Overview of the Contents
The book opens with a prologue introducing you to foundations: their history, structure, and function in society, and the role of the foundation program officer. There follow chapters on setting grantmaking priorities and on grantmaking considered as a human enterprise. These chapters address such questions as these: Is grantmaking a calling or a profession? What kind of person should become a grantmaker? How can you avoid the “seven temptations” of philanthropy?
Chapters Three through Fourteen focus on your essential work as a program officer: meeting with applicants, reviewing proposals, declining proposals, conducting site visits, recommending proposals for funding, making oral presentations to the board or funding ...
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