Events Detail

Grants, Grantors, Grantees: What is the meaning of a grant? What obligation - what sort of relationship - does it imply for grantors and grantees?

The Foundation Center was the gracious host of our third dialogue, attended by twenty-one researchers, program officers, foundation and non-profit leaders, trustees, donors, and grantees.

Discussants drew from the following three opinion pieces:

"Grantmaking Today and the Donor/Donee Relationship" by Joseph S. Dolan

"Foundation Grants and the Grantor/Grantee Relationship" by Sara Engelhardt

"Grants, Grantors, Grantees" by Eugene R. Wilson

This response was written after the July 21 dialogue, drawing from the discussion:

"'I Give Only to My Friends...'" by Albert Keith Whitaker

The entire transcript of the July 21 discussion is now available by clicking here.

To learn more about the other events in this series please click below:

Dialogue 1:  Goals and Intentions: What Should Today's Philanthropy Aim To Do?

Dialogue 2:  Accountability: For what and To Whom Should Philanthropy Be Responsible? 

Dialogue 4:  Philanthropic Leadership: What Should We Expect from Philanthropic Leadership?

Dialogue 5:  Bequests and Legacies: What Should Guide People Who Leave Their Money?

Dialogue 6:  Effectiveness: How Should Philanthropy Judge Its Success?