What We Do
Our Accelerator program is a 5-part series that provides you with training, tools, and templates to strengthen and streamline your program management capabilities.
Our team will cover all aspects of program design and grant management, from strategy and design to monitoring and evaluation.
With a focus on making you more effective and efficient, you’ll gain a systematic, scalable framework to:
- Design a stronger strategy
- Improve your grantee selection and qualification process
- Save your staff time
- Generate better results from your grantmaking
- Gain a clearer understanding of your impact
What We Do
Our Accelerator program is a 5-part series that provides you with training, tools, and templates to strengthen and streamline your program management capabilities.
Our team will cover all aspects of program design and grant management, from strategy and design to monitoring and evaluation.
With a focus on making you more effective and efficient, you’ll gain a systematic, scalable framework to:
- Design a stronger strategy
- Improve your grantee selection and qualification process
- Save your staff time
- Generate better results from your grantmaking
- Gain a clearer understanding of your impact
Training Curriculum
This program uses a mix of interactive discussion, case studies, and facilitated training to go through all the critical components of program design and grant management.
Designed to be flexible and accommodating to your team’s needs, it can be done in a one-week intensive format or spread out over time, and can be conducted in person or remotely. Based on an initial assessment of your organization’s existing capabilities and gaps, we tailor the curriculum to concentrate on the areas that are most important to your team.
Module 1: Program Strategy and Design
You’ll learn how to:
- Conduct research and landscaping to identify systemic issues within a geography
- Develop an effective theory of change
- Create effective strategies for grant-making programs
- Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Incorporate participative involvement of local stakeholders
Tools and templates provided:
- Problem tree, solution tree, and results chain templates
- Program strategy template
Module 1: Program Strategy and Design
You’ll learn how to:
- Conduct research and landscaping to identify systemic issues within a geography
- Develop an effective theory of change
- Create effective strategies for grant-making programs
- Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Incorporate participative involvement of local stakeholders
Tools and templates provided:
- Problem tree, solution tree, and results chain templates
- Program strategy template
Module 2: Program Set Up
You’ll learn how to:
- Coordinate with stakeholders
- Source and determine a short list of potential grantees
- Construct a grant portfolio and foster collaboration among grantees (if applicable)
Tools and templates provided:
- Shortlisting tools
- Grant application materials, including narrative, benchmark, and budget documents
Module 3: Partner Selection and Due Diligence
You’ll learn how to:
- Qualify grantees
- Assess organizational and programmatic strengths and risks
- Gauge portfolio and grant risk and understand best practices for risk mitigation
- Structure partnership agreements
- Develop and refine benchmarks to understand the impact of each grant and across a portfolio of grants
Tools and templates provided:
- Partner qualification template
- Risk assessment tools
- Budgeting and benchmarking tools
- Sample MOU agreements
Module 3: Partner Selection and Due Diligence
You’ll learn how to:
- Qualify grantees
- Assess organizational and programmatic strengths and risks
- Gauge portfolio and grant risk and understand best practices for risk mitigation
- Structure partnership agreements
- Develop and refine benchmarks to understand the impact of each grant and across a portfolio of grants
Tools and templates provided:
- Partner qualification template
- Risk assessment tools
- Budgeting and benchmarking tools
- Sample MOU agreements
Module 4: Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
You’ll learn how to:
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of placed grants
- Conduct site visits to assess program impact and identify potential fraud or financial mismanagement
- Practice active grant portfolio management
Tools and templates provided:
- Monitoring and evaluation templates
- Site visit templates
- Grantee reporting materials, including narrative, benchmark, and budget documents
Module 5: Program Close-out
You’ll learn how to:
- Amend, renew, and close out grants
- Assess lessons learned
Tools and templates provided:
- Grant amendment example
Module 5: Program Close-out
You’ll learn how to:
- Amend, renew, and close out grants
- Assess lessons learned
Tools and templates provided:
- Grant amendment example
