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Editors' Introduction
Observations on Grantmaking from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology Series
Unlike business, where the goal is to make money, the job of foundations is to give away money. While businesses try to earn a financial return on investment, the return on a foundation's investment is measured by contributions to the public good. The basic tools of business are products (which can be ideas or services); the basic tools of foundations are grants and the communication of information accumulated by their grantees. Investing for financial return is not the same as investing for social return. Thus, while business can offer models and ideas for foundations—particularly in matters of managerial efficiency—the most useful ideas and models come from foundations themselves and the work of their grantees. With this in mind, we have scoured the seven volumes of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series to find out what its 75 chapters reveal about the craft of grantmaking: What distinguishes effective from ineffective grantmaking? What approaches have led to a strong social return on the Foundation's investments? And why?
To Improve Health and Health Care, Volume VII
- 1 Foreword
- 2 Editors' Introduction
- 3 Acknowledgments
- 4 The Fighting Back Program
- 5 Join Together and CADCA
- 6 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Efforts to Contain Health Care Costs
- 7 The Teaching Nursing Home Program
- 8 The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
- 9 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commitment to Increasing Minorities in the Health Professions
- 10 The National Health Policy Forum
- 11 The Injury Free Coalition for Kids
- 12 The Homeless Prenatal Program
- 13 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Response to Emergencies
RWJF Anthology
Biennial book series to disseminate what we have learned from various aspects of our grantmaking.
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