Sooner Rather Than Later
Laurie Dachs offers concluding reflections on the Foundation and its spend down.
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Effectiveness
Helping Colleagues Do More. Helping Philanthropy Do Better.
Barbara Kibbe offers concluding reflections on the Foundation’s Effectiveness work.
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.
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.
Education, Character
Supporting the Youth Development Workforce
Rebecca Goldberg and Alex Hooker contribute strategies and perspectives to the Journal of Youth Development.
Foundation, Features, President's Updates
President’s Update: Spring 2020
Lauren B. Dachs writes about the Foundation’s response to COVID-19 in context of its concluding year.
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.