grantmakers

Launched ten years ago by the Ford Foundation, GrantCraft will expand to help meet the needs of professional grantmakers worldwide and enable them to keep pace with the demands of philanthropy's changing landscape....

The grants were awarded as part of the Count Me In initiative, an effort funded by ten grantmakers to increase the mail-back rate of census forms in thirty-seven Illinois counties that are hard to count....

Following the collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s, local grantmakers worked to promote education reform, job creation in the healthcare and higher education sectors, and investments in green technology....

David Grant, who has led the New Jersey-based foundation for the past twelve years and served on the board of the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers for six years, will return to Vermont with his wife to pursue interests in education and social issues...

Although Lilly is still one of the largest grantmakers in the country, the endowment's assets fell to $5.7 billion last year — down from $7.7 billion the year before, and from $15.6 billion in 2000....

The report from the Donors Forum of Wisconsin found that nearly 90 percent of grantmakers in the state reported that the value of their assets dropped in the past twelve months, while more than half predicted a decrease in grantmaking in 2009....

With grantmakers putting a hold on new programs and cutting back on their expenses, many grantees in the Philadelphia region are struggling to make ends meet and a number may have to shut their doors if new sources of revenue do not emerge....