Keeping What Counts: Should Limited-life Foundations Create Archives?
A new essay examines what foundations leave behind when they close, and the benefits and challenges of establishing various types of archives.
Effectiveness
Effectiveness
Working with Consultants Series
This collection of resources can help any nonprofit or grantmaker engage the right consultant to match its need, budget, and work style.
Capital Grants, Effectiveness
Building Impact: Tools for Making Good Capital Grants
New tools equip grantmakers to avoid pitfalls and help nonprofits achieve the full potential that is inherent in new buildings and renovations.
Evaluation, Effectiveness
Re-imagining Measurement in Philanthropy
A new study from the Monitor Institute by Deloitte explores possibilities for the future of monitoring, evaluation, and learning in philanthropy.
Evaluation, Effectiveness
Environmental Education Better Results Toolkit
The Foundation partnered with Learning for Action to develop tools and techniques for data-driven program improvement.
Exits, Effectiveness
Learning How to Exit: New Resources for Philanthropy
The Foundation is helping bring forward lessons and tools that can inform others who are spending down assets and ending initiatives.
Effectiveness
The Future of Measurement: Using Data and Learning for Greater Good
The Foundation is joining with others across the nonprofit sector to reimagine measurement as a tool for increased effectiveness and impact.
Resiliency, Effectiveness
Preparing for the Future at Sustainable Conservation
This nonprofit explored and pursued opportunities to strengthen resiliency as a part of an overall commitment to capacity building.
Foundation, Resiliency, President's Updates
Resiliency: Why It Matters, How Nonprofits and Funders Can Build It
Lauren B. Dachs writes about the Foundation’s commitment to building organizational capacity.