Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University
Click here to download "Capital Ideas: Moving from Short-Term Engagement to Long-Term Sustainability" by Kathleen Buechel, Elizabeth Keating and Clara Miller, published in 2007.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hauser/whats_new/CI_proceedings.pdf
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
Click here to read about or download the "General Operating Support Action Guide" published in 2007.
http://www.geofunders.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=492&nodeID=1
Grantmakers in the Arts
Click here to read about and order "Field Resource Book Volume 1: General Operating Support: Case Studies and Reflections on Nine Grantmaking Programs" published in 1999.
http://www.giarts.org/library/library_show.htm?doc_id=292199
Smart Money
The Stanford Social Innovation Review published this article showing that "general operating grants can be strategic-for nonprofits and foundations".
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/smart_money
The California Wellness Foundation
These "Grantmakers for a Healthier California" have published Reflections on Sustainability, a great resource for operational support.
http://www.tcwf.org/pub_reflections/feb_2002.htm
Guidelines for the Funding of Nonprofit Organizations
This is a section of the Independent Sector's information on Accountability.
http://www.independentsector.org/issues/buildingvalue/opsupport.html
The Case for Nonprofit Infrastructure
Why Every Foundation Should Fund Infrastructure is one of the many articles in this special edition of The Nonprofit Quarterly. To view the article and the rest of the issue, follow the link below and register for free on the site.
http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/content/view/316/28
In Search of Impact
Published by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, In Search of Impact focuses on the "practices and perceptions in foundation's provisions of program and operating grants to nonprofits".
http://www.effectivephilanthropy.org/research/support.html
Core Support
The F.B. Heron Foundation focuses on the importance of core support.
http://www.fbheron.org/documents/ar.2005.viewbook_core_support.pdf
Institue for Nonprofit Organization Management
As part of the California Foundation Studies, this college at the University of San Francisco published General Operating Support: Research on Grantmaker Policies and Practices.
http://www.inom.org/research/Fnd_General_Operating_Support.pdf
For Additional Resources, please see the Operating Support section of the Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington website:
