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Effectiveness

Helping Colleagues Do More. Helping Philanthropy Do Better.

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?

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

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.

Water, Environment

Tools to advance water trading in a new era of sustainable groundwater management

Tools to advance water trading in a new era of sustainable groundwater management

Environmental Defense Fund partnered with water managers and landowners in the Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District to create the first open-source water accounting and trading platform in California’s Central Valley.

Water, Environment

Filling the Biggest Data Gap in Water Management

Filling the Biggest Data Gap in Water Management

A Foundation-supported partnership including NASA, Google, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Desert Research Institute announces a web application to transform water management in the American West.

Features, Resiliency, Effectiveness

Growing Resiliency: Turbulent Times Call for Dialogue Between Funders and Nonprofits

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

Resilience at Work

Timely independent research addresses how nonprofits adapt to disruption – and ways that funders can help.

Effectiveness

Working with Consultants Series

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

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

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.