Assessing the How of Grantmaking
Publication date:
04/2014
This GMN guide helps funders measure the effectiveness of current practices by assessing five core questions every grantmaker should be able to answer about how it makes grants.
Grants Managers
Networking Tips for Job Seekers
Publication date:
04/2014
As you build your professional network, you will increase your knowledge of the sector, visibility, and awareness.
The Effective Exit: Managing the End of a Funding Relationship
Publication date:
05/2013
In grantmaking, is there such a thing as the good goodbye? Yes, say contributors to this guide, who have found ways to plan for exits upfront, clarify expectations with grantee organizations, and overcome the tensions that so often arise. Learn how to use the end of a funding relationship to boost a grantee's capacity, find new sources of support, and even multiply the value of the foundation’s investment.
Smarter Relationships, Better Results: Making the Most of Grantmakers' Work with Intermediaries
Publication date:
04/2013
Grantmakers often work with intermediaries to extend their reach and impact. GEO’s digital funders' brief offers insights from intermediaries and examples of grantmaker practices that help or hinder the effectiveness of intermediaries. Readers will find a breakdown of three grantmaker-intermediary relationship models, step-by-step relationship building recommendations, and more.
Using Financial Statements Together with IRS Form 990 to Understand Your Potential Grantees
Publication date:
04/2013
Learn how the IRS Form 990 and financial statements can best be used together to interpret the financial status of an organization.
Beyond the 990: Effective Nonprofit Financial Data Analysis - WEBINAR
Publication date:
04/2012
In this webinar, financial experts from the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) provided instruction on what to look for when reviewing nonprofit financials—imparting five steps for assessing financial health.
Looking at IRS 990 Forms
Publication date:
03/2012
Participants learned what information can be gleaned from the 990 form and what has changed within the form since prior years.
What to Look for in a Nonprofit's Financial Statement
Publication date:
03/2012
In What to Look for in a Nonprofit's Financial Statement, participants learned how to analyze and evaluate nonprofit financial statements and know what questions to raise for further analysis. They walked through a set of financial statements, focusing on definitions and relationships of numbers.
Can Feedback Fuel Change at Foundations?
Publication date:
05/2011
When foundations make a commitment to getting consistent feedback from their grantees that is candid and comparative, they can make substantive changes that result in different—and better—grantee experiences. Foundations that use the Grantee Perception Report (GPR) more than once are making changes that are benefiting the organizations they fund. In addition to describing the data, the report identifies four keys to driving change as a result of the GPR, based on CEP’s experience delivering results to some 200 foundations.
On the Money
Publication date:
09/2009
This Grantmakers for Effective Organizations publication highlights the financial challenges nonprofits face and the ways in which grantmakers are both improving the situation as well as perpetuating the problem.
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