January 9, 2011
A Grant Maker Requires Grantees to Collaborate
Tim Fuller
“No one agency can meet any one person’s needs,” says Sarah Jones, head of a social-service charity.
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Tim Fuller
“No one agency can meet any one person’s needs,” says Sarah Jones, head of a social-service charity.
The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona has made a big change in its grant making in response to the recession. The fund now awards grants only to coalitions of groups that work together to solve important community problems, not individual organizations.
The foundation last year brought 200 local nonprofit groups together to discuss what significant community change would look like and how they could work together to achieve it. Out of that process, the fund received 29
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