Grant Catalog

We are working to provide the tools and support necessary to build high-impact organizations – organizations that have the strategy, infrastructure, and practices to achieve maximum impact in the community for the long term.

All the Service Grants in our catalog are critical to becoming a high-impact organization - they build on one another and work hand-in-hand to increase your capacity to achieve your mission. While the services are outlined in our catalog as individual projects, we believe in long-term development of infrastructure – we look forward to partnering with you on multiple Service Grants to increase the impact of your organization.

Become a High-Impact Organization
We offer service grants in the following areas. What does your organization need most?

Our Service Grant Areas
  
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Marketing
Typical Organization:
  • You can’t explain what you do in two sentences.
  • Materials don’t reflect your quality of work, the culture of the organization, and your impact in the community.
  • Staff, board members, and volunteers spread inconsistent messages.
  • You’re constantly answering the same questions for clients and funders because you don’t have effective written materials.

Become a High-Impact Organization:
  • Establish concise messages that resonate with clients and funders, driving them to action.
  • Build a brand associated with “success", creating ongoing momentum that’s easy to maintain and yields increased support.
  • Create materials that accurately depict the organization and engage the target audience.
  • Train staff, board, and volunteers to spread consistent, strong messages that build visibility and presence in your community.
  • Save time by using standard materials to provide basic information to clients and funders.

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Marketing
Typical Organization:
  • You can’t explain what you do in two sentences.
  • Materials don’t reflect your quality of work, the culture of the organization, and your impact in the community.
  • Staff, board members, and volunteers spread inconsistent messages.
  • You’re constantly answering the same questions for clients and funders because you don’t have effective written materials.

Become a High-Impact Organization:
  • Establish concise messages that resonate with clients and funders, driving them to action.
  • Build a brand associated with “success", creating ongoing momentum that’s easy to maintain and yields increased support.
  • Create materials that accurately depict the organization and engage the target audience.
  • Train staff, board, and volunteers to spread consistent, strong messages that build visibility and presence in your community.
  • Save time by using standard materials to provide basic information to clients and funders.

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Information Technology
Typical Organization:
  • Donor records are maintained in various places.
  • Registration and data is entered and tracked manually.
  • Data isn’t backed up or protected.
  • You can’t receive donations through your website.

Become a High-Impact Organization:
  • Increase donations by making donating top-of-mind and actionable through your website.
  • Track donor leads and relationships efficiently, with automated reporting.
  • Decrease anxiety around disorganization and loss of donor data.
  • Reach more potential clients, funders, and volunteers through an engaging website.

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Strategy Management
Typical Organization:
  • Makes decisions based on hunches and anecdotes rather than data
  • Struggles to make stakeholders feel invested into their organization's strategic planning process
  • Finds communicating strategic progress to the board and other stakeholders a continual challenge
  • Lacks the information needed to make decisions about competitive threats or potential collaborators
  • Does not fully understand the costs associated with organizational growth, program expansion or revenue generation

Become a High-Impact Organization:
  • Make disciplined, data-driven decisions by understanding your organization's operating environment and its unique opportunities, and threats
  • Involve important stakeholders in your strategic planning process early for better alignment later
  • Communicate strategic execution to your board and other key stakeholders using clear, concise performance metrics
  • Get the information you need to mitigate competitive threats and capitalize on collaborative opportunities
  • Know the true costs of your initiatives so you can make informed decisions

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Leadership Development and Strategic HR
American Express

Presented by American Express
Typical Organization:
  • You don’t have the resources to acquire and retain top talent.
  • You are regularly hiring for a position you needed filled two months ago.
  • Tenure system or volunteer dynamics force you to retain low performers.
  • Culture of “good-ness" prevents addressing performance issues.
  • Staff don’t understand how their role fits into the organization’s goals.

Become a High-Impact Organization:
  • Hire sustainable roles, rather than urgently plugging holes.
  • Leverage the passion of employees and their connection to the mission.
  • Integrate HR goals into strategic objectives.
  • Have a prioritized list and plan for HR investments.
  • Increase employee productivity by aligning individual goals with organizational objectives.
  • Retain employees through effective management practices.

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Facilities Design
Typical Organization:
  • Cost constraints required you to move into a lackluster office space that is uncomfortable and uninspiring for staff and visitors.
  • Potential funders are hesitant to support your capital campaign without a clear understanding and vision of your facility needs.
  • You recently outgrew your office space or will need more space soon.
  • Your office space doesn’t comply with accessibility and health standards.
  • First impressions when visiting your office are inconsistent with your culture and mission.

Become a High-Impact Organization:
  • Renovate your existing office space to align your environment with your ongoing activities, program needs, and service offerings.
  • Create capital campaign materials for your new facility, including a rendering, cost estimate, and list of features that compels funders to support your project.
  • Select an office location and space that reflects your values, program and staffing needs, budget, and growth plan.
  • Design your office space to have optimal conditions for accessibility, productivity, and comfort.
  • Convey your mission through your office space, so that all visitors have positive first and lasting impressions of your organization.

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