You're balancing grantmaking sustainability and community needs. How can you ensure both are met effectively?
To ensure both grantmaking sustainability and community needs are met, it's vital to strike a thoughtful balance. Consider these strategies:
- Assess long-term impacts: Evaluate how grants will benefit the community over time, not just in the immediate future.
- Encourage collaboration: Work with other organizations and stakeholders to pool resources and knowledge.
- Monitor and adjust: Regularly review grant effectiveness and be willing to make changes for greater efficiency.
How do you balance these two critical aspects in your grantmaking efforts? Share your strategies.
You're balancing grantmaking sustainability and community needs. How can you ensure both are met effectively?
To ensure both grantmaking sustainability and community needs are met, it's vital to strike a thoughtful balance. Consider these strategies:
- Assess long-term impacts: Evaluate how grants will benefit the community over time, not just in the immediate future.
- Encourage collaboration: Work with other organizations and stakeholders to pool resources and knowledge.
- Monitor and adjust: Regularly review grant effectiveness and be willing to make changes for greater efficiency.
How do you balance these two critical aspects in your grantmaking efforts? Share your strategies.
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Stay within your mission.. don't go for mission creep on grant seeking. Trust you are here for a purpose and you are making a difference.
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In my experience it has come down to partnering with the grantee community and communication with others in the grant making community.
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Involve your constituents/participants in evaluating the success of grant funded programs to be sure you are meeting important needs. Look for opportunities to fund already successful programs with funders willing to support expansion, variations on what is working including reaching a different segment of the participant population (different age, ethnicity, language, etc.) or serving a different geographic area.
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However limited financial resources are in the community, include an expectation that there is a grant "match". This usually illustrates a groups' willingness and seriousness of the project proposed.
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