Investing in Sustainability: Adding Value in Georgia

Many foundation executives and staff struggle to understand the most strategic role they should play to help continue critical safety net programs in their communities. Grantmakers also struggle with how to ensure the maximum benefits of their investments. By building organizational capacity to successfully plan for sustainability, nonprofit organizations, individuals and communities will derive long-term benefits. Without this work, many recent gains made in these communities will be lost.

How can grantmakers help current and future grantees sustain their community improvements? This publication, funded by the Healthcare Georgia Foundation, examines issues related to planning for sustainability, keys to achieving it, examples from nonprofits and recommendations for grantmakers and individual philanthropists on how to help organizations achieve their missions.

Copies of this brief are available for download or by contacting us at 916-646-8680 or ccp@civicpartnerships.org

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