You may be stewarding your nonprofit partnerships responsibly, but are you stewarding them responsively? First, grantmakers must redirect their understanding of the term stewardship. Rather than taking on the role … Continued
The PEAK2023 hybrid session “How to Effectively Operationalize Your Tech and Process Changes” featured Jamie Fawcett, data lead at Grantbook, a consulting firm dedicated to helping funders operationalize transformational grantmaking, … Continued
Grantmakers grapple with how to value the time a grantseeker spends completing the grant application, wrangling the financials, and perfecting work samples. Will the grant award fully cover the time … Continued
In 2021, our foundation partnered with the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust on a request for proposals (RFP) titled “Supporting Grassroots Efforts to Promote Equitable Early Childhood Systems.” And even … Continued
Sponsored by WizeHive It’s no longer status quo for foundations, associations, universities, corporations, and governments to assume that, with good intentions alone, their grant program is producing the desired outcomes … Continued
Some fifteen years ago, I was blissfully sledding with my family when I suffered a brain aneurysm. In a moment, I went from playing with my three- and five-year-old kids … Continued
The philanthropic sector has recently made a notable shift toward factoring equity into its grantmaking, considering big questions of historic and ongoing differentials in access to resources based on race … Continued
Too often, funders fail to consider the total cost of their grants, creating funding gaps that have a disproportionate impact on smaller nonprofits and organizations of color. Grantees that lack … Continued
People working in the philanthropic sector are familiar with the problems of monitoring and evaluation in our field. Funders want to ensure that their investments have an “impact,” so they … Continued
This past summer, I revisited a perennial question: What are funders doing with the reports that grantee organizations are required to submit as per their grant agreement? The Center for … Continued