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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Use Advocacy To Promote Social Change

November 18, 2020 Steve Mayer

What is “advocacy”?  The word is from Latin, meaning “to give voice” to a cause that it might progress and succeed.  Advocacy has recently become a legitimate strategy to promote social change.  What is advocacy, […]

Indicators of freedom
SOCIAL JUSTICE

Indicators of Freedom From The Film, “12 Years a Slave”

November 12, 2020 Steve Mayer

I went to see “12 Years a Slave” the other night, but was a little apprehensive about going, given what I’d heard.  To keep it together I decided to write down all the indicators of […]

Institutionalized racism
SOCIAL JUSTICE

Institutional Racism: It’s Hard To See Racism When You’re White

November 11, 2020 Steve Mayer

“It’s hard to see racism when you’re White,” the billboards erected by Duluth’s [former] Un-Fair Campaign allege.   The billboard conveys the message very directly of institutional racism.  Enraged Whites, according to an article in the […]

Evidence of success
NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT

Evidence of Success: Follow the Action

November 11, 2020 Steve Mayer

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, […]

Social justice requires non-discrimination
EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY

Can Philanthropy Create Greater Racial Equity and Social Justice?

November 10, 2020 Steve Mayer

Can philanthropy create greater racial equity and social justice?  Good question.  And the answer is Yes, we learned in a five-year inquiry with support from the Ford Foundation.  What does philanthropy do to make progress […]

Community foundations
NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT

As Seen on TV – Building Community Capacity: The Potential of Community Foundations

November 10, 2020 Steve Mayer

As seen on TV!  Download free, the editors cut of my 1994 classic, “Building Community Capacity: The Potential of Community Foundations.” This easy-reading book relates the successful experience of 17 community foundations participating in the […]

Institutional philanthropy
NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT

Downsides to Philanthropy: The Way We Think About Charity Is Dead Wrong

November 5, 2020 Steve Mayer

There are downsides to philanthropy as well as its well-publicized upsides.  Philanthropy has a Jekyll and Hyde approach to benefiting communities and society: talking big but releasing only a trickle of cash on terrible terms […]

Making a difference
EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY

Effective Philanthropy: Make a Difference

November 4, 2020 Steve Mayer

  Is my philanthropy effective?  Am I “making a difference?”  When I see a panhandler on the street, I can imagine different ways to “make a difference.” Make a difference at the individual level I […]

Philanthropy, Justice, and Evaluation
JUST PHILANTHROPY

The Confluence of “Philanthropy, Justice, and Evaluation”

November 4, 2020 Steve Mayer

For years, my blog, “JustPhilanthropy.org” ran with the tagline: “From the confluence of philanthropy, justice, and evaluation.” Where is that place? I imagine like one of those braided Alaska rivers with crisscrossing streams – the […]

PROGRAM EVALUATION

Problems With Using A Single Measure of Success

November 4, 2020 Steve Mayer

There’s a problem with using a single measure of success.   It may seem simple, but a single measure of a charitable organization’s productivity, no matter how common-sensible, isn’t nearly enough to convey all that’s important. […]

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