Reports & Other Publications
Salary and Benefits Report
The GMN Salary and Benefits Report is a biannual examination of grants management compensation and benefits. It guides employers looking to measure salary ranges, check salary increase trends, and compare benefits relative to similar grantmaking organizations. It also helps grants managers understand their value and negotiate competitive compensation. Learn more about the 2011 report.
A Consumer's Guide to Grants Management Software
A Consumer’s Guide to Grants Management Software compares 20 grants management software products, describing the core strengths and weaknesses of each system, showing how they stack up against each other across a set of 17 different criteria, and detailing how each system addresses more than 125 different criteria. The grants management software marketplace has never had a better set of options to support effective and efficient grantmaking, and this report helps grantmakers understand how all these options compare.
A supplement to the report, comparing software available for community foundations and donor-advised funds, will be available by the end of the year.
The publication can be downloaded here.
Beyond the Recycling Bin: Greening Practices of Grantmakers
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As a field committed balancing social awareness and stretching each dollar to maximize mission achievement, philanthropic organizations should be at the forefront of the greening movement. Beyond the Recycling Bin is free report to help grantmaking institutions better understand greening options, the current practices of peers, and the perceived barriers to greening.
The publication can be downloaded here.
Staffing Grants Management
Defining the Standards for Philanthropy
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The staffing needs and duties of the grants management function vary between foundations. This booklet was created as a guide to inform the philanthropic community about the diverse tasks assigned to - and staffing needs necessary for - the grants management function. It defines the numerous roles of grants management and its importance as the department in a foundation in which program, finance, communications, application, approval and administrative functions overlap. To download a PDF of this document click here.