Round: G

If you feel that you have reached a plateau in your current job, this session will help you consider creative ways to grow in your current position, while keeping yourself marketable for the future.

Scanning the landscape is taking time to venture into the community or to research your field to find out how to make the most impact. Scanning can help you develop your mission by bringing knowledge of priority needs into your discussions. Scanning can also help you design your grantmaking strategy by identifying barriers to progress, promising approaches, effective agencies, and public funding streams. Learn about the benefits of landscape scanning, ways to get started, information sources, and tips for greatest success.

For more than a decade, donors, foundation board members, community leaders, and legislators have been tireless in their requests for greater grantmaking impact. As federal dollars to the social sector are slashed, impact will become more important than ever. One tool with the potential to help grantmakers leverage limited resources into better decision making and greater impact is Community Information Systems (CIS). By organizing critical data systems into an integrated community knowledge base, CIS systems could provide both the roadmap and the support for continuous improvement in grantmaker impact.