Northamptonshire Community Foundation

Grant making strategy 2010-2013

Introduction and refresher

• Good practice to review grant making approach every 3-5 years (ACF)

• 2007: first formal internal review of grant making and developed a 2 year strategy to standardise grant making

• 6 month and annual review

• In next 3 years build on good work with an outward looking approach

Your input

• Welcome from the Foundation Trustees: introduction from you about this strategy

• All Trustees have opportunity for imput

• Ownership of the grant making work

• Trustees of grant sub committee: Creative brainstorming, ideas, amendments and additions….

Developing new grant making strategy 2010-2013

Social Impact - Big impact – local level - promoting it

• Annual Awards ceremony• Research briefs: across area and

themes in new style fund report• Sense of belonging: ’nurture’ a sense

of belonging by embedding ourselves in the lives of Northamptonshire communities

• Measuring the impact: 10 year service review

• Community Development

Good Practice – smart admin – effective panels –

research new trends

• Research best practice: ACF and network

• Standardised reports to all Donors• Online applications: go ‘live’ July• Young philanthropy• Grants Advisors• Web resources• Donor-led grant making

Flexible services – donor care – group support

• Development of donor guide to grant services: resource guide for potential and actual donors

• Workshops, training and one to one support: programme of community development support for groups to build fundraising and evaluation skills

Creativity – modern – smart – keeping ‘the edge’

• Creative use of ICT and digital media• Developing new products for market

trends: placing self as centre for philanthropy

• Team building and office environment• Keeping an ‘edge’ – THE Grant

making and Donor care experts for Northamptonshire

Community leadership – insight – influence - change• Roll-out findings of recession action

survey• Strategic representation: exploring

where we need to have a presence• Vital signs: Based on Canadian

Community Foundation model of community wellbeing indicators

Future legacy – Foundation footprint

• Assets – a future legacy/Community resource centre/Community hubs: supporting the development of community groups

• Communities and the impact of the growth agenda: funding programme development

• Media centres: supporting development of facilities e.g. community cinema