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Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative. (Learn more)
Arizona Together for Impact Fund (Learn more)
Better Together Fund (Learn more)
The Forbes Funds (Learn more)
Nonprofit Repositioning Fund (Learn more)
New York Merger and Collaboration Fund (Learn more)
Austin Together Fund (Learn more)
Arizona Together for Impact is a statewide pilot initiative to improve the capacity, sustainability, and financial health of nonprofits.
Launch Date
November 2019
Initiative Manager
Nora Hannah: Arizona Grantmakers Forum
Grants
38 grants, totaling over $438,000
Funders
22 community, private, corporate, and family foundations
Austin Together Fund is a pilot initiative created to support nonprofit organizations as they explore and commit to formal collaborations that increase the impact of their work in the Central Texas community.
Launch Date
July 2019
Initiative Managers
Karen LaShelle, Ray Brimble, Rich Smalling, Carla Denison-Bickett
Grants
20 grants totaling over $850,000
Funders
10 Private donors and family foundations
Better Together Fund is a pilot program to encourage and support nonprofits to explore formal, long-term collaborations as a way to maximize impact.
Launch Date
June 2017
Initiative Manager
Brittani Trusty: Dallas Foundation; Margaret Black: Lyda Hill Philanthropies
Grants
102 grants, totaling over $6.1 million
Funders
5 community, private, and family foundations
The Nonprofit Repositioning Fund supports long-term, strategic alliances and collaborations to build organizational sustainability and improve program and service delivery across the five-county Greater Philadelphia region.
Launch Date
October 2015
Initiative Manager
Lindsay Kijewski: SeaChange
Grants
78 grants, totaling over $1.74 million
Funders
11 private and corporate foundations
The Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative fosters long-term partnerships for nonprofits interested in exploring strategic restructuring to create sustainable impact.
Launch Date
December 2012
Initiative Manager
Carrie Harlow
Grants
155 grants, totaling over $5.3 million
Funders
20 corporate, private, and family foundations
The Mission Sustainability Initiative at Forefront is dedicated to helping nonprofits thrive in Illinois by providing the resources for leaders to regularly and thoughtfully explore collaboration and partnership strategies.
Launch Date
June 2016
Initiative Manager
Kate Piatt-Eckert
Grants
56 grants, totaling over $1.2 million
Funders
8 private and family foundations
The New York Merger and Collaboration Fund makes grants to encourage and support programmatic alliances, mergers, joint ventures, and other types of formal, long-term collaborations between nonprofits predominantly serving New York City.
Launch Date
March 2012
Initiative Manager
John MacIntosh: SeaChange
Grants
73 grants, totaling over $2.13 million
Funders
15 foundations and individual donors
The Forbes Funds (TFF) is an intermediary foundation that focuses on building the management capacity and strengthening the impact of community-based nonprofits individually and collectively.
Launch Date
February 2016
Initiative Manager
Fred Brown
Grants
143 grants, totaling over $2.5 million
Funders
20 community, private, and family foundations
The SeaChange-Lodestar Fund encourages and supports alliances, mergers, joint-ventures, and others types of formal, sustained long-term collaborations between nonprofits.
Launch Date
2009
Initiative Managers
Lindsay Kijewski: SeaChange
Grants
169 grants, totaling over $2.8 million
Funders
2 nonprofit and private foundations
The Transformational Partnerships Fund provides colleges and universities support to explore student-centric partnerships that could meaningfully transform how they operate.
Launch Date
April 2021
Initiative Manager
John MacIntosh: SeaChange
Grants
13 grants, totaling over $1.04 million
Funders
4 community, private and family foundations