Site visits are a very valuable tool for funders, because they give you first-hand insight into the places and personalities that will put your charitable
Over the past few years, I’ve been working with more and more foundations that choose to actively engage in public policy discussions as part of
For several years now, funders have found themselves amid a rising tide of metrics and data. We look to numbers to tell us if we’ve
“Policy” is a four-letter word within many foundations. That’s probably because policy is a gateway to advocacy, which can lead to lobbying. And that, if
When meeting with potential new clients, I am occasionally struck by their “what can you do for me?” or “how much do you charge for
It’s back-to-school time across most of the country, and my colleagues and I have all been trading stories of the build up to that first
Foundations spend a lot of time and money defining the messages they want to share about themselves and their work, but those messages don’t always
I recently wrote about the phrase funders say that terrifies grantees: “We’re about to start a strategic planning process.” Although there are many things I listed that you
I love developing new grant initiatives for foundations and individual philanthropists. There is nothing more exciting that identifying a problem where you have the potential
The church shootings that took place in Charleston, SC were horrific, especially for those directly touched by the violence and hatred that spawned the attack.
In my experience, few words strike fear in the hearts of foundation grantees like the following, when dropped by a program officer’s lips: We’re about
This is a guest post by Susan Crites Price, and it was originally posted on The National Center for Family Philanthropy’s blog Family Giving News