Improving the Odds of Postsecondary Success
Seven nonprofit leaders' different approaches to postsecondary success: early exposure to college, responses to student poverty, and new ways of framing the experience read more
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Case Studies
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
Study of Americans’ Attitudes on Health Care Uncovers Deep Concerns
The Physicians Foundation's 2019 Survey of America’s Patients, reveals the biggest hurdles facing Americans today in our country’s expensive and hard to navigate health care system. 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.
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GMA funder community’s
trauma and resilience fund