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An article for Effect, the journal of the European Foundation Centre, on impact assessment by Lisa Jordan and Barry Knight – as a follow-up to their presentation at the EFC Conference in 2010. The Essentials of Impact Assessment.pdf
An excellent post on the Bernard van Leer Foundation website by Lisa Jordan on changing how the foundation is thinking about evaluation.
In a piece featured on the Huffington Post blog and as an Opinion in The Chronicle of Philanthropy (both of which are attached), Mark Rosenman calls for charity and foundation leaders to challenge the greed for money and power that corrupts US democracy, serves economic elites while diminishing and denying the rest of society, and…
The Global Fund for Community Foundations launched a new report on the state of the global community foundation field. The report, “More than the Poor Cousin?”(attached) draws on data collected through the GFCF’s grantmaking processes and sets out to argue that community foundations may be a missing piece in the international development jigsaw. Join the…
Paper by Barry Knight given out at the EFC conference in 2010. Evaluating Philanthropy.doc
Click here to read a blog post by Andrew Milner (on the Alliance blog) about a session at the 2010 EFC conference on impact evaluation.
More than the Poor Cousin: Community Foundations as a New Development Paradigm by Jenny Hodgson and Barry Knight – from the Global Fund for Community Foundations MORE_THAN_THE_POOR_COUSIN_.pdf
The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace takes an unapologetically normative approach to the question, “What is good social justice philanthropy?” Here we describe the values and practices we believe are imperative for social justice grantmaking. Our aim is not to cut off debate but to encourage it, to create a space…
Albert Ruesga and Deborah Pultenney 2010 Summary Considers social justice philanthropy as constituting a family of approaches. In describing what they do and why they do it, social justice grantmakers tend to appeal to one or more of these approaches or ‘traditions’ and the authors go on to list eight of them. They warn that…
Lori Villarosa from the Philanthropic for Racial Equity passed this along. A Beginning Dialogue. Marking Progress: Movement Toward Racial Justice highlights some of the framing issues key advocates, researchers and practitioners raise as they ask themselves what needs to be considered in measuring progress against structural racism. This short document sets the stage for PRE’s…