Grantmaking is a partnership, and you can’t know how effective a partnership is if you aren’t taking active steps to understand your partner’s experiences and needs. To optimize your grantmaking practices, it’s essential that you solicit direct, confidential feedback from your grantees, and then act on it as transparently as possible.

Not only does this process improve your methods, it builds respect and equity, and therefore stronger relationships. That’s what Narrow the Power Gap, one of the Principles for Peak Grantmaking, is all about.