If you are not making grants to individuals because you do not know how or are afraid of what it might entail, you are missing a key component of your strategy.
Making grants to individuals is a critical part of how we change outcomes for vulnerable and marginalized communities.
Today’s Fast Build Friday episode is about making grants to individuals. In it, I share my 2 key considerations for building sustainable individual grant programs all over the world.
Are you making grants to individuals? What considerations do you suggest we keep in mind?
You can follow the link to watch Episode 11.
We have been receiving a lot of questions about how to structure funding awards to groups and organizations that are not formal charities. Funders want to support change, but have not made these types of grants before or have made them, but getting the funding out was a slow, complicated process.
We are in a moment when neither reality works.
Today’s Fast Build Friday episode is about making grants to organizations that are not U.S. public charities.
Nic offers 3 key recommendations that will help funders and these organizations sustain a movement, ideas, and change.
We will also provide a link to a previous FBF episode about effectively working with intermediary organizations, which may be another way to fund these organizations, here.
What are you seeing that we should know about? Let us know in the comments!
Follow the link to watch Episode 10.
Our clients that are intermediaries are playing brave and crucial roles in so many countries around the world. They provide critical funding and support to grassroots organizations, leaders, and communities in need. We are amazed by the work they do to ensure that marginalized voices are heard.
Today’s Fast Build Friday topic is how to effectively work with intermediaries. In it, Nic shares two key criteria that she has seen show up in every intermediary relationship when things go right and when they do not….
You can follow the link to watch Episode 8.
Have you thought about how to start making grants internationally? And how to do it well?
Today’s Fast Build Friday topic is getting your infrastructure set up to make grants internationally.
Nic draws on her experience in international grant making to share a fundamental building block you need to get started….
A funding ecosystem. Few are deliberately designed, but all should be.
After all, our goal is to move funding seamlessly to communities around the globe who need it most. And you cannot move funding like that without Brave Infrastructure Design®.
What does your funding ecosystem look like?
You can follow the link to watch Episode 7.
Nic recently had a fascinating conversation with a nonprofit President & CEO about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
They talked, in part, about indicators showing when nonprofits and philanthropies are serious and intentional about DEI. And it got us to thinking….
Those lingering thoughts inspired today’s Fast Build Friday — why building an infrastructure that meaningfully incorporates DEI is so critical to the communities we serve.
Follow the link to watch Episode 6.
How are you feeling?
Like so many of you, we oscillate between a state of speechlessness and being compelled to say something about this dark place and time in which we sit.
And because Black lives matter too, we are choosing to say something.
Today’s Fast Build Friday episode is about the role of systemic racism in infrastructure…because the sector is not immune to systemic racism.
In fact, we build and structure on top of it.
So, Nic suggests 4 practical ways the sector can start to dismantle this system and build infrastructure to better respond to the needs of marginalized and communities around the globe.
And we need to start immediately.
You can click the link to watch Episode 9.
Episode 5 of Fast Build Friday is about defining the word “infrastructure”.
So many definitions are floating around so Nic is here to level set. And once we have defined infrastructure, we need to build it stronger…faster because communities are counting on us.
Follow the link to watch Episode 5.
Do you want to know what strengthens fundraising and development efforts? Knowing your organization’s infrastructure. Why should you think about building infrastructure when you are fundraising or engaged in development? We have seen organizations with a firm grasp on their organizational infrastructure needs fare considerably better than organizations that are unaware. In this Fast Build…
In our third “Fast Build Friday” episode, Nic addressed the four guiding principles for creating a rapid response grant process.
Nic has learned these four principles from years of designing grant processes to move funding quickly throughout different parts of the globe (and 6 continents) and she gladly shares her expertise in this episode.
Follow the link to watch Episode 3.
We know many funders are converting project support grants to general support grants as a result of the pandemic. In the second episode of “Fast Build Friday,” Nic discussed the top 5 things to know before converting project support grants to general support grants. Nic has worked on these conversions over the years and these are the biggest things to watch out for!
Follow the link to watch Episode 2.