This learning circle is focused on exploring the intersection between grassroots grantmaking and aging – learning more about how to advance work that brings older people in from the margins in community and opens up new pathways for older adults to contribute their passion, energy and skills, as well as how to connect the resident-centered [...]
We are delighted to be working with the Points of Light Institute, providing technical assistance and coaching to the Points of Light Affiliate organizations selected to offer small grants in their local communities.
Embedded Funders Group, a learning circle of nine foundations who shared the common experience of “funding in their own backyard”, recently wrapped up their work together after four years of learning circle activities. Launched several years ago by the University of Chicago’s Chapin Hall Center for Research on Children with support from the Annie E. [...]
This learning circle includes key staff with local organizations that are organized to support local grassroots groups and leaders with technical assistance, training, convening, coaching, and access to information. Group members include: Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods (Winston-Salem) Neighborhood Resource Center of Colorado Nonprofit Assistance Center (Seattle) PRO Neighborhoods [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
