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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Residents at the Center: The Power of Grassroots Grantmaking The Foundation Center in Cleveland featured grassroots grantmaking in a special forum that was held April 14, 2011 with 70 people in attendance and others across the country watching the forum remotely. The forum kicked off with a presentation by Janis Foster Richardson, Grassroots Grantmakers’ Executive [...]
From Family Giving to a Focus on Place Gordon Wean on the Evolution of the Raymond John Wean Foundation The story that Gordon Wean, Chairman of the Raymond John Wean Foundation, shared at Grassroots Grantmakers’ 2009 On the Ground in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley was so inspiring that we decided that it needed to be shared [...]
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, [...]
