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New grant-making kit now available
January 18, 1999
This article appeared previously in Canadian FundRaiser
Nonprofits engaged in making grants to other organizations can take advantage of a new tool to help them do it more effectively. Community Foundations of Canada has published a Grantmaking Tool Kit as the latest in its series of print resources to provide technical support to grantmaking institutions, primarily its community foundation members. Funded by the J. W. McConnell Family Foundation, the series also includes publications on fund development and marketing and communications. Work is under way on manuals on governance and administration.
"The materials are designed to complement the on-site technical assistance and consultancy services we offer our members," says Monica Patton, CEO of Community Foundations of Canada, "but they can stand alone as well, and would be useful to any grantmaking institution." The latest publication was developed using the same methodology CFC uses for all its publications - a steering committee of experienced community foundation people was created to establish the parameters of the project (these are the kinds of things we'd find useful, this is the scope we'd find valuable, this is the presentation style which would work best, etc.). This reference group then kept an ongoing watching brief over the project as it was actually written by outside consultants, one from London, Ontario, and one from Vancouver, both with roots in community foundation work.
In three-ring binder format, the manual is designed so that individual pages can be pulled and copied as needed. Its contents include four main chapters: Principles, Priorities, Policies; The Grantmaking Cycle; Great Grant Stories; and Samples. The chapter The Grantmaking Cycle is the core "how-to" section. It offers such helpful subtitles as: application procedures, application forms, funding guidelines, announcing a funding program, administrative/review procedures, grant assessment, grants review committee, grant monitoring and evaluation, dissemination and utilization, and publishing effective grants.
Copies of the manual were distributed to CFC members and to non-members who participated in workshops at its national gathering in Calgary this spring. Other grantmaking organizations can purchase the manual for $50 plus shipping and handling from Community Foundations of Canada, 75 Albert St., Ste. 301, Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7.
For further information: Monica Patton, Community Foundations of Canada, (613) 236-2664, fax (613) 236-1621, e-mail info@community-fdn.ca.
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