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Grantmakers for Thriving Youth
Field Survey 2019

You are receiving an invitation to complete this survey as one of 300 grantmakers in the Grantmakers for Thriving Youth (GTY) network. 

Launched in 2016, GTY is a funders’ forum advancing a comprehensive approach to learning and development that will enable all young people to acquire the skills and capacities they need to thrive in learning, work, citizenship and life. To learn more about GTY, please click here.
 
GTY seeks to build the field in strategic and impactful ways. To do so, we want to better understand how funders in our network invest and where you turn for knowledge and connections. Results of this survey will help us better design resources that meet your needs.

This survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. If there are multiple people in your organization receiving this survey, we welcome all of you to complete it. We will only share aggregate results. Individual results will be confidential.

As a token of our appreciation, we will randomly select 5 respondents to receive a gift package of books by leading authors in the field.
 
Thank you for your time and engagement!
 
The GTY Steering Committee and Facilitation Team 


 


1.Please let us know your:
2.Please choose the type of your grantmaking organization:
3.What is the geographic scope of your grantmaking?
4.If local, state, regional or international, please indicate where you invest.
5.What philanthropic networks do you participate in? Check all that apply.
6.There are multiple terms used to describe efforts to ensure that children and youth develop a full range of skills and capacities to succeed in school, work, citizenship and life. Does your foundation provide grants in any of the areas mentioned below? Check all that apply.
7.For the remainder of this survey, we are using the term SEL to stand in for all the terms listed in the previous question.  Within your SEL grantmaking portfolio, do you fund (check all that apply):
8.Does your SEL grantmaking seek to (check all that apply):
9.Please note if you fund in the following areas to advance SEL (check all that apply):
10.Does your SEL grantmaking portfolio have an equity lens?
11.Please estimate the total dollar amount of grants provided by your organization to support SEL efforts over the past year.
12.What percent of your organization's overall grantmaking budget does your SEL portfolio represent?
13.Do you fund collaboratively in SEL with other funders (either pooled or aligned)?
14.If yes, please list the collaboratives, pooled, or aligned funds you are a part of:
15.Does your organization engage in any of the following activities in addition to grantmaking to advance your SEL-related goals? Check all that apply.
16.How do you keep up-to-date on developments in the SEL field? Check all that apply.
17.Please name your top 3 go-to organizations for SEL news and knowledge:
18.Please tell us how useful you find GTY's current resources:
Very Useful
Somewhat Useful
Not Useful
I'm Not Familiar With This
GTY Newsletter: Resources for Funders
19.What are your top challenges in effective SEL grantmaking?
Major challenge
Minor challenge
Not a challenge
Defining what SEL is
Keeping up with developing research and effective practice in the field
Developing effective grantmaking strateges for SEL
Deciding where to target my limited grantmaking budget
Convincing foundation leadership/board to invest in SEL
Understanding and aligning with other funders in the space
20.Please tell us how useful you would find:
Very Useful
Moderately Useful
Not Useful
Meeting colleagues with similar funding interests within the SEL space
Shared learning with funders and field leaders around SEL practice, research, policy
Programs focused on improving grantmaking craft around SEL
Opportunities for collaborative or aligned funding (pooled or not) to advance SEL
Maps and trend data of SEL-focused philanthropy 
An online searchable database of SEL resources
21.Please let us know if you have comments or questions you’d like to share with GTY or if you'd like us to follow up with you.