s FUNDER COLLABORATIVES
Why and How Funders Work Together
After years of hearing that more collaboration would be a good thing, grantmakers seem ready to find new ways to work together. Contributors to this guide share approaches that have worked for them, as well as the challenges: from setting grounds rules to sharing control. They also ask, can philanthropy afford not to collaborate anymore? 

  
new  What do grantees think about funder collaboratives?
We put this question to our readers and received 1200+ responses, many from grantees themselves. This survey report summarizes what they had to say into five big lessons for making funder collaboratives work well from the grantee's perspective.
 
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s Learning Together
Collaborative Inquiry among Grantmakers and Grantees
Many grantmakers champion the idea of using evaluation to improve grantee effectiveness or advance a field of practice. This guide explores an increasingly popular method called "collaborative inquiry."
 
 
  
Communicating for Impact s Communicating for Impact
Strategies for Grantmakers
If you think communications is the exclusive domain of big foundations, communications staff, or consultants, think again. In this guide, grantmakers explain how they use communications to advance programmatic goals. Get tips on developing strategy, managing relationships, using new media.
 
 
  

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Funding Community Organizing
Social Change through Civic Participation
In this guide, funders and organizers discuss what makes community organizing unique and uniquely effective, how to manage grantee relationships over time, understanding the value of process, and the grantmaker’s special role in fostering change.

 
 
W H A T   W E´R E   R E A D I N G  . . .
 
  s This edition of What We’re Reading explores the many options for sticking to one’s vision, whether funding with a racial equity lens, identifying your ideal grantmaking legacy, or finding novel ways to act against injustice
    
 

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Managing a Funders' Collaborative

From GrantCraft's Reflection on Practice
Video Series

This video looks at how a long-term commitment to sustainable, collaborative efforts can be a powerful lever for change. Grant makers discuss scaling up successful work, sharing roles and responsibilities within the collaborative, and using effective communications to open new doors.