Building a PRI Program

Resources to help you get started:

• PRI Fundamentals for Grantmakers (workshop slideshow)
• Borrow from our boilerplate and template documents to minimize legal and consulting costs
• Identify consultants and other service providers who work with PRI funders
• Peruse our PRI Activity Database of more than 1,400 PRI transactions

Must reads:

• Program-Related Investing: Skills & Strategies for New PRI Funders
• 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.
• A Basic Guide to Program-Related Investments. Christie I. Baxter.