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Attend the Second National PRI Conference at the Loews New Orleans Hotel January 29-31, 2008! This is a must-attend event for grantmakers and social investors interested in or involved with PRIs. Register today!
Here are resources to help you get started with your PRI:
- Familiarize yourself with the language of PRIs with our PRI Glossary of Terms
- Contact PRI Makers Network members with similar missions
- Review this 2006 National Conference transcript on Becoming a PRI Funder
- Take a look at this training workshop from the 2006 National Conference: PRI Fundamentals for Grantmakers 2006
- 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 (new in 2007)
- Consider how CARS looks at prospective PRI recipients, CDFI Assessment and Rating System (CARS),comprehensive third-party analyses of CDFIs
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.