TEN YEARS GRANTMAKING – WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?Jon Blyth of the Mott Foundation is one of those individuals described by Helena Ackerman as having become "institutions in their own right in this region". Alliance asked him if he had any tips he would want to pass on others considering grantmaking in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. This is what he came up with. We’ve found that most principles for good grant-making that apply to our domestic operations make sense for CEE and Russia too. But there are some important differences.