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Grantee Network

Great Bay understands it takes more than money to help entrepreneurs working in this uniquely social vein. The foundation believes that it is important to support its grantees’ energy by providing intellectual capital – strategic business principles that help entrepreneurs to leverage innovation – access to community resources, and a dynamic grantee network.

Great Bay has, in addition to its large Annual Conference, bi-monthly luncheons where we feature on-site presentations by grantees for other grantees (past, present and potential future), and bi-monthly Roundtable luncheons where small groups (grantees and outside experts) discuss issues such as "Board of Directors' Matters" which are of concern to all. These meetings are by invitation only and the entire cost is borne by the foundation.

Then, too, Great Bay has a tradition of inviting potential grantees, other foundation officers, social enterprise gurus, business and financial experts, and just plain interesting people to attend our forums where they are encouraged to share their experience, insights, and wisdom with our grantees. We are delighted to have this opportunity to extend those resources to a broader online network so that others might learn from our experience and so that members of this virtual network might contribute new insights to our network. We will be posting updated information about all of these forums - past, present and future - and new "friends of the foundation" videos here regularly. 

Harold Siefken, Executive Director of the Group Home Foundation