Contributing Members

Many thanks to our contributing members, leadership members, sponsors and friends:

Contributing Members:

Atlanta Civic Site/Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Baltimore Community Foundation
Boston Rising
The Calgary Foundation
The California Community Foundation
Central Indiana Community Foundation
Community Clinics Initiative
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Community Foundation for Monterey County
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro
Dyer-Ives Foundation
Georgia Council for Developmental Disabilities
The Gifford Foundation
Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation
The Hagedorn Foundation
Hamilton Community Foundation
Humboldt Area Foundation
Incarnate Word Foundation
Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center
Jacobs Family Foundation
The Journey Charitable Foundation
Kalamazoo Community Foundation
The Miami Foundation
New England Grassroots Environmental Fund
The Northland Foundation
Peter Kiewit Foundation
The Points of Light Institute
Presbyterian Committee for the Self-Development of People
The Raymond John Wean Foundation
The Roy A. Hunt Foundation
The Russell Family Foundation
Ruth Mott Foundation
The Seattle Foundation
Self Family Foundation
Sierra Health Foundation
The Skillman Foundation
Steans Family Foundation
The Sunflower Foundation
Winston-Salem Foundation
Zilber Family Foundation

Leadership Members:
Battle Creek Community Foundation
The Boston Foundation
The California Endowment
The Cleveland Foundation - Neighborhood Connections
The Denver Foundation - Strengthening Neighborhood s
NeighborWorks America

Sponsors:
Annie E. Casey Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
W. K. Kellogg Foundation

Friends:
Lee Draper
Argelia Flores
Tony Macklin
Gabriel Works

News

On the Ground – Syracuse

August 7-9, 2012 Thinking Big About the Power of Relationships Join us this summer in Syracuse for our next 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. This learning gathering will use The Gifford Foundation’s engaged grantmaking as a platform [...]

Building Capacity for Resident-Led Grantmaking

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 [...]

Strengthening Leadership at the Grassroots

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 [...]

On the Ground Denver in Photos

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 Share this:Share

Rachel’s Reflections

Rachel’s Reflections: The Gray Zone

The tricky thing about grassroots grantmaking is that it operates in the nebulous gray space of the funding world. Behind the foundation walls are dollars and cents that add up very neatly, accounts receivable records coming through humming fax machines, and proof of non-profit status reports in piles across cubicle desks. On the streets ofClevelandCity’s [...]

Rachel’s Reflections: The Final Report Party

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, [...]