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Grantmaking Support & Implementation

Promoting success across the full grantmaking cycle. Download the Fact Sheet >>

“We have been provided with valuable insights on how to update our grant-making strategy, streamline processes, and become more efficient changemakers. Their long experience, personal touch, and competence were highly appreciated by our team.” – Fernanda Drumond, Strategy Lead for Inclusive Societies, H&M Foundation

Diverse Support for Diverse Needs

Do you feel stuck on where to give or how to achieve your ambitious impact goals? We can work alongside you to build your grantmaking processes, define your objectives, and create a roadmap to get there.

We have expertise managing a wide variety of grants and specialize in building fit-for-purpose grantmaking.

We offer complete grantmaking services, ranging from selecting grantees to developing grantmaking systems and monitoring grantee progress. Working with families, individuals, foundations, and donor collaboratives, we can start at the beginning to help a donor clarify the purpose of their giving, step in as a partner midway to create a grantee selection process, or join near the end to manage and evaluate closed grants and communicate their final impact.

Some of the ways we work with clients include:

Grantee selection and grants processing. From developing requests for proposals, to vetting, to reviewing reporting, we can work with your team through all aspects of the grant making cycle to meet your giving priorities.
Design, implementation, and evaluation of grantmaking systems and structures. We can help you choose a right-sized system to achieve your grant making goals, work with you to implement that system, and, if needed, stick with you to monitor and evaluate your objectives or grantees.
Grantmaking strategies. We can help you define your giving goals, theory of change, and develop and implement a plan to get there.
Staffing support. We can act as your staff, conducting grantee due diligence, managing and monitoring grants, supporting grantees to achieve success, and communicating impact back to you or an advisory board.

Case Study

Supporting the launch and growth of a new international fund

Even in a data rich world, finding donors to join your cause is often difficult. As one foundation learned, this can be especially true for more distant geographies and newer initiatives.

Aligning initiatives with strategic planning

Determining where and how to best invest in development or philanthropic funding can be difficult. What is already being done by other actors? What are a country’s greatest needs? How do these needs align with your giving priority?

Launching an ambitious pooled fund

It’s easy to understand how bringing together donors and grassroots change agents can increase the ability to tackle complex challenges. Making it happen can be daunting.

Establishing a framework for philanthropic expansion

Scaling up a multi-generational philanthropy strategy can have the same growing pains as any endeavor. Is everyone on board? What direction do you go? And what are the side effects of expansion?

Grantmaking Support & Implementation

Diverse Support for Diverse Needs

Case Study

Supporting the launch and growth of a new international fund

Aligning initiatives with strategic planning

Launching an ambitious pooled fund

Establishing a framework for philanthropic expansion

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