Membership Benefits

Professional Development

Training opportunities for your organization’s staff available for free or reduced cost, including workshops, issue forums and webinars.

Collaborative Learning and Partnership Opportunities

Join with other local funders to learn about issues facing Rhode Island, best practices, effective strategies for replication, nonprofit initiatives, potential private-public partnerships, and opportunities to leverage the resources and influence of the philanthropic community to maximize community impact statewide.

Local and National Connections

Networking events with peers in Rhode Island as well as invitations to networking events with funding organizations throughout the country through GCRI’s membership in United Philanthropy Forum.

Best Practices and Resource Library

No need to reinvent the wheel!  Discover sample policies, forms and applications; proven prototypes; and evaluation tools in the Resources section of our website.

Impala

GCRI members have access to the Premium level of IMPALA, an online research and data platform for the nonprofit sector that provides nonprofits and funders access to the information they need to perform a range of tasks — funders can use Impala to conduct due diligence by looking at a nonprofit’s financials over multiple years and data points. Funders can also evaluate their grantee portfolios to see trends and monitor risk and target co-funding opportunities.

Organizational Assistance

GCRI can serve as a valuable conduit, linking you to specific resources, organizations, best practices, peer organizations and references that address your organization’s particular concerns and challenges. Just call or email with a question!

Publicity for Initiatives, Grants and Job Opportunities

Members can highlight successful programs by submitting profiles for posting on the Member Highlight page of the GCRI website.  RFP’s and job openings can also be publicized in our newsletters and on our website. Share them via email with GCRI’s executive director.

Foundation Legal Help Desk

The Foundation Legal Help Desk is operated by our colleagues at the Indiana Philanthropy Alliance. The Help Desk is designed to provide community, private and family foundations with access to answers to legal questions related to the operations of a foundation through a yearly low-cost fee. The foundation world is a complex field that requires specialized legal knowledge and many foundations do not have easy access to an attorney with expertise in this field. Different levels and fees are available depending on organizational size and usage.

Publications

GCRI members are eligible for discounted subscriptions to the Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Foundation Review and Alliance magazine.

Insurance

Great American Insurance Group offers premium pricing to GCRI members on D&O liability, fiduciary liability, employment liability, cyber liability and more.

Candid (GuideStar)

GCRI members are eligible for 20% discounts on popular products like GuideStar Premium and Pro, Financial SCAN, GuideStar Nonprofit Compensation Report and GuideStar Charity Check.

Discount on Exponent Philanthropy Membership

Exponent Philanthropy is an association of small grantmakers focused on foundations with few or no staff, philanthropic families, and individual donors. GCRI members can receive $100 off the first year of membership in Exponent Philanthropy.