Join us in celebrating our 20th anniversary by perusing our new website. I am sure that you will spot evidence of the growing reach of our network and the impressive resource base that has been generated by grassroots grantmaking practitioners over these two decades in the stories, tools and resources that you will find. You [...]
In the summer of 2011, Grassroots Grantmakers conducted a survey that asked the funders in Grassroots Grantmakers’ extended network to share information about how they are working to strengthen grassroots leadership. This survey was initiated in response to questions that one funder in Grassroots Grantmakers network was asking, but also responds to questions that have [...]
The Neighborhood Connections staff at The Cleveland Foundation will tell you that of the 150-200 grant applications they receive per round about half get funded. They will also tell you that of the half that gets funded, very few are first-time applicants. For a grants program that was created for the grassroots community, for the [...]
April 12, 2012 Special Guest: Frances Kunreuther, Project Director, Building Movement Project Moderator: Janis Foster Richardson, Executive Director, Grassroots Grantmakers
February 21, 2012 We experienced technical difficulties with the recording for this webinar, and regret that we do not have a recording of this powerful conversation to share. Bill Traynor and Frankie Blackburn generously agreed to share their PowerPoint presentation as well as written responses to the questions that served as the learning objectives for this webinar, however – provided [...]
August 6-9, 2012 Thinking Big About the Power of Relationships Join us this summer in Syracuse for our upcoming On the Ground! We are delighted to be working in partnership with The Gifford Foundation for the next in our series of highly regarded learning gatherings for funders and others who are connecting with and resourcing the groups that [...]
Resident-led grantmaking, with grantmaking committees composed of residents from the neighborhoods that are targeted for capacity building grants, is an emerging trend within the field of grassroots grantmaking. Currently, a number of organizations within Grassroots Grantmakers’ network of funding organizations utilize this practice. Other organizations in our network include neighborhood residents on their grantmaking committee [...]
January 17, 2012 Special Guests: Cheryl King Fischer (Executive Director, New England Grassroots Environmental Fund) Tim Little (Executive Director & Co-Founder, Rose Foundation/Northern California Grassroots Environmental Fund) Kelly Purdy (Associate Director, Global Greengrants Fund) Supporting Materials: The NEGEF Story Lessons from the Grasssroots Capacity Building With Small Groups How We Bring About Change – [...]
Join us in experiencing Grassroots Grantmakers’ On the Ground in Atlanta by viewing this photo journal from the gathering. Photos courtesy of Shannon Dixon, Grassroots Grantmakers’ Research Associate. Thanks again to the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and Atlanta’s Place-Based Funders for so generously serving as our hosts for this memorable On the Ground learning [...]
AmeriCorps VISTA Rachel Oscar is Grassroots Grantmakers’ first AmeriCorps VISTA Member. She comes to Grassroots Grantmakers from Kenyon College in Gambier, OH where she received a BA in History in 2011. Rachel is looking forward to diving into the world of community grantmaking. Over the next year, she will be focusing on resident-led grantmaking, working [...]
May 5-6, 2011 In partnership with The Denver Foundation/Strengthening Neighborhoods. Click the PowerPoint icon below for a visual recap of our fabulous On the Ground experience in Denver. Thanks to Shannon Dixon, Grassroots Grantmakers’ Research Associate, for her wonderful photography that captured the spirit of the gathering. After OTG Denver report 6-3-2011.Final
In The Baltimore Community Foundation’s Spring 2012 Newsletter, Cheryl Casciani, BCF’s Director of Neighborhood Sustainability, shared some important insights on why and how BCF is investing in the passion, energy and creativity of grassroots groups working in citizen space. Look here for Cheryl’s Viewpoint article.
25 senior Community Network Builders’ from around the country converged in Miami this past fall to generate what they called “actionable knowledge” about what they do, how they do it and why they think this work is distinctive and impactful and needed now in struggling American communities. This 2 day convening was sponsored by the [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of attending my first Neighborhood Connections Final Report Party. What is a Final Report Party, you ask? Well, at the close of a grantee’s project year they have the option to complete their final report in several different ways. The first is to write a traditional, [...]
The health of the environment is a significant concern today, where global policy change might seem like the only road to a solution. But Cheryl King Fischer, Executive Director of the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund (NEGEF), knows that individuals are an important key to improving the environment. In the 14 years that NEGEF has [...]
