The Grantmaking School courses go well beyond a workshop approach to employ curriculum design that is highly rated by grantmakers from more than 200 U.S. foundations. Our instructors are among the most experienced grantmakers in the nation with diverse experience across both foundation type and size. The Grantmaking School currently offers four courses for foundation professionals: Advanced Grant Proposal Analysis, Advanced Grant Portfolio Management, Evaluation for Grantmakers, and Grant Financial Analysis.

Advanced Proposal Analysis

Advanced Grant Portfolio Management

Evaluation for Grantmakers

Grant Financial Analysis

Advanced Proposal Analysis: A Critical Examination of Complex Issues

Advanced Proposal Analysis focuses on the essential skills of proposal review, recommendations, project management, and other core competency areas of grantmaking. 

Advanced Grant Portfolio Management: A Framework for Strategic Grantmaking

Advanced Grant Portfolio Management is an intensive learning experience designed to help individual grantmakers and their foundations develop or refine a strategic lens to grantmaking and leverage improved program results and deeper foundation impact.

Customized Grantmaker Education

Customized Grantmaker Education responds to the needs of individual foundations that seek to create a specific culture of grantmaker practice with appropriate knowledge and skills to meet their individual strategies and goals. We select components of our state-of-the-art grantmaker education curricula, foundation-specific information, and the expertise of our highly experienced instructors to create a powerful and relevant professional development program that is second to none.

Evaluation for Grantmakers 

Evaluation for Grantmakers deeply examines the history, strategy, design, and theory behind the process and responds to the diverse nature of evaluation in foundations. Participants will find a balance among learning how to conduct evaluations, managing third-party evaluations, and understanding the importance of evaluation to various foundation and community stakeholders.

Grant Financial Analysis

Grant Financial Analysis is a course designed to provide grantmakers with the necessary knowledge and skills to conduct a comprehensive and effective analysis of organizational and programmatic financial information to improve funding decisions.