grant making
WE ARE BOTH A VENTURE PHILANTHROPHY AND A PRO BONO CONSULTANCY PROVIDING STRATEGIC SERVICES TO SELECT GRANTEES
Our grantmaking teams, comprised of professionals from the top consulting firms (Join Us!), are focused on:
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identifying highly effective nonprofit partners with compelling breakthrough ideas,
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resourcing grantees to create and implement strategic plans for scale,
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analyzing data, conducting, and commissioning research to measure impact,
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problem solving alongside grantees to learn and continually improve.
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OUR APPROACH
Go Deep
→ Underlying all our work is a rigorous due diligence process. Our engagement with a potential grantee is predicated on a deep and clear understanding of the organization’s goals, leadership capacity, theory of change, program and outcomes.
Strengthen Organizations
→ The agents of change are the nonprofits we support – not One8 itself. As a result, we identify organizations with missions, strategies, and capabilities well matched to our goals and then provide operating support.
Strategic Levers
→ We focus our grantmaking on four strategic levers:
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- Pilot a diverse set of exemplars that demonstrate what is possible.
- Scale impactful programs with proven results.
- Develop the capacity of grantee leaders with potential to dramatically drive impact.
- Support and share research that enables insight, evaluation and continuous improvement.
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Quality Strategy and Planful Implementation
→ Multi-year funding requires organizations with solid strategic plans and detailed annual implementation plans.
- Our foundation does not consider unsolicited grant proposals. Periodically, One8 may invite small grant proposals for an endeavor.
- We only provide grants to 501(c)(3) organizations.
- Our grants to universities and government agencies have a maximum overhead of 2.5%.