In-School Partnerships Increase Student Opportunity
In-school partnerships with community-based nonprofit organizations can bridge the great disparities in opportunity that exist among a region’s students. read more
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Case Studies
A Grantmaker’s Impact Assessment: Yes, and…
Our client had evidence that their grants had led to major policy changes and benefits for communities, but they wanted to know more - to learn and adjust.
Nonprofit-Funder Relationships, Confident Grantmaking
Recently we witnessed a grant application from a small charter elementary school in an economically struggling port city spark a private foundation board’s enthusiasm in an unusual way.
A Family’s Donor-Advised Fund Finds Strategic Focus
A field-building approach helped the Rudolph Family Fund achieve greater strategic clarity and increased impact.
Advisory board guides collaborative conservation grants
A regional environment funder conducts research and consults with an advisory board to help conserve more land at a faster rate.
News
Improving the Odds of Post-Secondary Success
GMA invites leaders of Boston-area nonprofit organizations that work to improve the odds of post-secondary success for a lunchtime NPO Conversation read more
Resources
Ready to Add Non-Family Board Members?
Before acting to diversify your family foundation board, assess your readiness to add non-family members. read more
Right-sized Evaluation for Small Foundations
GMA's preferred approach to evaluation can be framed as monitoring, assessment, and learning — processes embedded in small foundations’ grantmaking. read more
Chronic poverty changes a child’s brain;
adverse effects can last into adulthood.
Learn about
GMA funder community’s
trauma and resilience fund