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Blueprint Research & Design, Inc. helps grantmaking foundations, individual and family donors, and philanthropic networks to achieve their missions.

Our services and products fall into three interrelated categories:

Our clients turn to us for:

  • Top quality, independent research on social issues
  • Program and strategy development to achieve their missions
  • Custom evaluation designs that improve their work and fit their budgets
  • Practical knowledge about trends in philanthropy

Our work results in:

  • Effective giving strategies
  • Useful ways of measuring progress
  • Strong partnerships between grantmakers and across sectors
  • Private action for the public good

We believe that philanthropy is a critical part of our global society and that research and systems thinking help individual organizations best achieve their goals. We develop philanthropic strategies that capitalize on strengths, maximize partnership opportunities, contribute to public understanding, and make a positive difference.



Read Back to the future, Lucy Bernholz's latest article in Alliance Magazine.



Read Blueprint’s latest Future Matters reports supported by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the Ford Foundation. “Community Foundations and Social Enterprise” looks at the many ways community foundations are supporting social enterprise development in their communities.“Communities on the Move: Community Philanthropy, Immigrants and Giving” looks at the many ways community foundations are working with immigrant communities.



Read (and subscribe to) Philanthropy2173, Lucy Bernholz's blog on the business of giving. Named a "best blog" by Fast Company Magazine.


Creating Philanthropic
Capital Markets
by Lucy Bernholz

New York:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004
ISBN: 0-471-44852-4
Hardcover 288 pages US $45.00
Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets
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