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This new tool grew out of conversations, interviews, and workshops GrantCraft held with grantmakers about what it takes to be effective on the job. The cards, and the activities we’ve included, encourage you to reflect more deeply on how to meet and manage expectations: your own, your foundation’s, and your grantees’.

 See which roles the 2000+ respondents to our recent survey identified as crucial for grantmakers to take up.
 

 
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GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS
Investing in People and Their Communities
What do grants to individuals accomplish? In this guide, grantmakers describe the elements of a well-crafted program and explain why scholarships, prizes, and other grants to individuals can have a profound influence on organizations, fields, or communities.

 

 

  

 

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THE EFFECTIVE EXIT
The end of a funding relationship is often tense and sometimes even treated as an afterthought. But an effective exit can add value to a project and leave a grantee in a strong position. Read this guide to learn how grantmakers wrestle with exiting dilemmas, plan for the inevitable end, and pave a good path forward.

 

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GRANT MAKING WITH A RACIAL EQUITY LENS
Can a racial equity lens help you approach your work with greater clarity and impact? Read this guide to see why, for increasing numbers of grantmakers, the answer is yes. Learn how to apply this lens in understanding your field or community, working with grantees, and promoting change within your foundation.

 

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Grantmakers describe how they tackle practical  challenges common to the field in GrantCraft’s collection of case studies.


 
R E C E N T   S U R V E Y   R E S U L T S :
    Key Roles for Effective Grantmaking

    Helping Grantees Find New Funding

 

 

 
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Learn more from our guide
PERSONAL STRATEGY:
Mobilizing Your Self for
Effective Grant Making

 

 

 
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GRANTMAKERS ON THEIR ROLE

 
W H A T   W E ' R E   R E A D I N G  . . .
 
Two online resources to support grantmaking

 

The Project on Civic Reflection and the National Network of Consultants help grantmakers reach beyond usual methods and networks to increase their effectiveness.