C10: Ramping Up Funders’ Impact With More Than Money
Track
Collaborating for Greater Impact
Session Designer
Beth Duda, The Patterson Foundation
Session Description
Effective grantmaking requires more than check writing and due diligence. The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading has identified eight different roles funders are playing in their local efforts across the U.S., ranging from backbone organization to learning agent to communicator, to add value beyond funding. This session will introduce a framework that defines these different roles and an assessment tool that your organization can use to take stock of all the assets it can deploy to achieve positive impact. Through a hands-on exercise, you will consider what the right role is for your foundation and discuss with speakers and peers how you can use the Campaign’s framework to align with and complement other funders in your community, regardless of the issue area you fund. Speakers from different foundations and communities will share how they’ve used the tool to examine their own strengths and assets and help achieve greater impact by playing roles beyond traditional grantmaking.
Session Designers
Beth Duda, The Patterson Foundation
Speakers
![[photo]](https://8ca84662c5b8f0cff50d-4baaaf97d63fd7b01243e1b1c57f0cc1.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/1091/profile_907343c35da529a80f41410455885b84.png "Sherece Y. West-Scantlebury, The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation")
Sherece Y. West-Scantlebury, The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
Biography
Sherece Y. West-Scantlebury is president and CEO of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, a private, independent foundation whose mission is to improve the lives of all Arkansans in three interrelated areas: economic development; education; and economic, racial, and social justice. Involved in philanthropy for over 20 years, Dr. West-Scantlebury served as CEO at the Foundation for Louisiana and as a program associate at the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Her professional career includes nearly 30 years of experience in community development, public policy and advocacy, and public service.
![[photo]](https://8ca84662c5b8f0cff50d-4baaaf97d63fd7b01243e1b1c57f0cc1.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/1092/profile_1091ce6df48ac40a2b4cc1cd7919ee53.png "Beth Duda, The Patterson Foundation")
Beth Duda, The Patterson Foundation
Biography
Beth leads the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading in the Suncoast region of Florida. An award-winning playwright and educator, Beth’s twenty years of experiences working in Elementary schools fuel her commitment to improve reading proficiency in the Suncoast region and beyond. The Patterson Foundation is involved in The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading at the local level, funding the Campaign in Sarasota, FL; at the state level helping to bring funders together in a state-wide funder collaborative; and at the national level, providing enterprise support focused on communications and network building.