Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking
In early 2022, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy began an organization-wide grants change management review. The goal was to become [...]
How to Minimize Risk Throughout Your Grant Cycle
There are millions of wonderful nonprofit organizations working to make this world a better place. And as a grantmaker, you’ve [...]
Blackbaud Grantmaking: Examining the Past, the Present, and the Future
If you are a grantmaker, you know how important it is to have a reliable and efficient software system that [...]
What Are You Really Asking? A Checklist for Grantmakers
As a grantmaker, questions are your tools. They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with [...]
Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action
The very nature of philanthropy is based on empathy, compassion, and a strong conviction to improve overall human welfare and [...]
10 Tips for Mastering Your Grantmaking Dashboards
The dashboard on your car gives you real-time information that helps you make better decisions about your driving. Are you [...]
Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees
Back in the mid-2010s, I served as chair of the selection committee for the Washington, DC region’s biggest award recognizing [...]
Need a New Grant Management System? 5 Tips for Selecting the Best GMS for Your Foundation
Changing a core piece of software at your grantmaking organization is no picnic. But inertia is not an option when [...]
Data as Decision in Grantmaking
In grantmaking, one word makes more eyes glaze over than any other – data. Those who find it fun are [...]
Grantmakers’ Questions as a Way Toward Change
Knowledge work in philanthropy is a big umbrella, expanding exponentially over the last decade to cover more of what grants [...]
