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Increase Your Capacity
We help you work smarter, not harder. Achieve
your mission and goals by finding efficient ways
to scale programs, remain nimble, keep pace with
change, and focus on what you care about most.
Our learning communities, databases, and online support tools
connect you with peers, boost your knowledge, and help you
evaluate the effectiveness of your efforts.
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GrantCraft
Tap into the practical wisdom of experienced grantmakers the world over.
Practical wisdom for grantmakers.
GRANTCRAFT
GrantCraft is a valuable resource when it comes to learning and
sharing the craft of grantmaking. We facilitate the exchange of
information among like-minded funders around the globe and
increase the collective knowledge of grantmaking as a whole.
The program's unique approach taps the "practical wisdom" of
experienced grantmakers the world over. A tremendous set of
resources includes tools and techniques available as guides,
videos, cases, and translations. GrantCraft provides you with:
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Real-life examples and tested solutions for overcoming the
hurdles grantmakers face.
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The opportunity to sit at a virtual roundtable with thousands of
experienced professionals from a variety of organizations.
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Easily accessed workshops to help you structure and customize
discussions in your own community.
EXPLORE THE GRANTCRAFT WEB SITE AT:
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Foundation Folders — Free Web Sites for Foundations
We think it's so important for every foundation to have a web site, we'll design and maintain yours for free.
The benefits of a web site.
Without the cost.
Increase your capacity
Communicate your work
FOUNDATION FOLDERS — FREE WEB SITES FOR FOUNDATIONS
Back in 1996, we recognized the importance of a strong web
presence. So we began offering free sites, which we call Foundation
Folders; a service we continue to offer today. Grantmakers who use
it find they receive a higher caliber of proposals and fulfill fewer
information requests by mail, which saves them a good deal of effort
and expense. Unique advantages of a Foundation Folder include:
- Substantial savings in time and budget dollars.
- An easy way to share the impact of your work.
- Free maintenance and technical support.
- Unparalleled personal service.
- The expertise and experience of Foundation Center
web developers.
We also offer a premium level of web site development and hosting
for a nominal fee. It includes your own domain name, site usage
reports, and a password-protected area.
LEARN MORE ABOUT FOUNDATION FOLDERS:
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Custom Web Portals
Custom, curated portals contain foundation grants information, data visualization tools, research, news, and social media that help you do your job more efficiently.
The antidote to information overload.
Scan the landscape
Increase your capacity
Communicate your work
CUSTOM WEB PORTALS
Staying up on the latest developments and best practices is a challenge. That's why we provide custom, curated web portals. Our unique ability to bring together foundation grants information, data visualization tools, research, news, and social media helps you focus and do your job more efficiently. Plus, by leveraging the portals to communicate about your work, you'll reach — and collaborate with — like-minded funders. To see examples of our custom web portals, visit:
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TRASI — Tools and Resources for Assessing Social Impact
Find the right tools to measure your effectiveness, and connect with peers
and experts.
Are your efforts producing the
impact
you envisioned? Find out.
Scan the landscape
Increase your capacity
Help your grantees and applicants
TRASI — TOOLS AND RESOURCES FOR ASSESSING SOCIAL IMPACT
You do what you do in order to make a difference. But how do you
know if your efforts are effective? That's where our TRASI tool
comes in. It stands for Tools and Resources for Assessing Social
Impact and that's exactly what it does — helps you assess the
return on your social investments. It features a searchable, expert-reviewed
database of more than 150 approaches and helps gauge
something that's often hard to quantify. With TRASI, you and your
grantees can:
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Find the right tools to assess the impact you're both having.
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Measure the effectiveness of your programs and strategies.
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Connect with peers and evaluation experts to learn what works
(and what doesn't).
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IT CAN HELP YOU:
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Project Streamline: Improving Grant Applications & Reporting
Grantmakers and grantseekers working together to make more time for what matters.
More time for what matters.
Increase your capacity
Help your grantees and applicants
PROJECT STREAMLINE:
IMPROVING GRANT APPLICATIONS & REPORTING
Administrative burdens on grantseekers can be overwhelming. The
list of hoops for applicants to jump through varies greatly from one
foundation to the next. So we work collaboratively with a variety
of grantmakers and grantseekers to demystify and simplify the
application process. By doing so, everyone in the partnership can
focus on having an impact — and spend less time fighting red tape.
Project Streamline's framework of tools and publications is created
around four core principles which help you:
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Start fresh: Take a look at your organization's application and
reporting requirements.
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Keep expectations in-line: Ensure the effort grantees expend
is proportional to the size of the grant, while also taking into
consideration any pre-existing relationships.
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Relieve the burden: Minimize the amount of time and money
grantseekers spend getting and administering grants, freeing
everyone up to focus on mutual goals.
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Improve communication: Make your processes clear and
straightforward.
VISIT THE PROJECT STREAMLINE WEB SITE
TO SEE IT IN ACTION AND LEARN MORE:
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Grantseeker Training
Refer your applicants to us for essential training and improve the quality of the applications you receive.
Improve the quality of your
grant applications.
Increase your capacity
Help your grantees and applicants
GRANTSEEKER TRAINING
The key to connecting nonprofits with the resources they need to
grow and thrive is education. That's why we focus on teaching the
ins and outs of the grantseeking process. Our curriculum tackles
topics from "developing a fundraising plan" to "securing corporate
partnerships" to "cultivating grantmaker relationships." We offer a
range of free classes, as well as in-depth, full-day courses that take
place in venues around the country and online — thus ensuring an
entry point for large and small organizations alike. All in an effort to
foster better grant applicants by teaching nonprofits to:
- Write better grant proposals.
- Conduct more targeted research so proposals are aimed at the
right funders.
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Demonstrate the impact of their programs.
REFER APPLICANTS TO US FOR
ESSENTIAL TRAINING:
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