Grantmaking

Grants Strategy

How to Future-Proof Your Foundation’s Grants Management System – Part 2

Uncover helpful tips on how to select the best Grants Management System (GMS) for your organization.

Digital Marketing

How To Future Proof Your Foundation’s Grants Management System – Part 1

Five concrete steps any foundation can take today to future proof their grants management.

Grants Strategy

Strategic Grantmaking to Improve Community Health

Learn how hospitals can use grantmaking as a powerful tool to improve community health.

The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 156: Getting Started with Outcomes Measurement for Foundations

Learn how foundations can improve outcomes measurement for grantmaking processes.

The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 154: How Responsive Philanthropy Can Advance Racial Equity

Marcus Walton, president and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, talks about how philanthropy can advance racial equity.

Grants Strategy

2020: The Year that Changed Grantmaking

Learn how traditional funding practices are being replaced by ones that encourage more partnership.

The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 145: Trends in Grantmaking During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lauren Steiner of Grants Plus talks about the current funding landscape.

Change Management

Community Foundations, Donor Advised Funds, and Cloud-based Technology – An Insider’s Look At This Winning Trifecta

Community foundations that have not yet gone through a digital transformation are late to the game. Read about three key ways drive your mission forward.

Outcomes Measurement

The Power of Focus: Using OKRs to Turbocharge Your Foundation’s Effectiveness

Foundations can use the OKR process to align every department’s effort (grantmaking, fundraising, financial management, etc.) on objectives and outcomes that quantitatively focus on maximizing impact.

Disaster Response

Finding the Right Nonprofit Partner Before Disaster Strikes

Antoinette LeCouteur, Founder of Waters Edge Corporate Social Responsibility Consulting Firm, offers her expertise on disaster resilience, preparedness, and responsiveness.

Data Health

5 Ways Good Technology and Data Improve Our Community Foundation’s Morale

The efficiencies gained by technology can make a significant impact in the funds that nonprofits and community foundations deliver to improve social good.

Grants Strategy

Grant Seeking 101: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding and Winning Grants

Learn the keys to finding, applying for and managing grants that will help your nonprofit or social good organization get a piece of the grantmaking pie!

The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 103: Ramping Up for High-Impact Philanthropy

Cynthia Schaal, Chief Program Officer at Exponent Philanthropy, takes you step by step and helps your organization understand the obstacles you might face after taking a fresh look at your goals, strategies, and outcomes, and helps you determine what you can do differently to achieve a greater impact with your grants.

Outcomes Measurement

4 Steps to Implementing Your Social Change Strategy: A Case Study with SEFCU

What would achieving your organization’s mission look like? This case study shares how to become a results-focused funder and be able to measure the real impact you're having.