Philanthropists must own their dreams. Headwaters provides the grantmaking tools to bring these dreams to life. Whether reinventing, refining, or creating a new foundation - we have the expertise to help achieve excellence in grantmaking.

We help build organizational infrastructure by assessing current operations and staffing. We offer improvements, or we can start from scratch and help build anew.

Our grant management services help identify the best giving opportunities and administer philanthropic budgets to make the biggest impact.

Our services:

• Develop and manage programs
• Research grantmaking opportunities
• Create grant guidelines and solicitation materials
• Develop the grant review process and materials
• Prepare standard correspondence with applicants and grantees
• Review grant proposals
• Analyze strategic impacts
• Prepare board dockets and board briefing materials

We work closely with clients to identify potential grantees - those organizations that can best fulfill the vision on a local, national, or global basis. We ensure that the review process is sound and informative.

Our objective is always the same: a successful partnership between grantee and philanthropist.