Resources
Melinda French Gates Says Her Future Giving Will Be Guided by Feedback from Nonprofits, Not Just Metrics
Centering Grantees with Reporting Alternatives
The Sustainability Diagnostic Tool
Strengthening Nonprofits: The Value of Complementing Multiyear GOS Grants with Capacity Building Supports
Why Do We Bother? The Tragedy of Foundation Reporting Requirements
Capacity Building: Entrusting Arts Orgs to Bring Themselves to the Next Level
Rodan Family Foundation: Building a Thriving Jewish Community by Funding with a Racial Equity Lens
5 Ways MacKenzie Scott’s $8.5 Billion Commitment To Social And Economic Justice Is A Model For Other Donors
Philanthropy Is Not Enough
Adina Poupko, Natan’s New Executive Director, Sees More Co-funding in its Future
Fix the Form! A Campaign to Curb the Byzantine Process of Applying for a Grant
Getting Buy-in for Monitoring and Evaluation: Tips for Managing Resistance to Donor-Driven Accountability Requirements
How Strong Grantee Relationships Lead to Unexpected Opportunities
Expanding the Network of Who We Listen To
Improve Your Grantmaking-Grantseeking Relationships with This New Tool
Investors Trust the Companies They Support. Here’s How Grant Makers Can Do the Same
Four Ways Foundations Make Bad Decisions
Unrestricted Giving and the Golden Rule for Funders
Project Grants Need Not Be The Enemy
Relationships Matter: Introducing GrantED
Understanding the Grantee-Funder Relationship
Grantmakers and Grantseekers In Conversation: David Cygielman and Jim Heeger
JFN: Funders and Power
How Philanthropy needs to Transform to Meet the Challenges of the Moment
Moving the Rooms of Power: Participatory Philanthropy is Gaining More Traction
Deciding Together - Shifting Power and Resources through Participatory Grantmaking
Learning from Two Decades of Grantee Relationships
Putting Grantees at the Center of Philanthropy
A Guide to Funding with a Gender Lens
Power Moves: Your Essential Philanthropy Assessment Guide to Equity and Justice
How Racial Equity Supports Better Grantmaking Practices
Foundations That Are Serious About Achieving Equity Need to Rethink How They Work
Community Centric Fundraising Aligned Actions Checklist
Tips for Effective Grantee Relations
The Grantsmanship Center: One Program Officers Candid Tips for Grantseekers
A Statement of Values to Guide Philanthropic Collaboration
Culture of Feedback Case Studies
Philanthropy and COVID-19 in the First Half of 2020
Building Grantmaker Relationships in a Non-Relationship Society
Build Your Grantmaker Relationship
Five Things Nonprofits want you to Know Right Now
It is Time to Completely Reimagine the Role of Program Officers
Deepak Bhargava: Let’s Rewrite the Social Contract between Grantmakers and Grantseekers
Crucial Donors - How Major Individual Donors can Best Support Nonprofits
The Next Horizon: From Program Evaluation to Field Building Research
Private Foundations Plan to Increase Grantmaking
Universal Grant Applications: A Win for Funders and Grantees
Common Grant Application of Western PA
How Philanthropists can get Smarter about Risk Management
New Attitudes, Old Practices: The Provision for Multiyear General Operating Support
What’s Stopping Foundations from providing Multi-Year Grants for Nonprofits’ Operations?
Why Funding Overhead is Not the Real Issue: The Case to Cover Full Costs
Raising Up Overhead: How We Can Do Better
Foundations Respond to Crisis: Lasting Change?
Improving Organizational Health for Greater Impact
How to Best Prepare for an Evaluation as a Grantmaker or Grantseeker
Feel Like Grant Applications Are Wasting Your Time? You’re Right, According to a Recent Analysis
Fay Twersky: Philanthropy That Listens and Responds
How Spending Down Deepened A Pacific Northwest Funder’s Relationship with Grantees
What Makes a Bad Grant? It’s Time to Change How We Decide
A Plea From Community Nonprofits for Investment, Equity, and Less Bureaucracy
How My Nonprofit Formed an Unlikely Partnership with the Hewlett Foundation
Really Giving: Four Ways to Democratize Philanthropy
Moving from Deceit to Trust: The Necessity of Listening
How Kat Taylor and Taj James Are Challenging Philanthropy to Take Bolder Steps to Shift Power
A Year of Crisis Forced Foundations to Change Bad Practices. They Should Never Revert to the Old Ways.
Post-Pandemic, One Family Foundation Leader Shares Her Plans to Give More and Simplify
It’s Not Advice My Grantees Need. They Need My Access to Power and Money.
Covid’s Impact on Philanthropic Relationships
America’s Billionaire Philanthropists Gave Away More During The Pandemic. But There’s A Catch.
Giving Circles: A Growing Force for Democratizing Philanthropy
Great Grantmaker-Grantseeker Relationships: A Toolkit for Funders and Nonprofits
Revolutionizing the Way Fundraisers and Donors Interact
Grantmakers and Grantseekers In Conversation: Jon Adam Ross and Ayalon Eliach
Grantmakers and Grantseekers In Conversation: Joni Blinderman and Ilana Ruskay-Kidd
Funder Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic (report)
Participatory Grantmaking Matters Now More than Ever
Participatory Grantmaking - Has its TIme Come?
How to Redistribute Power Between Grant Makers and Charities
Giving Jewish: How Big Funders Have Transformed American Jewish Philanthropy
CEP Grantee Perception Report
What Gives? Lila Corwin Berman: How Political is American Jewish Philanthropy?
The Ethical Rainmaker - Meaning Well Isn’t Good Enough with Vu Le
Strategies for Driving Equity in Grantmaking
Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens
A Call to Modernize American Philanthropy (Q&A with Edgar Villanueva, the author of “Decolonizing Wealth”)
Why is it so Hard to Retain Donors?
Key Findings from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation 2019 Grantee Perception Report (PDF)
Staying Connected: How Five Foundations Understand Those They Seek to Help
Exploring Openness through Listening and Learning
Foundations are Breaking all the Rules in the Pandemic: They Need to Keep Doing That
Relationships matter - Program Officers, Grantees, and the Keys to Success
Unicorns Unite: How Nonprofits and Foundations can Build EPIC Partnerships
10 Ways to Improve Relationships with Grantmakers
How do I approach a Funder and Build a Foundation and Build a Successful Funder-Grantee Relationship?
Great Funder-Nonprofit Relationship Building Toolkit
Giving Done Right - Making and Measuring Impact
Foundations Should Address the Pro-Grantee Revolution: Part 2
Philanthropic Foundation Responses to COVID-19
New York/New Jersey Common Grant Application
On Trust and Risk: Providing Multi-Year Grants for Nonprofits’ General Operations
Making It Happen: A Conversation Guide (companion to “New Attitudes, Old Practices”)
Smarter Grantmaking in Action: Social Venture Partners Arizona
Growth Mindset - The Evolution of Tricia and Jeff Raike’s Philanthropy
A Graphic Re-Visioning of Nonprofit Overhead
Integrating Capacity Building and Strategy: A Handbook for Next Generation Grantmakers and Grantees
Relational Grantmaking: A Learning Series
Exploring Participatory Grantmaking in the Jewish Community
How to Prepare for an Evaluation: The Four Questions Toolkit
What’s Next for Philanthropy in the 2020s: Seeing Philanthropy in a New Light
Understanding the Risks of Non-Participation in Philanthropy
Small Steps in the Right Direction
An Inside Look Into a Music Funder’s Democratized Grantmaking Process
How Do You Make Grantmaking Easier for Foundations and Nonprofits? Ask the Propel Funders.
How Philanthropy Can Make the Quantum Leaps Society Is Counting On
The Power of Ethical Philanthropy
How Trust-Based Values Can Transform Philanthropy
Just Say No: The Art of the Turndown
Foundation Embarks on New ‘Equitable’ Approach to Grant Making
How the 10 Biggest Foundations Changed in a Year of Covid — and What’s Next
To Advance Racial Equity, Foundation Boards Need to Take an Active Role
Three Lessons I Learned As A Nonprofit CEO Made Me A Smarter and More Effective Philanthropic Consultant
Shared Gifting
Funding Performance: How Great Donors Invest in Grantee Success
The Grantmaker & Grantseeker Relationship What We Know and How We Can Strengthen It
How the CEP Grantee Perception Survey Helped a Jewish Foundation Strengthen Relationships with Grantseekers
Grantmakers and Grantseekers In Conversation: Jory Hanselman Mayschak and Vanessa Bernier
Grantmakers and Grantseekers in Havruta: Six Practices for Collaboration and Conversation
sgEngage, Episode 145: Trends in Grantmaking During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Designing Partner-Centered Grantmaking Processes
Moving Beyond Feedback - The Promise of Participatory Grantmaking
The Performance Imperative
Lessening the Power Divide in Philanthropy
D5: Policies, Practices, and Programs for Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Like Vacuuming, Nonprofit Work is Women’s Work
The Ethical Rainmaker - The Racist Roots of Nonprofits and Philanthropy with Christina Shimizu
Foundations Respond to Crisis: Towards Equity?
How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on their Teams
When we Return to our Foundation Offices Let’s Make Them Spaces where we Collaborate with Grantees
Pulling Back the Veil: Top 5 Things Grantees and Funders Wish the Other Knew
Listening vs. Hearing: A View from the Other Side
The Pitch is Dead: Long Live the Conversation
Insights on Building Honest Communication Between Funders and Grantees
Recommendations for Best Work Practices between Nonprofit Organizations and Foundations (2015-2017): Conclusions from a Series of Meetings of Nonprofit and Philanthropic Foundation CEOs in Israel
Building Our Collaborative Muscle
Smarter Grantmaking in Action: GHR Foundation
Funder-Grantee Collaboration Story: Einhorn Family Charitable Trust & ParentCorps
Ecosystems Thinker - A Profile of the Rose Letwin and Wilburforce Foundation
How Can We Evaluate the Impact of our General Operating Support Grants?
How do I Measure Performance: Both Mine and My Grantees
Foundations Should Address the Pro-Grantee Revolution: Part 1
Foundation CEOs Need to Send the Message that Unrestricted Giving is the New Normal
National Network of Grantmakers Common App
Resetting the Grantor-Grantee Relationship
Making the Case: Foundation Leaders on the Importance of Multiyear General Operating Support (companion to “New Attitudes, Old Practices”)
How Can We be More Supportive of Nonprofit Financial Sustainability?
Trust-Based Philanthropy - An Approach