Report Discusses How to Help Grantees After the Grant Period Is Over

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The Effective Exit: Managing the End of a Funding Relationship, by Anne Mackinnon and Jan Jaffe, helps grant makers decide when and how to stop supporting a charity’s programs. For example, a grant-making relationship might end because the work is finished, the foundation is shifting its focus, or the charity is no longer successful. This report, which gathers advice from a number of foundations and consultants, discusses how to communicate with grant recipients and how to help former grantees strengthen their organizations. Foundations, the report says, can help ease the stress that comes with the end of a grant-making relationship by offering transition grants, helping the grantee find new sources of support, and planning well in advance for the cutoff of support. The report includes advice from foundations that are trying to spend all their money in a specific number of years and shut down, a checklist of the characteristics of a healthy nonprofit group, and four case studies about ending grants.

Publisher: GrantCraft, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10017; (212) 573-4879; http://www.grantcraft.org; 29 pages; available free for download on the organization’s Web site.