Best Practice Grantmaking

When you become a SmartyGrants user, you're signing up for much more than software. You join a community of grantmakers big and small across the country and across sectors that have one thing in common: a desire to make scarce resources go as far as possible in supporting communities and creating change.

The SmartyGrants team has been collecting, distilling and disseminating best practices in grantmaking for two decades. Our materials are used by auditors, grantmakers, journalists - all those with an interest in better quality grantmaking. You can pick our brains below.

Best Practice

Download the SmartyGrants Grantmaking Toolkit

Nine stages and 24 templates to guide grantmakers to success
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Plan and Design
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Record Keeping
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Identify Outcomes Agents
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10 Minute Check

Take the Grants Health Check

Be guided through the nine-stage self-assessment
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Assess and Decide
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Notify
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Agreements
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Social responsibility
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Make sure you're reaching all members of your community with this range of help sheets.
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Monitor
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Close the Grant
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Evaluate and Share
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Grants Management Intelligence
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