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CAP - GS839 Assignment 6 (Styles ofPhilanthropic Grantmaking)
Strategic Philanthropy - correct answer ✔✔Reflects the attitudes, philosophy and aptitudes of donors
who come from business
3 Success Patterns - correct answer ✔✔- Focus (Fewer things - bigger and longer)
- Donor is involved (time and influence)
- Execution is at least as important as strategy
Good Overhead - correct answer ✔✔The capacity the organization needs to succeed; infrastructure
(technology, staff, leadership)
"Cost of Capital" - correct answer ✔✔Pulling on the limited resources of the nonprofit (like time)
Examples:
- Demanding reports that are never read
"Satisfactory Underperformance" - correct answer ✔✔AKA: Feel-good Philanthropy
- Nonprofits and funders feel good about the work they're doing but they're not achieving any results
Peanut Butter Philanthropy - correct answer ✔✔- Giving to so many causes and nonprofits that nothing
in particular is accomplished
- Getting beyond this requires clarifying our values, beliefs and style
AKA: "Reflexive Giving," "Checkbook Giving," "Reactive Giving"
, Requirements for Successful Grantmaking - correct answer ✔✔1. Getting Real = how can success be
achieved?
2. Getting Personal = what am I accountable for?
3. Getting Clear = what is success?
Starvation Cycle - correct answer ✔✔- Costs are fare greater than grant-seekers admit
- Much of the cost is "overhead" so to appear lean, nonprofits cut costs until the organization starves
- Results suffer and funding falls
Grassroots Giving - correct answer ✔✔- Engage in Grantmaking by walking around
- Ask neighbors which people are doing good work
- See it with your won eyes; you don't need an intermediary with a spreadsheet
Catalytic Philanthropy - correct answer ✔✔an approach practiced by innovative funders to create
transformative change beyond a check; they leverage their voice, community relationships, and non-
grantmaking skills such as convening and capacity building to drive social change
Adaptive or Emergent Philanthropy - correct answer ✔✔"More a compass than a map"
- The strategy changes - there's no turn-by-turn directions
Types of Problems - correct answer ✔✔Simple = we know how; we just have to fund it and do it
Complicated = it's not easy, but the problems can have nuanced solutions, if properly managed
Complex = there are multiple and interacting factors at play that make linear predictions impossible
Wicket = super complex problems we may never solve
Community-Centric Fundraising - correct answer ✔✔- A model grounded in equity and social justice
- We prioritize the entire community over individual organizations
- Encourage mutual support between nonprofits
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