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Janet Robinson is New Chair of Carnegie Corporation Board, Kurt Schmoke is New Vice Chair; The Honorable Ann Claire Williams and John S. Hendricks Join Board

Release Date: 
03/01/2012
... include co-founding Minority Legal Education Resources , which has helped more than 4,000 lawyers pass the ... of the Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership, a nonprofit dedicated to using the power of...
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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Four Essentials for Evaluation

Publication date: 
06/2012
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations created this guide to help grantmakers get to the next level in their evaluation efforts and embed evaluation practices more deeply in the work of their organizations. GEO pinpoints four essential steps —Lead, Plan, Organize and Share— and includes the stories of 13 GEO members who have demonstrated effective evaluation in action.
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Evaluation
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Funding Community Organizing: Social Change Through Civic Participation

Publication date: 
11/2008
Grantmakers who fund community organizing say it's the best option when you want to promote civic engagement and support lasting solutions to a community's problems. Yet many funders, concerned about the ability to measure its impact and effectiveness, hesitate to take up community organizing as a strategy. In this guide, funders and organizers discuss what makes community organizing unique and uniquely effective, how to manage grantee relationships over time, understanding the value of process, and the grantmaker's special role in fostering change.
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Community Development
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