Grantmakers in the News
June 1, 2005
Name: Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
Year founded: 1936
Address: 147 S.Cherry St., Suite 200
Winston-Salem, NC 27101-5287
Telephone: 336-725-7541
Fax: 336-725-6069
E-mail: info@zsr.org
URL: http://www.zsr.org
The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has launched a capacity-building initiative to support nonprofits that fight domestic violence in the greater Winston-Salem area of North Carolina. Although the Foundation has a history of supporting domestic-violence groups, this project is an effort to shift their grantmaking to a more strategic role.
The Foundation has hired consultants from Philanthropic Advisory Group and Perry & Associates to work with five nonprofits for one year to build their fundraising capacity. The consultants will work with Oasis in Boone; Families Living Violence Free in Oxford; Orange County Rape Crisis Center in Chapel Hill; Harbor in Smithfield; and My Sister’s House in Rocky Mount. The consultants will help these organizations evaluate various fundraising strategies, such as special events, annual campaigns, and individual giving, and will work with the boards of the nonprofits to help them understand their fundraising role.
The Foundation is also funding a study, to be conducted by the
Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, to identify federal and state government funding sources that local domestic violence agencies may not know about. Another component to the initiative is a project to identify technology tools that can help these agencies collect data to support their need for further funding.
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