Traditional grantmaking, whereby individual groups or people apply for pools of funding through a linear, all-or-nothing process, is inefficient, wasteful, and opaque to applicants and other outsiders ...

New AI capabilities enhance grant decision-making with a focus on fairness, privacy and scalability AI is transforming ...

Challenge.gov, which celebrated its fifth anniversary this fall, is a federal website that showcases requests by government agencies for the public to tackle hard problems in exchange for cash prizes ...

What do grantees really need? In the midst of GEO’s recent annual planning process, I met with the executive director of a community health clinic at a coffee shop in her clinic’s neighborhood.

In the ever-changing philanthropy landscape, traditional grantmaking’s limitations are becoming increasingly apparent. As societal challenges grow more complex, the need for innovative and impactful ...

Children at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua, one of the organizations receiving grants from the People’s United Community Foundation, which has aligned its grantmaking priorities with the New ...

On August 7, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14332, “Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking”, a sweeping directive that reshapes the federal grantmaking process. Framed as a move to ...

"Blackbaud Grantmaking helps grantmakers efficiently manage their entire grant cycle like no other company in social impact," said Heather Johnson, director of product management, Blackbaud. "With ...

The Trump administration swept into office with a noble goal: Burn federal grantmaking to the ground. Taxpayers throw ...

Traditional philanthropy has a problem. The top-down, hierarchical power structure often undercuts efforts to make lasting change. In fact, the system itself can mirror the very conditions that ...

When he thought no one was paying attention, Secretary Miguel Cardona made it the official policy of the Education Department to award grants based in part on how thoroughly applicants embrace ...