Wednesday, September 9, 2015
New York Community Trust to Collaborate with NCRP's Philamplify to Assess Community Foundations
In preparation, we’ve spent the past ten months adapting our methodology and strategic, social justice criteria to assess community foundations, incorporating input from 20 sector experts and field leaders. Changes include a revamped survey instrument for grantees and new criteria to assess relationships with donors. Furthermore, while we’ll continue to research each foundation’s goals, strategies, outcomes and impact, we’ve expanded our focus beyond grantmaking to more closely analyze each anchor institution’s asset development and public leadership.
As with past Philamplify assessments, we took the same approach for deciding which funders to assess, and chose two of the nation’s largest community foundations: The New York Community Trust and The Oregon Community Foundation. We are thrilled that the executive leadership at both foundations recognize the value of Philamplify and have chosen to collaborate with us....