Grant Dollars
While the maximum grant amount is capped at $26,000, about 1/3 of the grants (36%) were for less than $25,000, and some were for as little as $6,000.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Children and Family Fellowship is an intensive executive leadership program for accomplished professionals. The Fellows Alumni Network helps alumni Fellows with a mini-grants program designed to support ongoing leadership efforts and enable innovation and risk-taking through quick-turn-around resources difficult to secure elsewhere. This report summarizes 10 years of the Fellows Network mini-grants history, alumni involvement and awards.
Roughly 50% of the grants supported direct service and/or service development work (i.e., new programs).
The other 50% of the grants supported indirect activities such as staff or leadership development, organizational capacity-building, strategic planning, research, communications, or Results-Based Accountability (RBA) work.
While the maximum grant amount is capped at $26,000, about 1/3 of the grants (36%) were for less than $25,000, and some were for as little as $6,000.
In 10 years, 96 grants were made for just over $2.2 million. Of these 96 grants, 44 went to Fellows working in government, 42 went to Fellows working in nonprofit organizations, and 11 went to Fellows working as independent consultants.
$2.2 million directly invested by Casey leveraged approximately $29.3 million in additional funds coming from a range of sources— small local foundation grants for a few thousand dollars each, to city, state, or federal government allocations in the millions.
