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

Amy Ward

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

Kate Cassidy

For Additional Resources, please see the Operating Support section of the Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington website: