Private Foundation
Private Foundation
Investing in Capacity Building: A Guide to High-Impact Approaches Improving management practicesthe most challenging aspect of capacity buildingis essential to increasing the impact of a nonprofit's limited resources. Author Barbara Blumenthal helps grantmakers and consultants design better methods of helping nonprofits, while showing nonprofit managers how to get more effective support.
Read More...Author Paul Firstenberg challenges grantmakers to proactively assist their grantee's management in maximizing the nonprofit's social impact, showing grantseekers how potential funders increasingly emphasize organizational capacity building.
Read More...Authors Barbara Kibbe and Fred Setterberg explain how the appropriate use of consultants can generate exciting methods of forwarding your organization's goals.
Read More...John Nason, drawing on years of experience as a trustee, guides foundation officials and their boards through difficulties and provides insights into critical areas of concern.
The Foundation Center, March 1989, 173 pp.
Available online from The Foundation Center.
Read More...2008, 13 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, 212-620-4230, www.foundationcenter.org
http://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/research/
pdf/fgge09.pdf
2008, 56 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, 212-620-4230, www.foundationcenter.org
Part of the “Foundations Today” series, this report focuses on foundation growth and giving by private and community foundations. Findings presented here are based on aggregate fiscal data collected by the Foundation Center on all active U.S. foundations.
I have always revered the work of David McCullough and recently I read remarks he made last spring that focused his audience on arts education:
2007, 29 pages. Grantcraft, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY, 10017, 212-573-4879, www.grantcraft.org
http://www.grantcraft.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=840
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