It is a truism of philanthropy that it is easy to give away money...but difficult to give it away effectively.

Impact Strategies can help your foundation achieve greater effectiveness by developing a comprehensive grantmaking strategy that creates impact and that honors donor intent.

Impact Strategies utilizes frameworks and tools developed from an extensive reivew of the literature on foundation effectiveness, stratgic planning, and evaluation.  These tools are used to support a facilitative process that centers on three primary tasks:

• Clarification of clear grant-making goals and supporting strategy
   
  
• Development of a plan to align human and financial resources to support the strategy

• Development of a foundation-focused evaluation plan that considers grantee and foundation performance