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SOCIAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
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Since I made such a big thing about dignity in my last post, can we acknowledge something like a “dignity gap?” Not trying to introduce new jargon, but the notion is this: We’re familiar with [...]
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
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Early in my professional life, the Dayton Hudson Foundation (predecessor to Target Foundation) came to me with this challenging opportunity. “Forty percent of our grantmaking budget is now dedicated to what we’re calling ‘Social Action.’ [...]
PROGRAM EVALUATION DEPARTMENT
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There seems to be an obsession in philanthropy these days with “data driven decision making.” There is no argument in philanthropy less productive than the supposed fight between strategic vs. compassionate grantmaking. It’s the “versus” [...]
NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
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In Effective Philanthropy: Make a Difference we made the point that different programs focus their action differently. Some want to create change at the individual level. Others want to create change at the system level, [...]