Podcasts

Corporate Signature Programs

Tom Knowlton, Vice President and Director, TCC Group
Dee Lee, Senior Vice President, Outcome Grants Manager, Wachovia

Dee Lee and Tom Knowlton discuss corporate signature programs. Dee outlines the process and criteria Wachovia used to create the Teachers and Teaching Initiative, as well as the benefits and drivers for developing their signature program.

Corporations – Going Beyond Grantmaking for Greater Impact

Janice Brown, Senior Consultant, TCC Group
Nina Hanlon, Analyst, TCC Group

Janice Brown and Nina Hanlon discuss how corporations can do "value-added grantmaking" to build deeper relationships with targeted sets of grantees in order to overcome cynicism, create good will ambassadors, and ultimately achieve greater outcomes for the nonprofit community and the company.

Cultural Competency

Susan Misra, Senior Consultant, TCC Group
Jennifer Avers, Consultant, TCC Group
Ana Ramos-Hernandez, Consultant, TCC Group

Susan Misra, Jennifer Avers and Ana Ramos-Hernandez discuss TCC Group's experience with — and development of — culturally competent consulting practices. Jennifer Avers and Ana Ramos-Hernandez begin by discussing two examples that illustrate how both clients and consulting firms seek to be culturally competent. Susan Misra concludes by discussing how TCC Group's Cultural Competency Task Force is responding to the growing demand for culturally competent consultants.

Evaluating Organizational Capacity of Policy and Advocacy Organization

Jared Raynor, Senior Consultant TCC Group
Astrid Hendricks, Ed.D, Director, Evaluation and Barbara Masters, M.A., Public Policy Director, The California Endowment

Advocacy as a strategy for the nonprofit sector has become increasingly widespread. Foundations are looking to fund more of this type of work; nonprofits are learning how to harness its power toward better achieving their mission; and both are trying to better understand how to evaluate success. As the strategy of advocacy has grown, organizations have learned important advocacy skills. But, what does it mean to be an effective advocacy organization? What capacities are important for putting into practice advocacy strategies? How can organizations (and funders) ensure they have the capacity for doing advocacy work?

Barbara Masters, Astrid Hendricks, and Jared Raynor briefly examine some of these issues.

Strategic Philanthropy: Maximizing Family Engagement and Social Impact

Ashley Blanchard, Senior Consultant, TCC Group
Carol Gallo, Senior Consultant, TCC Group

As TCC Group broadens its work with family foundations, the firm has come to understand the unique value that a more strategic approach can bring to family philanthropy. Ashley Blanchard and Carol Gallo discuss why family foundations may want to be more strategic in their giving, and how they can transition from giving that's driven by trustees' individual interests to giving that's based on shared values and priorities.

Transformational Strategic Planning

Shelly Kessler, Vice President and Director, TCC Group
Kevin Mestrich, former Executive Director, Maryknoll Lay Missioners and current Executive Director, Hartley House

Kevin Mestrich and Shelly Kessler discuss how to engage and implement in a transformational strategic planning process.