All-In Project Support  

For funders who wish to support a specific project rather than a broader program or an organization as a whole, consider providing grants for a set amount without requiring line-item budgets and financial reports. This will allow grantees to use those resources flexibly in ways that best meet the needs of the project, and shift the funder/grantee relationship from conversations about budgets and variances to conversations about progress and outcomes. And efficiently-executed projects might also allow grantees to retain some surplus, strengthening the organization financially as well. (Notably, this is the way that most funder contracts with consultants are structured.) 

This practice is best for: funders who want to support specific projects and are willing to trust grantees’ judgment on how to spend their grant dollars on those projects.