This Week from Grassroots Grantmakers

For every dollar that goes into helping neighbors engage with each other, experience is teaching us that those neighbors can leverage or match those dollars by 200%.

- Marc McAleavey
Indianapolis Neighborhood
Resource Center

Big Thinking This Week
How is the economy impacting the demand side of the grant equation?

Janis heard from Lisa Leverette recently about her experience in Detroit, and was surprised by what she heard. Check out Janis' blog to read about the implications of less demand for grants at a time when our communities are demanding more from all of us.

How is the economy affecting the demand for grants in your community? Post a comment to share your experience and keep the conversation going.

Is This You?	Are you a grassroots grantmaker? Look here to see what we mean by grassroots grantmaking. Take a look at the growing list of organizations who consider themselves grassroots grantmakers and are active supporters of our network. And look here to learn more about "grassroots grantmaking clusters" - places where support for "active citizenship" is in the water.

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April 8, 2009

Question of the Week

What one resource would you list as "required reading" for funders engaged in grassroots grantmaking?

Here's a book that we like.

Help us build this list! Send us a note about your favorite.

On the Ground in San Diego
In Partnership with the Jacobs Family Foundation and the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation
April 23-24, 2009

Still time to register at the $250 rate! But TODAY is the last day for our the special $149 fully refundable rate that we negotiated with the Westin San Diego, our lodging home-base.

Check out the two-day agenda.
Click here to register on-line.

April 28 with Peter Block
Join us on Tuesday, April 28 (3:00 ET) to talk with Peter Block about his new book:

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Participation is free and open to everyone who cares about working in a "residents at the center" way to support active citizenship.

Click here to register.

Tom O'Brien on Radical Hospitality

Remember when you were new to philanthropy? What were your perceptions as you tried to find your place in the complex puzzle of community change?

We recently asked Tom O'Brien, Program Director of Neighborhood Connections, The Cleveland Foundation's grassroots grantmaking program, to share what he is learning as he is shifting from his long time role working on the ground to his new role as grantmaker.

Read Tom O'Brien's reflections here. Learn how he is tapping into his experience of what it was like on the other side of the table to establish a climate of "radical hospitality" for Neighborhood Connections.

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