How Foundations Use Communications to Advance Their Public Policy Work
Publication date:
05/2010
... policy engagement for the foundations interviewed, which make use of ten distinctly different strategies to boost ...
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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.
Learning Together: Collaborative Inquiry among Grantmakers and Grantees
... field of practice. It's a worthy endeavor, but how can you make it happen in the real world? This guide explores an .....
Mapping Change: Using a Theory of Change to Guide Planning and Evaluation
" What are we doing, and why do we think it's going to make a difference? Are we being effective?" Grantmakers ask .....
Grantees Report Back: Helpful Reporting and Evaluation Processes
Publication date:
01/2011
Foundations often use grantee reporting and evaluation processes to gauge the effectiveness of their work. At the same time, many funders seek to simplify reporting and evaluation processes for grantees so that these nonprofits can spend more time doing their work. How do grantees experience reporting and evaluation processes? What makes them most helpful? How can foundations improve them?
Lessons from the Field: From Understanding to Impact
Publication date:
12/2010
... Foundation, and the Wilburforce Foundation — seek to make an impact on some of the most complicated challenges we ...
Laurie Tisch Illumination Fund Launches $15 Million Healthy Foods Initiative
Release Date:
02/15/2013
The five-year Healthy Food & Community Change initiative will work to improve access to healthy foods for people in low-income neighborhoods.
Among Young Inheritors, an Urge to Redistribute
Release Date:
03/25/2013
... take a trip or two. It would be blissful, and it would make their lives easier.... Among Young Inheritors, an Urge ...
How to Build Strong Ties With Companies
Release Date:
10/08/2013
... in a Chronicle Live Discussion on how nonprofits can make themselves more attractive to a corporate benefactor. ...
Live From Independent Sector Conference: Innovation Coming Faster, Needs Collaboration
Release Date:
09/30/2013
... partners, often opposites who get together and then make change happen. Musician Wynton Marsalis said change ...
How to Determine If a Charity Is Effective
Release Date:
11/10/2013
... evaluating charity effectiveness. Do you want to really make a difference? Then don't commit your money, especially a .....
New Breed of CEOs Is Poised to Reshape Philanthropy in 2014
Release Date:
01/13/2014
Ford Foundation President Darren Walker is among the "new era of foundation leaders" profiled in this Chronicle of Philanthropy article.
Simplify: A New Data-Sharing Process for Funders & Grantees
Publication date:
01/2014
Simplify is a data-sharing and standards-setting process that eliminates the repetitive elements of grant applications.
Foundation Assets Are Climbing, but Grants Are Still Competitive
Publication date:
03/2014
A skyrocketing stock market helped boost the assets of the Gates, Hewlett, and other big foundations last year to their highest levels since the Great Recession gutted endowments six years ago, according to a new Chronicle survey.
Wellspring Advisors Program Director Andrew Park Heads to The Williams Institute
Release Date:
06/13/2014
The Williams Institute announced Andrew Park is its new International Program Director. Previously, Andrew served as Program Director at Wellspring Advisors, LLC, where he managed domestic and international grant-making programs in the fields of...
PG&E Donates and Matches Employee Donations to American Red Cross for California Wildfire Relief
Release Date:
09/18/2015
Pacific Gas and Electric Company will match up to $100,000 in employee donations.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Brings Hope to Ancient Athens Neighborhood
Release Date:
07/06/2016
Hopes for improvement lie with the nearby Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, named after a Greek shipping magnate who died in 1996.
Purse-String Powerhouses: Meet the 9 PNY Members on the Top 10 NYC Do-Gooders List
Release Date:
11/04/2016
... Center. But who cuts the checks and how do they make their decisions? The 10 leaders of charitable ...
Ford Is One of 46 Foundations Contributing to Movement That Helps Ex-Cons Turn Their Lives Around
Release Date:
11/14/2016
So far, 47 foundations including the Ford Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and others have joined corporations like Starbucks, Facebook and Target in giving ex-cons a better chance at making something of...
Traub-Dicker Rainbow Announces Scholarship for LGBTQ Women-Identified Students
Release Date:
03/01/2017
Founded by Peggy Traub and Phyllis Dicker, the Traub-Dicker Rainbow Scholarship is awarded to LGBTQ woman-identified students across the country who demonstrate their dedication to making a difference through their aspirations and actions.