Strategies to Achieve Social Impact
TCC Group Strategy Programs/Grants Management Capacity Building Evaluation

At TCC Group, we are passionate about helping the social sector achieve greater impact. Since 1980, we have developed strategies and programs that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of foundations, nonprofits, corporate community involvement programs, and government agencies. From offices in New York City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, we work with diverse clients – from large funders and nonprofits to smaller organizations that want to tap our knowledge to determine pragmatic ways to solve everyday problems.

Our consulting staff are excellent strategists, program developers, capacity builders, and evaluators. We have wide-ranging expertise and on-the-ground experience in fields such as education, arts and culture, community and economic development, human services, environmental conservation, and health care. We are critical thinkers, effective communicators, and skilled facilitators.

TCC Group is known for innovation and rigor. We offer hands-on support designing and implementing solutions that combine objectivity with enthusiasm, direction with responsiveness, and discipline with flexibility. Our unique strength lies in the ability to leverage knowledge from our complementary practices, which build on and inform one another. This holistic view informs every project, as we help clients devise strategies, implement plans, evaluate progress and outcomes, and make ongoing improvements.

News

Five Ways to Ensure That Your Strategy Falls Short

Why do so many foundation and nonprofit strategies go amiss? Senior Partner Paul Connolly and Director of Strategy Anne Sherman share their thoughts in SSIR's Opinion blog.
Learning in Public

In response to growing demand for information from the nonprofit capacity-building field, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation launched the OE Goldmine Research Project to collect, organize, and analyze data from its Organizational Effectiveness Program. TCC Group's evaluation team was engaged to examine a number of key organizational effectiveness questions and then using an innovative "learning in public" approach to further refine findings and disseminate key learnings. In the spirit of that approach, we're sharing our findings.

What Is Good Governance?

TCC Group President and CEO Richard Mittenthal weighs in on Good Governance. Read his thoughts from a recent speech at New York University's Heyman Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising.

Driving Strategy for Social Impact

Building Nonprofit Capacity: Strategic Tools for Managing Change In our new paper, Driving Strategy for Social Impact, authors Anne Sherman and Paul Connolly offer frameworks and advice to help guide nonprofits and funders through a strategy process. An effective strategy provides leaders with criteria for making important decisions and increasing the overall quality of their work.
Building Nonprofit Capacity: Strategic Tools for Managing Change

Building Nonprofit Capacity: Strategic Tools for Managing Change TCC Director of Strategy Anne Sherman and coauthor John Brothers provide nonprofit leaders with the information and tools they need to determine how to effectively shepherd a change process within their organizations. Now available on Amazon.com, Building Nonprofit Capacity is a highly accessible guide for nonprofit professionals who want to focus capacity-building efforts on the areas that will yield the greatest impact. Order a copy here.
The Best of the Humanistic And Technocratic: Why The Most Effective Work In Philanthropy Requires A Balance

Senior Partner and Chief Client Services Officer Paul Connolly highlights the need for a blended strategy in the latest edition of the Foundation Review.

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WHAT DOES CODESIGN OF CAPACITY BUILDING FOR ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS REALLY MEAN?

In a guest blog for Advocacy Digest, Associate Director Susan Misra asks, "When you're leading a capacity-building initiative, are you willing to listen to other viewpoints, incorporate them into decisions, and even change course mid-stream?"
WHY GRANTMAKERS MUST LEAD WITH THEIR HEARTS AS WELL AS THEIR HEADS

In The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Senior Partner Paul Connolly shares how philanthropy could benefit from the creative tension found when blending the objective, proactive, and accountability-oriented technocratic model with the passion-driven, opportunistic, and learning-oriented humanistic approach.
TRAINING FOR NONPROFITS THAT STICKS?

TCC Group Associate Director of Program and Grants Management and Capacity Building, Susan Misra, shares some best practices in capacity building on the SSIR blog Training for Nonprofits That Sticks? Yes, It's Possible! | Opinion Blog | Stanford Social Innovation Review
CAPACITY BUILDING IN CALIFORNIA TO CREATE CHANGE

Lisa Ranghelli, Director of the National Committee for Responsive Philathropy's Grantmaking for Community Impact Project writes about TCC Group's recent capacity building work in California on NCPR's blog.
THE LIMITED RETURNS ON FUNDRAISING SUPPORT FOR NONPROFITS

Senior Partner and Chief Client Services Officer Paul Connolly shares his thoughts about improving fund development capacity based on findings from the the Packard Foundation's new study on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog.

CCAT

Click here for more information on the Core Capacity Assessment Tool, an online assessment tool that allows an organization to analyze its four core capacities, in addition to its organizational culture.

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