Rural Grantmaking & Program Activities

The Learning Network's Thinking and Action Frameworks provide roadmaps for your approach to grantmaking and program activities.

Thinking and Action Frameworks

The Learning Network staff have developed two distinct but related Thinking and Action Frameworks covering grantmaking and program activities:

Building Rural Livelihood is a framework for how community foundations can design effective grantmaking and program efforts to help build the economic vitality of rural families and communities. Based on RDP experience since 1993, the guts of this framework is the RDP Program Design Circle, and its eight questions.
Margins to Mainstream: Community Foundations Advancing Family Economic Success delves a bit more deeply into a roadmap of decision points in your work to improve the economic success of families in your service area.