3 Grantmaking Approaches for Climate Resilient Communities
Nonprofit leaders shared their ideas on how to seize this critical moment in driving change and, in doing so, shed light on key grantmaking approaches. read more
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Rising to Respond to the Opioid Addiction Crisis
GMA Foundations’ conversation with nonprofit leaders surfaced reasons for hope in responding to the opioid addiction crisis, and 3 focus areas for funders. read more
Right-sized Evaluation for Small Foundations
GMA's preferred approach to evaluation can be framed as monitoring, assessment, and learning — processes embedded in small foundations’ grantmaking. read more
Evaluate workforce development programs as social enterprises
Grantmakers should delve into a few key ideas when evaluating the strength of workforce development programs as social enterprises. Consider the ways - read more
A Family’s Donor-Advised Fund Finds Strategic Focus
A field-building approach helped the Rudolph Family Fund achieve greater strategic clarity and increased impact. read more
Understanding Nonprofit Financial Statements
Workshop: November 13, Boston. For grantmakers at all levels of experience with due diligence. read more
Advisory board guides collaborative conservation grants
A regional environment funder conducts research and consults with an advisory board to help conserve more land at a faster rate. read more
Nonprofit-Funder Relationships, Confident Grantmaking
Recently we witnessed a grant application from a small charter elementary school in an economically struggling port city spark a private foundation board’s enthusiasm in an unusual way. read more
Funder-nonprofit relations matter, but is anyone listening?
The fraught relations between funders and nonprofit organizations was a hot topic in philanthropy last year. The key may be to re-imagine how grantmaking processes are structured. read more
Environmental Action: Fresh Ideas & New Voices
We are inviting environment-facing nonprofit organizations formed in the past decade to join us for lunch and informal conversation. As staff to funders and as humans, we have questions. read more