Emerging Trends in Grant Makers Use of Internet

Interactive Applications Group (iapps) has announced the release of Foundations for Success: Emerging Trends in Grantmakers’ Use of the Internet. (Free 56 page booklet available in PDF) Drawing on the firm’s ten years of experience working with some of the nation’s most forward-thinking foundations, the guide focuses on four major trends:

• Transparency — Using the Internet to heighten awareness of a foundation’s purpose and programs, priorities, recent grants and funding criteria, as well as the outcomes of its grantmaking.

• Network Building — Creating an online workspace in which funders, grantees and other foundation stakeholders collaborate and share timely information to maximize their effectiveness.

• Knowledge Management — Implementing Web-based systems to capture, synthesize, manage and disseminate knowledge gleaned from funders and grantees.

• e-Grantmaking — Building Web-based systems to streamline the grants management life cycle, from eligibility screening and online application submission to proposal review and grantee reporting.

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