Helping Colleagues Do More. Helping Philanthropy Do Better.
Barbara Kibbe offers concluding reflections on the Foundation’s Effectiveness work.
Effectiveness
Resiliency, Effectiveness
Resilience in 2020: What Does It Take?
New research examines how nonprofits have experienced the crises of 2020 – and what this tells us about organizational resilience.
Effectiveness
Advancing Equity Through Consulting Partnerships
New resources offer guidance for funders and nonprofits on partnering with consultants in equitable ways, and engaging equity consultants successfully.
Education, Character, Evaluation, Effectiveness
Using Data to Strengthen Out-of-School Time Programs
Just released! A new book, Measure, Use, Improve! Data Use in Out-of-School Time, provides practical insights about how to use data to improve practice in youth-serving organizations.
Evaluation, Effectiveness
Transforming Evaluation Practice Together
New resources, co-designed by funders and evaluators, take on urgent issues facing the field of philanthropic evaluation and offer actionable solutions for improving practice.
Effectiveness
Special Grantmaking: A Purposeful, Flexible Resource for Foundations
Matthew La Rocque and Barbara Kibbe describe the many uses and benefits, as well as ways to address potential challenges, associated with special grant funds.
Features, Resiliency, Effectiveness
Growing Resiliency: Turbulent Times Call for Dialogue Between Funders and Nonprofits
An updated Resiliency Guide helps funders and grantees consider the complex environments nonprofits operate in, and explore ways to enhance their ability to adapt to shocks and disruptors.
Resiliency, Effectiveness
Resilience at Work
Timely independent research addresses how nonprofits adapt to disruption – and ways that funders can help.
Evaluation, Effectiveness
Strategy and Evaluation: The Twin Engines of Effective Philanthropy
Barbara Kibbe writes about how the language, tools, and approaches of philanthropy have evolved across four decades, and envisions the future of practice.
Evaluation, Effectiveness
Toward Equity: Evaluation is Not Neutral
The Foundation supports the Equitable Evaluation Initiative, a field-wide effort to advance equity through evaluation.