The Foundation believes that, to be effective, grantmaking should be directed by defined goals and desired impacts. Our program will be:

• Focused on outcomes
• Sensitive to the needs and responsive to the capacities of communities and grantees
• Driven by the latest knowledge in the field
• Strategic in design
• Collaborative with grantees and the community the grant seeks to affect
• Measurable in results
• Sustainable in improvement

Adapted from Principles for Effective Grantmaking (Grantmakers for Education, May 2005).