Job Descriptions

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Organizing Corporate Contributions: Options and Strategies
Staffing Exerpt- Chapter Four: Creating a Structure
This section of the book covers topics such as determining the appropriate staffing structure, outsourcing, training foundation board and/or contribution committee, and involving employees in the grantmaking process.

Positions, Competencies, Duties
Director of Grants Management, Grants Manager, Grants Management Associate, Grants Management Assistant
“Detailed position descriptions...are tools to help develop grants managment positions appropriate to a foundation’s size and strategic goals. The range of responsibilities of a particular position will vary based on a foundation’s history and structure.”
Grantmaking/Job Descriptions/GM_Job Descriptions_Tools_Positions, Competencies, Duties (Grants Management).pdf

Assorted Sample Job Descriptions:
Executive Director
Program Officer
Associate Director-Communications
Board Chair
Board President
Administrator
Executive Assistant/Secretary

Grantmaking/Job Descriptions/GM_Job Descriptions_Tools_Executive Director Descriptions and Samples.pdf
Grantmaking/Job Descriptions/GM_Job Descriptions_Tools_Asscorted Job Descriptions.pdf

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2008 REGIONAL CONFERENCE

Click here to access materials from the Oct. 15,16 and 17th conference in Sisters, Oregon.

MEMBER SOCIAL

Celebrating the Holiday Season
Hosted by Harold and Arlene Schnitzer

Thursday, December 18, 2008
5:30 - 7:30 pm
The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation
1121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97205

To Register: or 503.226.6340
**There is no charge for the this program**

THIRD THURSDAY PROGRAM

Philanthropy in this Economy

Learning from the Past to Make it Through Today

Thursday, January 15, 2008
11:45 am – 1:30 pm
Northwest Health Foundation, Bamboo Room
221 NW Second Avenue, Suite 300
Portland

$15 members, $35 non-members
Lunch provided.
To Register: or 503.226.6340

http://www.gosw.org/grant/makers/info/philanthropy_and_the_new_economic_landscape

THIRD THURSDAY PROGRAM

Understanding Climate Change

Looking at Solutions from a Funders Perspective

Thursday, February 19, 2008
11:45 am – 1:30 pm
Northwest Health Foundation, Bamboo Room
221 NW Second Avenue, Suite 300
Portland

$15 members, $35 non-members
Lunch provided.
To Register: or 503.226.6340