Community Fund explains how it assesses grants
Howard Lake | 19 July 2002 | News
The Community Fund has opened up its procedures to all grant applicants.
The Community Fund has unravelled the mystery of what makes an application successful by publishing its new Grant Assessment Manuals on its Web site. The manuals show the full internal methods used by grants officers in assessing applications under the Community Fund’s six grants programmes.
Luke FitzHerbert, of the Directory of Social Change said: “At last, the full scoring instructions! The Community Fund has set an example that should be followed by every other grant maker handling public funds.
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“By also including on their website the minutes of Board and Policy Committee meetings, the Fund is setting an unmatched level of transparency in the grant making field.”
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.