Impact-Driven Grant Design

Impact-Driven Grant Design

When Ethical Grant Cycles Create Dependency Instead of Resilience

The program officer meant well. Three-year grant, flexible reporting, full indirect cost coverage, and a dedicated capacity-building coach. By year tw...

Impact-Driven Grant Design

When Grant Design Must Serve Both Urgency and Transformation

The grant officer stared at the two proposals on her desk. One would feed 1,200 children this year. The other would build a community land trust that ...

Impact-Driven Grant Design

Choosing a Funding Model That Doesn't Collapse When the Grant Ends

grant end. That's not a failure—it's physics. But here is the thing: most impact-driven organiza pattern their fundion model as if the grant will last...