At TruthSpeaks Consulting, we help small and medium sized foundations to develop and manage their giving programs.

If you are a donor seeking to start a foundation, you will have many questions:

• In what geographic area should you give?
• What types of issues and programs do you want to support?  Economic development?  Youth development?  Health?
• Within your chosen issue area, what are the best practices and lessons learned?
• How do you find worthy grant recipients, and how do you evaluate their work?
  

Even for an existing foundation with a relatively small staff, these and similar questions can be hard to answer.  Quite often, the staff at small foundations are so busy managing the current giving programs that they don't have time for the necessary ongoing strategic development.

Keeping track of the latest research in philanthropy is difficult, and keeping track of the innovative techniques that are developing every day in the field can be even more difficult.  On top of that, what do you do when there's a mis-match between the "expert" research and the realities on the ground?

Whether you are just thinking of starting your giving program or evaluating your already existing operations, TruthSpeaks can help help you with every stage of the process, from developing your mission and vision to developing your programs and grant guidelines, from identifying potential recipients to establishing grant management and evaluation.

If you fit any of the following categories:

• Individual donors
• Entertainer and sports foundations
• Family foundations
• Corporate foundations

then call TruthSpeaks and let us help you to help others.  After all, when truth speaks, good things happen!