Adopting Grantmaking Practices
By A. Scott DuPree and David Winder with Cristina Parnetti, Chandni Prasad and Shari Turitz | August 2000 | View Full Text | Email Link

Abstract

This is a chapter from the Foundation Building Sourcebook: A Practitioners Guide Based on Experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

There are a number of different grantmaking methods and types of grants. this chapter describes four particular practices used in selecting grantees/partners and providing grant support.

Examples
- A Request for Proposals (RFP): Vamos Foundation (Mexico)
- Foundation-Initiated Proposals: Puerto Rico Community Foundation
- Challenge Endowment Grants: Foundation for Higher Education (Colombia)
- Grants to Individuals: Child Relief and You (India)

Summary Points
- The method of selecting grantees/partners will be determined by the program objectives.
- Where the potential pool of grantee organizations to perform specific tasks or roles is small, the foundation may select them without a competitive process.
- Careful consideration needs to be given to the type, size and duration of grants.
- Where the foundation is developing the capacity of a sector, endowment grants to carefully selected organizations may prove to be an effective approach.

Funding for the Sourcebook was provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, with additional support from Aga Khan Foundation Canada, the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, Avina, Inc., the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute.

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