Effective Planning

Project Streamline Grantmaker Assessment Tool

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Released: 12/2012

The Project Streamline Grantmaker Assessment Tool is an online survey that generates a comparative report about your grantmaking processes. This tool will enable you to compare your grantmaking processes to those of other funders, as well as to the principles described in the report, Drowning in Paperwork, Distracted from Purpose.

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Resource Type: Survey, Tools
Audience: All Members, Program Staff
Topic: Internal Communications, Endowment policies, Due Diligence, Effective Planning
Funding Area: Philanthropy, Volunteerism


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Released: 01/2015

Sanitation is one of the most critical issues that developing countries face. In this SSIR article, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation shares its findings and that in order to be effective, the work of philanthropy should not just be innovative but also cumulative.

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Resource Type: Best Practice
Audience: All Members
Topic: Due Diligence, Effective Planning, Issue Expertise, Aligning Resources
Funding Area: Health, Poverty, International/Foreign Affairs, Rural Concerns