Your grant partners' results are your results, too - so it's in your best interest to support your grant partners to improve your social impact. Wendy Watson-Hallowell of The Rensselaerville Institute and Burt Cummings of Versaic offer specific ways you can partner with grantees and grantmakers to work together toward impact.

1. The Key to Supporting
Your Grant Partners
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Exploring how communication,
engagement, results and a focus on impact
helps grant partners succeed.

2. Wendy Watson-Hallowell
Executive Director, Results Consulting,
The Rensselaerville Institute
Burt Cummings
CEO, Versaic
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Blog Series Authored by:

3. According to a recent report* by the
Center for Effective Philanthropy…
97%
*Source: The Center for Effective Philanthropy, Assessing to Achieve High Performance:
What Nonprofits Are Doing and How Foundations Can Help (2015).
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of nonprofit leaders
are required to report data
on their organization’s
performance.
64%
of nonprofits feel
they don’t receive
enough support from
their funders.

4. So how can grant partners
more effectively support each
other and increase impact?
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5. “It’s a true partnership, enabled by the right
supporting system. It’s an investment in not only
managing your programs more effectively,
but also an investment in your grant partners’
potential and your overall impact.”
Engage, Support, Partner
Burt Cummings
CEO, Versaic

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Burt Cummings
CEO, Versaic
The Right System
“We’ve heard from many of our clients,
Starwood included, that the Versaic system not
only helps them better manage their programs,
but it also helps them more effectively
engage with their grantee partners.”

7. • Ask the right questions! Collect all the data
you need in a single system.
• If it’s in one place, data can easily be tracked,
managed and reported on.
• Use data trends to analyze and improve
overall impact.
• Prove your value with results and outcomes.
The Power of Data
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8. Don’t use results in a punitive way!
“If a partner doesn’t achieve a projected
result, take the time to understand why –
what happened, what could we do differently,
how can we learn from this for next time?
Their results are your results, so it’s in your
interest to help them succeed.”
Shift Your Mindset
Wendy Watson-Hallowell
Executive Director, Results Consulting,
The Rensselaerville Institute
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9. What specific changes in behavior or
condition do you want to see?
Who specifically do you want to serve?
How will these results fit in with your
overall impact (your goals)?
Clarify Your Results
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10. “Your dollars will go further if you can
support one organization working with multiple
nonprofits with similar focus areas…
you increase the opportunity for impact.”
Support an Affinity Group
Wendy Watson-Hallowell
Executive Director, Results Consulting,
The Rensselaerville Institute
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11. “Being able to support your nonprofit partners
in building their capacity means they can
strategically look at their programs,
the results they are achieving and the
transition to becoming impact-focused.”
Provide Capacity-Building $$$
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Wendy Watson-Hallowell
Executive Director, Results Consulting,
The Rensselaerville Institute

12. To learn more about an effective grant
partnership, read the blogs:
How Can You Better Support
Your Grant Partners?
By Burt Cummings, CEO, Versaic
Support Your Grant Partners by
Focusing on Impact
By Wendy Watson-Hallowell, Executive Director, Results Consulting,
The Rensselaerville Institute
For more information,
please call 650-212-7424 or visit
www.versaic.com
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