Posted on September 27, 2012
From Transactional to Transformational
From Transactional to Transformational
The critical elements of "transformational" grantmaking include the building of organizational capacity, development of community leaders, a shared vision, connecting and collaborating, and partnering with grantees, a report from the Cherokee Preservation Foundation finds. The report, From Transactional to Transformational, shares lessons the foundation learned over ten years as it shifted from a transactional strategy, with a focus on specific program areas, to a transformational approach in which it made a long-term commitment to its grantees and community and focused on capacity building and leadership development as much as specific outcomes in a program area — an approach it deemed better suited to the realities of a tribal lands-based strategy. Using examples and case studies of the foundation's grants, the report illustrates approaches for each of the five critical elements that are especially important in a tribal lands context.
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