Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff
Publication date:
06/2013
... including five essential areas where program staff can have a positive impact. Working Well With Grantees: A ...
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Learn and Let Learn
Publication date:
10/2012
... publication explores how learning communities can be powerful tools in creating and shaping peer ...
Widespread Empathy: 5 Steps to Achieving Greater Impact in Philanthropy
Publication date:
09/2010
... engagement work to look more deeply at how grantmakers can develop a more thorough, gut-level understanding of ...
Evaluation in Philanthropy: Perspectives from the Field
Publication date:
12/2009
... and the Council on Foundations explore how evaluation can help grantmakers learn and improve practices (not just ...
Benchmarking Foundation Administrative Expenses: Update on How Operating Characteristics Affect Spending
Publication date:
09/2012
... influence charitable administrative expense levels. It can help to inform policy debates and foundation practices. ...
Working Better Together: Building Nonprofit Collaborative Capacity
Publication date:
09/2013
... capacities nonprofits need to collaborate and how funders can help. Working Better Together: Building Nonprofit ...
Disaster Grantmaking: A Practical Guide for Foundations and Corporations
Publication date:
02/2014
... the Council on Foundations highlighting how grantmakers can be more effective and strategic in addressing disasters ...
Consultant & Vendor Lists: Technology Consultants
Publication date:
02/2015
... Exchange MindShift https://www.mindshift.com/Managed-IT- Services /IT-Strategy-and-Consulting Recommending ... for Child Development , Teagle Foundation , New York State Health Foundation Ventucom 110 Wall Street, 11th Floor, ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Deepens Commitment to Moving the World Beyond Coal with Plan to Turbocharge Clean Energy Finance in Global South
Release Date:
11/07/2022
... development that doesn’t get a lot of attention but can mean the difference between investment in coal and clean ... announce the country’s commitment to net-zero by 2060. I ’m excited that through this...
Beyond the Renovation: The Other Exciting Changes at The New York Public Library
Release Date:
06/03/2013
Our recent funder tour of The New York Public Library gave our members a chance to learn more about the upcoming renovations to their historic 42nd Street location. NYPL President and CEO Anthony Marx talks about the other changes taking place —...
Communicating for Impact: Strategies for Grantmakers
Publication date:
11/2009
... lens" to develop strategy, evaluate impact, take advantage of new media technologies, and more. .....
Funding Community Organizing: Social Change Through Civic Participation
Publication date:
11/2008
... to measure its impact and effectiveness, hesitate to take up community organizing as a strategy. In this guide, ...
Lessons from the Field: Becoming Strategic: The Evolution of the Flinn Foundation
Publication date:
03/2009
In 2002, Arizona’s Flinn Foundation began implementing a strategy that focused on boosting its state’s bioscience economy and relied heavily on building collaborative partnerships. Since that time, Arizona has had dramatic increases in jobs, research funding, businesses, and wages within the bioscience sector. This case study illustrates the benefits of taking a strategic approach to maximize a foundation’s impact. It describes how Flinn’s leaders narrowed the Foundation’s focus and assessed its performance.
Media Development In The Developing World
Release Date:
01/04/2013
Since 1996, the Media Development Loan Fund has provided more than $120 million in loans and equity investments to media companies in 26 emerging market countries and independent news outlets in countries with a history of media oppression.
Grantmakers Play an Important Role in Comprehensive Immigration Reform Efforts
Release Date:
02/20/2013
The Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Geri Mannion is quoted in this article examining the work of funders (including the Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation) supporting immigration reform.
Among Young Inheritors, an Urge to Redistribute
Release Date:
03/25/2013
... pay off debt, maybe their mortgage; save for retirement; take a trip or two. It would be blissful, and it would make ...
Underwater Mortgages, Drowning Cities, and Rogue Financiers
Release Date:
08/06/2013
A blog post by Robert C. Hockett, Fellow at The Century Foundation.
A Free Lunch Coalition Tries to Make School Meals a Mayoral Issue
Release Date:
10/17/2013
On the steps of City Hall this morning, an education advocacy group held a rally that had nothing to do with universal pre-kindergarten or charter schools.
Robin Hood Gala Brings in $60-Million for Antipoverty Groups
Release Date:
05/14/2014
... and their families, will get $35-million of Monday’s take . The fundraising total fell from the $80.5-million ...
Target Gives $1 Billion for Education
Release Date:
08/31/2015
... the U.S. and around the world. How’d we get there? Take a look... Target Gives $1 Billion for Education ...