Standards and Effective Practices for Community Foundations
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A community foundation widely disseminates grant guidelines to ensure the fullest possible participation from the community it serves.
Grantmaking and Community Leadership - Standard V. Part C.

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The Standard

A community foundation widely disseminates grant guidelines to ensure the fullest possible participation from the community it serves.

Underlying Rationale

Assures the spectrum of community grant seekers have access to the community foundation, provides the foundation with knowledge about the community’s new and emerging challenges and opportunities and provides encouragement to donors to convey broad discretionary powers with their gifts to the community foundation.

Potential Outcomes

Reinforces the notion that the community foundation belongs to the entire community.

Attracts a diverse pool of applicants and grantees.