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 In addition to helping to ensure its granteesÕ long-term sustainability by funding their general operating needs and capacity-building efforts, FACT has initiated a number of studies and other projects to help its board, grantees, and the grantmaking sector as a whole better understand the factors and Òbest practicesÓ that can increase the effectiveness and longevity of progressive organizations.
These efforts include:
- grant making in the new media arena approved by the Board as a unique family project;
- two webinars in December 2008 led by a team of consultants from FACT's Management Assistance Program on the impact of the economic crisis on non-profit budgets. You can download a presentation of the webinar: Assessing financial health presentation;
- work to encourage greater electoral activism and voter engagement among its grantees and within the progressive sector as a whole;
- a Community Organizing Evaluation Project
to help organizations evaluate their activities and impact;
- a study on groupsÕ ability to diversify and stabilize their funding through earned income
from sales of mission-related goods and services; and
- a report on a variety of ways foundations have adopted policies of higher or flexible payout without necessarily intending to spend down: Beyond five percent
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