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Attached is the new McKinsey Report on a project to identify best practices for social impact assessment and philanthropy’s role in it – based on partnerships with 13 leading foundations and more than 100 thought leaders from nonprofits, academic institutions and beyond. Additional materials, including a workbook for program officers and other practitioners, are available…
Attached are materials from the Council on Foundations Convention’s Social Justice Track: Ruesga, G.A. and Puntenney, D. (March 2010). Social Justice Philanthropy: An Initial Framework for Positioning this Work. Working Group for Social Justice & Peace. Kirsty and the Evaluators: Getting a Grip on Evaluation. Working Group for Social Justice & Peace. Evaluation Frameworks for…
A blog post by Tactical Philanthropy Advisors about the Knight Foundation’s use of investigative journalists to assess impact.
Attached is the report done by the Philanthropic Initiative on Racial Equity and the Applied Research Center on a racial justice assessment they did of the Barr Foundation and the Consumer Health Foundation. You can find additional information here. Racial_justice_assessment.pdf
The Victim Empowerment and Peacebuilding report is a product of the Foundations for Peace Network and was developed to further a strategic FFP goal which is to ‘share models of good practice in various aspects of peacebuilding work’. The Network members work in regions of conflict and felt it important to share and learn from…
The Ford Foundation worked with a consultant on a project about engaging about the issue of structural racism with Community Action Agencies, community foundations, civic groups and others around the country. The resulting report (attached) is for the philanthropic sector on how various organizations have introduced and carried out work of breaking down racial barriers.…
Caring to Change sought new notions about how grantmaking might better serve a foundation’s mission while holding even broader benefit – helping it to be more effective at creating a better world. Building on the commentary and ideas of both foundation leaders and of those not often involved fully in setting strategy, particularly younger staff…
Interesting article about shifting foundation practices to use network approach: click here.
Interesting article about shifting foundation practices to use network approach: click here.
A very interesting blog post by Albert Ruesga, from the Second Line Blog (of the Greater New Orleans Foundation). Click here to read it.