posted on: Tuesday, March 27, 2007

In NCRP's recent report A Call to Action: Organizing to Increase the Effectiveness and Impact of Foundation Grantmaking, nonprofits provide commentary about how project-specific grants limit how much they can alter a project or create a new project when there are changing needs in the communities or constituents they serve. Some of these groups felt that foundations were less in touch with the constituents and so should not be deciding the direction of the nonprofit.

Do you think that current grantmaking policies help or hurt nonprofits in fulfilling their missions? Does it help for foundations to provide guidance for nonprofits through project-specific funding or limit how much nonprofits can actually do?

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