Who is Working Well Together? Marguerite Casey Foundation
Seattle-based grantmaker builds regional networks of organizations working to engage low-income families as advocates for change.
Resource Type: Playbook
Who is Engaging Stakeholders Well? Orton Family Foundation
Vermont foundation adopts high-engagement approach to supporting cities and towns to design a brighter future.
How Can Grantmakers Facilitate Connections and Collaboration?
The urgency and complexity of the problems nonprofits and grantmakers are trying to solve demands that we come together to exchange knowledge and insights from our work and combine resources. Convenings are powerful vehicles for amassing shared knowledge, building trusting relationships and laying the groundwork for collective action. And, grantmakers are well positioned to provide the types of support to catalyze, develop and sustain these efforts.
Who Is Supporting Nonprofit Financial Sustainability? Cuyahoga Arts & Culture
Ohio grantmaker using cigarette-tax funds to invest in arts and culture makes general operating support a priority.
Who Is Working Well Together? DentaQuest Foundation
Aiming to build a national movement, funder focused on oral health supports learning communities of grantees.
How Can We Target Our Leadership Development Support?
It can sometimes be difficult to pinpoint the leadership capacity needs of grantees and develop strategies to effectively address them. By listening closely, considering the full context in which nonprofits operate and clarifying desired goals, grantmakers can find ways to improve their support for nonprofit leadership. The expanded answer outlines a framework to help guide grantmakers’ thinking about the different levels and domains leadership development support can cover.
Who is Having Success with Learning? The Colorado Health Foundation
Grantmaker refines evaluation model to enhance grantee and organizational accountability, while positioning it to inform and support decision-making.
What is Coaching and What are the Benefits?
Coaching is a process that supports individuals to make more conscious decisions and take more effective action. In a coaching relationship, an individual with leadership and coaching experience (the coach) provides customized support to one or more nonprofit leaders (coaches) for a limited period of time.
In Search of Strategic Solutions
This publication is the result of a five-year national study on strategic restructuring of nonprofits.