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Overview
Grant makers everywhere want to meet, discuss, learn,
and share. Associated Grant Makers provides a neutral place for
grant makers to network and collaborate and to access information
and technical assistance. Our common purpose is to strengthen the
individual and collective philanthropy of local and regional grant
making organizations.
AGM offers programs throughout the year that are designed to educate,
update, challenge and inform grant makers. We produce professional
development workshops to sharpen the skills of grant maker staff
and trustees. (See Grant Maker Programs
for more information.)
To address the specific interests of peer groups within philanthropy,
we convene roundtables -- Community Foundations, Small Independent
& Family Foundations, and Corporate Giving. AGM also provides
administrative and marketing support to a variety of philanthropic
affinity groups and funder collaboratives. (See Collaboratives
& Affinity Groups for more information.)
AGM's Giving Network (GNET) works with new donors
in the philanthropic community, delivering donor-focused learning
in donor-friendly environments with the aim of increasing philanthropic
capital. GNET follows a “high-tech, high-touch” model
of providing Internet-based resources and tools and direct engagement
of new donors. GNET actively promotes philanthropy via existing
networks -- including professional advisors, entrepreneurs, next
generation, diverse communities, and women -- with web-based tools,
education, events and media initiatives. (See the GNET
Web site for more information.)
The Resource Center for Philanthropy serves as
the information hub for the philanthropic community represented
by AGM and its members. The Center and its professional staff collect,
organize, and provide grant makers and nonprofit organizations with
physical and virtual access to information resources produced by
publishers, research organizations, national and regional foundations,
academics and practitioners, and the members of AGM themselves.
Membership in AGM provides grant makers with access to an extensive
network of staff and trustees and foundations, corporate giving
programs, and other organizations making grants in Massachusetts
and New Hampshire. AGM's members are among the most skilled and
informed philanthropists in the country. They represent many distinct
values, styles and personalities and address a wide range of issues.
Yet despite this diversity, they are bound together by a common
purpose: to shape a better future for the residents of our region.
(See AGM Membership for more
about the benefits of joining AGM.)
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