Looking to create a PRI program?

You'll need ideas on how to get started:

• Find other members that have similar missions: contact information (members only),
• PRI Conference Transcript: Reflections on Becoming a PRI Funder
• Borrow from Boilerplate and template documents to minimize your legal and consulting costs, (members only)
• Identify consultants and other service providers who work with PRI funders (members only),
• Peruse PRI Activity Database with more than 1000 PRI transactions (to come early 2007) (members only).
• Consider how CARS looks at prospective PRI recipients, CDFI Assessment and Rating System (CARS)-- comprehensive, third-party analyses of CDFIs
• Program-Related Investing: Skills & Strategies for New PRI Funders www.grantcraft.org
• Program-Related Investments: A User-Friendly Guide
• Program-Related Investments: More complicated than grants, but worth considering by Robert Jaquay in Shelterforce Online.
• Matching Program Strategy and PRI Cost. Frances Brody, John Weiser, Scott Miller, Phyllis Joffe (editor).
• Should We Consider a PRI? Basic Program-Related investment Criteria for Foundations and Nonprofit Organizations. Frances Brody, Christa Velasquez, 2002.
• A Basic Guide to Program-Related Investments. Christie I. Baxter, 1997.
• PRI Fundamentals for Grantmakers 2006 (Workshop PPT from the PRI Conference 2006) or attend the PRI Fundamentals for Grantmakers 2007 on March 27, 2007 in San Francisco.>
• PRI Glossary of Terms

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