How will you change the world?
GMA Foundations helps you define a clear path to transformative philanthropy, and then walks the path with you as an ally and a guide.
We partner with individual and organizational donors as managers, advisors, and facilitators. With over thirty years of insight and field experience, GMA Foundations is changing the world by helping you change the world.
SUCCESS STORIES
Collaboration between funders is a tricky business. Working together goes beyond passively making grants to the same organizations or programs. Foundations and their trustees must be able to find common threads in their missions, and sometimes to suspend the procedures of business as usual to make the joint efforts successful. The effort’s reward is in greater effectiveness and scale, not always in lower costs. Continue Reading »
GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Source: National Civics League
Everyone in Pittsfield, Springfield and twelve other cities is passionate about getting every child to grade-level reading by the third grade. The National Civic League recognizes their commitment with this year’s All-America Cities award. We’re following these cities’ efforts and thinking about how to replicate results.
The Jessie B. Cox Trust collaborated with the Davis Foundation, the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, the Kellogg Foundation and other funders in efforts to bolster the Springfield campaign. To read about the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading and the award announcement: http://www.allamericacityaward.com/
NPO CONVERSATION SERIES
Nonprofit collaboration starts with shared dreams and a lot of flexibility. Funders included.
Collaborating for greater impact begins with nonprofit leaders who develop wide-reaching social networks, communicate clearly about their mission and objectives, and are flexible about how those objectives are met. Funders are uniquely positioned to recognize these leaders and create greater impact together.
This age-old concept of collaboration, working together, is worth revisiting, particularly when social change seems to have stalled. And so, seven nonprofit leaders came to GMA Foundations recently to talk about collaboration at one of our series of lunchtime NPO Conversations.
We were excited and energized by their stories of strategic collaborations. No formulaic approaches here. Organic. Open. Personal. We want to run back to our clients – private foundations – and talk about how certain grantees might love working together, how certain organizations might see improved outcomes by linking their services. But we resist. How do we know if they’re right for each other? Continue Reading »
