| ISSUE NUMBER 1 | MARCH 24, 2014
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4 Ways to Improve Your Grantmaking
There's a lot going on at Putnam these days. We've updated our name (Putnam Consulting Group) and our website (putnam-consulting.com). Best of all, we've created a host of new resources to help our philanthropy clients and colleagues ask deeper questions, explore new possibilities, and achieve dramatic results with their grantmaking.
Tapping into all this knowledge is easy. Below are four ways to learn something new that you can put to work right away:
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Read a blog post. The Philanthropy 411 blog
is as robust as ever, with thought provoking ideas and insights from
myself, my clients and other philanthropy experts. Read the latest
posts; gain quick tips with 10 Ways to Shape Your Foundation's Newest Grantmaking Initiative and learn how to respond to challenging questioners with The Interrogation Principle.
Have each new post delivered directly to your email inbox via RSS, and
share what you read via your own social media networks.
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Listen to a podcast. Driving? Multi-tasking? Stream an informative, concise podcast
and hear great tips for improving your grantmaking practice. Learn how
to increase impact, think creatively about funding, build better
relationships with key stakeholders, and much more. Listen to Who Is Your Customer and What Differentiates My Most Successful Clients and get quick ideas to improve your grantmaking immediately.
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Study a case study. Want to see how different foundations tackled the same problems you may be facing? Peruse a Putnam case study
to see exactly what your peers and colleagues did when faced with
challenges of grantmaking, information sharing, strategy development
and other aspects of foundation operations. For example, learn how we
helped the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation manage a record-breaking RFP process.
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Read and share an article. We have more than 25 new articles
that provide guidance on best practice program design, smart asset
allocation, evaluation, communications, and getting the most out of
your consulting partners. You might be interested in Special Ops: 5 Situations for Deploying a Red Team and Oops, I Forgot To Evaluate! 3 Easy Steps for Retrospectively Evaluating Your Funding Initiative.
That's just a quick sample of what's available on the new Putnam Consulting Group
website. I designed this site to be a resource for grantmakers to help
you give confidently and make a difference in the world. I know you
will find it to be of great value, and I invite you to explore it at putnam-consulting.com. As always, I would appreciate your thoughts and suggestions for making it even more useful and relevant to your work.
Thanks!
Kris Putnam-Walkerly, MSW President, Putnam Consulting Group, Inc.
This email is the inaugural issue of Kris
Putnam-Walkerly's Confident Giving℠ e-newsletter. Confident Giving℠
will be delivered to your inbox every Monday morning to provide quick,
easy-to-implement ideas for boosting your grantmaking effectiveness to
achieve dramatic results. Confident Giving℠ replaces IdeaMail, the
previous newsletter to which you were subscribed.
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Kris Putnam-Walkerly, MSW, is the president of Putnam Consulting Group, Inc. and author of the Philanthropy411 blog.
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