Validating the Tax Status of a Charity: A private foundation must validate the IRS exempt status of every 501(c)(3) public charity every time it makes a grant to it. Making Scholarship Grants: M…
A private foundation is a remarkably powerful vehicle for charitable giving. With power, however, comes responsibility. Private foundations are legal entities that are subject to sound governance a…
A Global Gaze: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Grantmaking in the Global South and East examines the state of LGBTI grantmaking and organizations in the global South and East. As t…
As organizações de mulheres do Brasil e do Cone Sul (Argentina, Chile, Uruguai, Paraguai) estão enfrentando uma crise de financiamento que ameaça sua sobrevivência,a promoção e a defesa do…
This newest edition of the classic book shows how anyone can align and integrate values, passions, and dreams for their communities and families into their plans. Inspired Philanthropy explains how…
The Art of Hiring Leaders: A Guide for Nonprofit Organizations describes the executive transition process beginning with the board, through all the steps of the search process including a chapter o…
Ruth Chance was a witness to the 20th Century. For seventeen tumultous years of the 1960s and 70s, she led the Rosenberg Foundation of San Francisco in making grants to California's disenfranchised…
Grantmakers tend to be cautious about funding advocacy, and for good reason - yet advocacy can play a crucial role in advancing a foundation's mission. In this guide, contributors explain that advo…
GrantCraft combines the practical wisdom of funders worldwide with the expertise of Foundation Center to improve the practice of philanthropy. Since 2001, GrantCraft has delivered the knowledge fun…
Whether it's introducing new ideas into your foundation or offering constructive feedback to a grantee, grantmakers can develop personal strategies to meet the "soft" challenges of grantmaking. Eff…
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations exists to help grantmakers turn their desire to improve into real progress. That’s the power of the GEO community. With more than 7,000 grantmakers across…
Identifies grantmaker practices that better support grantees' impact and sustainability: providing general operating support, multiyear funding, and partnerships. Offers a guide for implementing ch…
In Investing in Leadership — Vol. 2: Inspiration and Ideas from Philanthropy's Latest Frontier (60 pages, PDF), Grantmakers for Effective Organizations examines what grantmakers are doing to buil…
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations exists to help grantmakers turn their desire to improve into real progress. That’s the power of the GEO community. With more than 7,000 grantmakers across…
Provides a retrospective evaluation of the Mott Foundation's Community Foundations and Neighborhood Small Grants Program, and looks at common factors that contribute to the sustainability of small …
This final report incorporates input from the US charitable community gathered through field hearings and conference calls. It proposes an integrated package of actions to be taken by charitable or…
The Panel on the Nonprofit Sector released Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice: Guide for Charities and Foundations in October 2007, based on comprehensive analysis of over 50 syste…
MicroEdge GIFTS is a cloud-based grant management solution. It caters to community, education and faith-based foundations, corporations, financial services providers, government agencies and philan…
Beginning with the 2008 annual report, we are providing an account of our grant activity for the year, rather than simply our grant awards. With our nascent use of various funding methods—growth …
Several years ago Jerold Panas started a file called "Good Stuff!" In it, he started saving bits and pieces of fundraising wisdom delicious morsels that were too good to throw away, but that he …