Sample Collection: Job Descriptions
These sample variety of job descriptions offer guidance for funders seeking to incorporate trust-based values in their staff roles.
Sample Collection: Welcome Letters for New Grantee Partners
This collection of welcome letters from Thousand Currents and the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) demonstrate how funders can lead with trust and center relationships when embarking on new grantee partner relationships.
Sample Collection: Decision-Making Tools
Check out these trust-based decision-making tools designed to support the grantmaking decision process
Sample Collection: Support Beyond the Check
These examples demonstrate structured ways that funders can provide support beyond the check.
Sample Collection: Unrestricted Grant Agreements
These sample unrestricted grant agreements from the North Star Fund, the Dorot Foundation, and the General Services Foundation provide language that focus on reducing the burden on grantees through more streamlined processes.
Sample Collection: Grant Reporting
These samples provide insight on streamlining and simplifying the grant reporting process for grantee partners.
Durfee Foundation's Grant Application for New Organizations
This grant application from Durfee Foundation balances “doing the homework” with the particular considerations for funding new organizations.
Headwaters' Streamlined Go! Grants Application
Headwaters Foundation designed its GO! Grants to be quick turnaround, high-impact, low-stress mini grants. This application takes less than an hour, and enables grants to be turned around in less than a week.
Robert Sterling Clark's Approach to (and Tools for) Evaluation
For the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, evaluation is a key ingredient in being a good partner to grantees. RSCF uses three evaluation tools to assess their grantmaking impact while also providing opportunities for the Foundation to self-reflect.