Sample Grant 1
Institute for Not-for-Profit Management - $67,700 since 2002
The Institute for Not-for-Profit Management (INM) is part of the Columbia Business School Executive Education Programs and was formed to build the managerial capacity of nonprofit organizations. Through intensive, graduate-level programs, participants study core management disciplines tailored to the nonprofit sector. INM’s programs emphasize the importance of deploying resources strategically to fulfill the organization’s mission and meet its goals.
The Rauch Foundation provides annual grants as scholarship support for Long Island nonprofit professionals to attend the Institute for Nor-for-Profit Management. The foundation believes that the nonprofit sector can only flourish if there is leadership in place that can effectively manage the limited resources available in meeting the needs of their constituents in a competitive environment. Since 2002 the Foundation has helped over 30 nonprofit professionals advance their skills through attendance at one of the INM programs.
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Sample Grant 2
Long Island Mayor’s Institute - $50,000
Regional Plan Association (RPA) is an independent, not-for-profit regional planning organization that improves the quality of life and the economic competitiveness of the 31-county New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region through research, planning, and advocacy. One aspect of their work uses design studies to enable communities to understand the consequences of planning policy, and to articulate their own vision for how their communities should grow. In this way it is possible to link locally-based “place making” with a regional smart growth agenda.
This Rauch Foundation grant enabled RPA, in collaboration with Long Island partners to provide a two-day design institute for several Long Island mayors and town supervisors. The Institute paired these elected officials with a resource team of planners, designers, architects and academics to tackle specific growth and development issues in each official’s municipality. Modeled on the national program run by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Long Island Mayors' Institute provided a retreat as well as instruction and coaching for local officials to inspire them to bring new ideas back to their communities and to find new ways to work together as Long Island leaders.
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