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Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together

Publication date: 
02/2015
In Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together, GrantCraft look at how funders approach building capacity with grantees. Through examples from foundations ranging in size, mission, and geography, we explore various strategies for capacity building and the types of awareness that funders can choose to incorporate in decision making to facilitate informed, thoughtful judgments about strengthening organizations.
Type of resource: 
Research
Best Practice
Funder Briefing
Topic(s): 
Evaluation Capacity Building
Capacity Building
Effectiveness
Knowledgebase

Project Streamline Grantmaker Assessment Tool

Publication date: 
02/2011

The Project Streamline Grantmaker Assessment Tool is an online survey that generates a comparative report about your grantmaking processes. This tool will enable you to compare your grantmaking processes to those of other funders, as well as to the principles described in the report, Drowning in Paperwork, Distracted from Purpose.

Type of resource: 
Best Practice
Topic(s): 
Grantmaking
Knowledgebase

Grantmaking With a Racial Equity Lens

Publication date: 
08/2008

A focus on racial equity can increase your effectiveness at every stage of the grant making process. Explores how a racial equity lens can help you scan your field or community, cultivate new leaders, encourage creative approaches, and nourish change inside your own foundation from Grantcraft.

Type of resource: 
Best Practice
Topic(s): 
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion