Our value is not only document drafting and compliance (which quite frankly if you have unlimited time you can do yourself quite well...eventually). The value is a been-there-done-that access to people who can show you how to start your foundation or growing your foundation up.

Think about it:

Communicate and Learn on Your Own Time:

• Not having to be in the same place and at the same time still be able to communicate.

Foundation Knowledge Management and Library:

• An online community automatically keeps a history of it's conversations, it creates 'artifacts' to refer back to.

Not-For-Profit and Foundation Orientation:

• An online community enables 'newbies' to stay for a while and get a feel for what we are all about. Observe the dynamics of the group before publicly jumping in.

Diversity:

• Get a tap of collective knowledge of many different people, in different places and with differing levels of foundation experience. Don't be surprised if you have some great ideas for even the most season foundation director. Diversity is power. There's no other way to get conversations and knowledge of the caliber that The Giving Platform community allows.

Control:

• An 'anytime and anyplace' framework for facilitating and building partnerships, friendships, collaboration, masterminding, planning and community organizations around not-for-profit and foundation environments.

Leverage Foundation Skill, Contacts and Resources

• A place to leverage information and building a knowledge base in order to improve the quality and performance of your foundation.

Synergy for Foundations:

• Becomes a 'platform' for creative synergy and a framework for maintaining time and -attention, managed creation! You have the great ideas in your specialty now see how the puzzle fits together by sharing your ideas and listening to others. That's how we all help faster and more efficiently.

Do you see what's happening here? You have an idea and tell this community. Someone sees your post and you get an email. You in turn help another and pretty soon we are all helping which is what will really make the world something different than what we have all made before now. Come and play with us, serve with us, grow with us.