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A Talent for Streamlining
To be streamlining champions, grants management professionals need to have the skills and attributes to take on this kind of complex and sensitive work.
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Source Codes of Foundation Culture and Streamlining Imperatives
For a field that likes to think of itself as “society’ risk capital,” We’re remarkably stodgy about examining how our own self-imposed institutional constraints may be blinding us to historic opportunities or making us too slow to act.
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Using an Abundance Mentality to Streamline Foundation Processes
Creating an abundance mentality means realizing that the only thing keeping foundation inefficiencies in place is the foundation itself, and that better alternatives are absolutely within reach.
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Net Grants – How Much Is That Grant Really Worth?
I just got back from the Grant Professionals Association conference in St. Louis. It was a great conference with lots of learning opportunities for grant pros. I presented a session entitled “The … Continued
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Reducing the Burden on Our Grantseekers and Ourselves
We see a lot of proposals, ask hard questions, and have high standards. But we try to never make a grantseeker jump through hoops.
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Lessons and Advice for New Systems
Puhleeeeze tell me I don’t really have to answer these three application questions that all ask for the same information, using slightly different words! Why do funders do this?
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road to a New Online System
Six Questions for Gwyneth Tripp, Blue Shield of California Foundation Selecting a new system for application, reporting, and grants management is a significant undertaking. Many grants managers feel understandably overwhelmed … Continued
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Embrace Data Sharing to Help Nonprofits Focus on Impact
In terms of technology, the philanthropic sector is stuck in the past. it’s time for the sector to adopt current technologies that facilitate accurate information exchange and save people from unnecessary work.
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Sharing the Success Means Sharing the Bumps Along the Way
What I have learned over the last three years of working with funders who are true partners in learning and evaluation is how crucial it is to be willing to take a leap of faith and to see the funding relationship as a true collaboration.
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Learning with Diverse Communities Through Culturally Responsive Evaluation
Too often, evaluation discourages and disconnects people instead of engaging them. How can we make evaluation accessible to all?
