Forum Initiatives
The Forum’s 33 members represent more than 4,000 foundations, corporations, organizations, and individual donors. We provide
professional and association management services for our members and help to leverage our collective resources to support philanthropy across the country. The following initiatives are sources for new ideas and effective solutions for the challenges that affect philanthropy.
In This Area
- Building Grantmaker Effectiveness and Accountability
Learn how to increase grantmaker effectiveness and fulfill the public trust from resources and tools on grantmaker education, guiding priciples, public policy, and communications.
- Grantmaker Education
Find out about the Forum's efforts to improve the capacity of regional associations to train and educate grantmakers at all levels of experience.
- Knowledge Management
Find out how the Forum encourages the generation, collection, and sharing of philanthropic knowledge through a Web-based Knowledge Management (KM) system.