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ABOUT THE ALLIANCE Our Mission Our Vision Our Core Values Our Code of Ethics Our History With the assistance of Gid Smith, President of the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, and Harry Shaw, President of United Way of the Mid-South, Ms. Gilliland founded the Grant Information Center in 1992. The Plough Foundation, United Way of the Mid-South, and the Memphis Rotary Club provided initial funding. The Center officially opened on January 6 with two staff members and a board of nineteen community leaders. Originally, the Center offered only information on grant opportunities. Services soon expanded to include training and consulting on the entire grant development and management process, and the name was changed to The Grant Center in 1998. Over time, competition for funding increased dramatically. Funders started looking more closely not only at what an organization did, but how they did it. The Grant Center recognized that many of its members needed to improve their performance to compete successfully for national funding. The Center added resources for organizational development, and launched the Program for Nonprofit Excellence in 2003. In 2005, The Grant Center adopted its new mission statement: to strengthen organizations that meet community needs. The board voted in early 2006 to change the name to the Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence to reflect the new mission. In addition to its role in grant seeking, the Alliance assists in building high performing organizations that have a significant impact on the community. Over the past seventeen years, the Alliance has helped local organizations to secure more than $170 million in national funding. For each dollar of local support the Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence receives, it generates an average of $30 for the community.
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5100 Poplar Ave., Suite 502 , Memphis, TN 38137 • Phone 901.684.6605 • Fax 901.684.6616 • info@npexcellence.org