough introduction to the primary issues facing funders work
Intersector Transfer of Marketing Knowledge
What is social marketing? Find out how nonprofits use and shape social marketing concepts from the business world from the Social Marketing Institute.
Keeping Your Board Out of Trouble: What Implications Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Passed by Congress Have For Your Nonprofit
What implications does the Sarbanes-Oxley law passed by Congress have for nonprofits? Learn more about recent changes in federal and state laws and find sample policies of use for nonprofits.
Key Findings from the Grantee Perception Report
Funders are making significant changes in their work because of grantee feedback, the Center for Effective Philanthropy says.
Learn Foundation Law
The legal staff at the Packard Foundation, Gates Foundation, Hewlett Foundation and Moore Foundation developed this free, first-of-its-kind resource, which covers the basic legal rules around what