Can community foundations learn, if given the opportunity, to be effective vehicles for channeling support to low-income neighborhood organizations while increasing their own resources, grantmaking skills, and leadership role in the community? That was the question […]
“In human society, relationships act as a basic infrastructure, providing an underlying framework for getting things done.” This is one of the key insights of Betty Emarita, of Training and Development Resources, as part of […]
If a nonprofit organization is to become increasingly effective in pursuing its mission, it must get stronger in all the essential areas of nonprofit performance, not just program activities. I made this point recently by […]
Editor’s note: Some of you may not have been around when Classic White Wonder Bread was almost all there was in the bakery section of your store. Its slogan at the time was “Helps build […]
We need nonprofit organizations to be strong if they’re to make progress against their missions. Organizational strength, aka “organizational capacity,” doesn’t just happen by itself. It has to be developed, or built. The National Council […]
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” […]
Philanthropy could make greater gains in racial equity and social justice if it pursued these six field-tested pathways to progress. […]
Is traditional social science the only way to learn about a nonprofit’s program effectiveness? No. Many nonprofits conduct activities and programs that are subtle and complex, deserving an approach to evaluation that honors that complexity. […]
If there really were a growing trend of cooperation between grantmakers and nonprofits, what would we notice? A partial list includes:
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As evaluators, we are always making choices. These choices may not always be apparent at the time one makes them. We may not even have made them consciously. But in retrospect – and retrospect provides […]
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