1. Introducing Pennsylvania Foundation Stats

2. Welcome!
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3. Who’s on the Webinar Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania
Jenny Nielsen, Director of Programming
Barb Taylor, Executive Director
Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania
Kurt Bauman, Executive Director
Northeastern Pennsylvania Grantmakers
Sidney Hargro, Executive Director
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia
Davis Parchment, Manager, Knowledge Services
Foundation Center
Who’s on the Webinar

4. The PA Foundation Stats Partnership
Philanthropy Serving Organizations: Networks that strive to strengthen, advance, lead, inform and support the philanthropy sector

5. Our Mission
Strengthen the social sector by advancing knowledge about philanthropy in the U.S. and around the world.

6. Our history “The foundation should have glass pockets”
Russell Leffingwell, Chair of the Board, Carnegie Corporation
Larry --- history commonality in context of closing space and our history

8. DATA IS STILL BEING COLLECTED
2015
2016
2017
DATA IS STILL BEING COLLECTED

9. Pennsylvania Foundation Stats

10. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO MAKE IT BETTER
Assume EVERYTHING will be published
Protect Personal Information
Avoid Acronyms
Avoid Foundation Speak
Specify Paid/Authorized
Focus on grant descriptions
SHARE AS MUCH DATA AS POSSIBLE!

12. What grant details to share?
Encouraged
Required
Recipient name
Recipient city
Recipient state
Grant description
Fiscal year
Grant amount
Transaction ID
Recipient address
Recipient postal code
Recipient EIN
Grant program area
Subject(s)
Population(s) served
Geographic area served
Grant duration or grant start/end dates

13. A GOOD GRANT DESCRIPTION
Anatomy:
WHAT: What is the primary objective of the grant?
HOW: How will the objectives of the grant be achieved?
WHO: Which group or groups are meant to benefit from the grant?
WHERE: What geographic location(s) is the grant meant to serve?
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#map4good

14. Grant Descriptions http://blog.glasspockets.org/open-990-series/
“I have found making this journey is worth it. Because, after all, behind every grant lies a story waiting to be told and a community waiting to hear it. So, let’s get our stories straight!”
Detailed grant descriptions go a long way in allowing us to classify your information properly and better tell the story of your work. Gretchen Schackel, Grants Manager at the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, offers helpful tips to address the pain points of writing grant descriptions in her TransparencyTalk blog post: “No Pain, No Gain: The Reality of Improving Grant Descriptions.” Her conclusion: “I have found making this journey is worth it. Because, after all, behind every grant lies a story waiting to be told and a community waiting to hear it. So, let’s get our stories straight!”

15. Q & A Kurt Bauman, Executive Director kbauman@nepa-alliance.org
Jenny Nielsen, Director of Programming
Barb Taylor, Executive Director
Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania
Kurt Bauman, Executive Director
Northeastern Pennsylvania Grantmakers
Sidney Hargro, Executive Director
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia
Davis Parchment, Manager, Knowledge Services
Foundation Center
Q & A