This report, Practices That Matter, explores streamlining trends, successes, barriers, and perceptions. Most importantly, it prescribes the way forward for grantmakers that want to match their practices to their values in supporting nonprofit missions. When it comes to streamlining, how do you line up? These practices characterize a streamlined grantmaker— one with a grantmaking philosophy and practices designed to ensure that it gets the information it needs for decision-making without unduly burdening grant-seeking nonprofits.