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Cleveland Foundation Center Features Grassroots Grantmaking


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Sharing the Learning: From Family Giving to a Focus on Place


Reports & Publications
Alliance Special Issue Features Small Grants


Navigating the Power Dynamics Between Institutions and Their Communities


An Individual and Community Asset-Building Assessment of the Mahoning Valley


Untapped: How Community Organizers Can Develop and Deepen Relationships with Major Donors and Raise Big Money


GrantCraft's Guide: Communicating for Impact


GrantCraft's Guide to Funding Community Organizing


Where is Democracy Headed?


A Legacy of Leadership and Support for Grassroots Grantmaking (Executive Summary)


Sharing the Learning: Resident-led Grassroots Grants Program


The Case for Stakeholder Engagement


Sharing the Learning: Fighting Foreclosure - What You Can Do in Your Neighborhood


Sharing the Learning: The Living Room Meeting


Building Resident Power & Capacity for Change


The Promise and Challenge of Neighborhood Democracy: Lessons from the Intersection of Government and Community


From the Field
Paula Ellis on Knight Technology for Engagement Initiative


Calgary Jane's Walk 2010


Anne-Marie Taylor on the Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center's IMAGINE Grants Program


Melissa Johnson Selected as Neighborhood Funders Group Executive Director


Iowa West Foundation Announces New Collaboration to Bring Small Grants to Council Bluffs Neighborhoods


Sandy Heierbacher on Core Principles for Public Engagement


Helen L'Annunziata on Better Together in California's Humboldt County


The Denver Foundation's Strengthening Neighborhoods Program Makes the News


Tom David on the Community Clinics Initiative


Cheryl King Fischer on the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund


John McKnight: Principles for Inclusion


Drew O'Connor on Building Community Resilience


Sharnita Johnson on Value-Added from Grassroots Grantmaking


Richard Rodrigues on Hawaii People's Fund


Donna Newton on Building Stronger Neighborhoods in Greensboro


Fay Harris on Being Involved in Her Neighborhood


Margeret Mwale on Presbyterian Committee for the Self-Development of People


Kirk Noden on Working in Youngstown


Baltimore Community Foundation's William Donald Schaefer's Civic Fund


Doug Woodard on Re-Imagining Non-Profits


Sarah McCarthy On Confidence as Capacity


Cleveland's Neighborhood Connections Gets Moving on the Foreclosure Crisis


Op-Ed: A New Possibility for Our Communities


Peter Block: Code for "We're Just Not That Into You"


Julie Black on the Power of Neighbourliness


Lisa Leverette on the Power of Small Grants


Kathy Szenda Wilson on Creating Space for Resident Voice


Betty Alonso on The Power of Grassroots Grantmaking


Tom O'Brien on Radical Hospitality


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