Webinar Explores the Casey Foundation’s Strategic Coinvestor Approach to Community Change March 28, 2021 By Claire Schultz View a webinar recording about the Casey Foundation’s strategic coinvestor grantmaking approach to support local partnerships in three high-poverty neighborhoods as they developed a more integrated set of services to help parents and children succeed together in what is known as a two-generation approach.
Will foundations’ next crisis response be déjà vu all over again? March 25, 2021 By Claire Schultz In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and national movement against police brutality and racism, the philanthropy sector appears motivated to embrace new approaches to transformational change—and yet is also moving cautiously and at times hesitantly toward undertaking the types of fundamental institutional realignment approaches that will deliver real systemic equity and justice.
The Evaluator as Facilitator: Considerations for Good Facilitation Practice February 10, 2021 By Claire Schultz TCC Group Evaluation Consultant Ijeoma Ezeofor shares a list of best practices and resources for evaluators looking to improve their facilitation skills.
A Nonprofit Balancing Act: The Precipice or Solid Ground? November 11, 2020 By Claire Schultz The crisis facing the nonprofit sector in 2020 and beyond has prompted funders to think critically about how to better support the full cost of service delivery, and more effectively deploy financial capital to build strong and resilient organizations.
Leading with Values: How Communicating Your Organization’s Values Will Help You Live Them October 27, 2020 By Claire Schultz Within the social sector, nonprofit and philanthropic leaders should live and model their organizational values, using them to guide their organization; they must be communicated clearly, credibly, and consistently to all stakeholders, both within and outside the organization.
To Convene or Not Convene? Why COVID May Be Among the Least Important of Your Deciding Factors September 23, 2020 By Claire Schultz Before thinking through your next convening, there’s a fundamental question that needs to be answered: Should you be convening to begin with?
Strengthening Nonprofits in the Time of COVID-19: Part One August 27, 2020 By Claire Schultz Part one of our three-part series focuses on the ways grantees must prioritize strength-building to remain resilient and sustainable.
Lessons From Casey’s Strategic Coinvestor Approach to Community Change August 19, 2020 By Claire Schultz A two-page infographic describes the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s strategic coinvesting approach to joining local partnerships in three communities through its Family-Centered Community Change™ (FCCC) initiative.
Support Black Artists: A Call to Funders July 6, 2020 By Claire Schultz (Photo credit: AP/Brynn Anderson) As we watch the removal and destruction of monuments that reflect the pain felt by so many people around this country, funders of the arts have an opportunity to galvanize the creation of new public displays that call out the portrayal of racism embedded in our history, system, and values.
Work in Progress: How One Consulting Firm Is Helping Funders Adapt in an Evolving Sector May 11, 2020 By Claire Schultz Inside Philanthropy names TCC Group as “one prominent consultancy worth keeping tabs on,” spotlights our values-based equity work, and underscores our “dedication to a set of values: diversity of perspective, organizational effectiveness and equitable social change.”
COVID-19: Questions Nonprofit Leaders Should Be Asking Right Now April 7, 2020 By Claire Schultz In times of crisis, taking a moment to quickly assess and clarify core strategies can help your organization respond nimbly and effectively.
Be Adaptive: Using Information to Adapt Programming (Stage 3) January 9, 2020 By Claire Schultz Part three of our four-part series on media evaluation examines distributing the content of a media campaign and how to track effectiveness.
Equity as Tokenism April 4, 2019 By Claire Schultz How does an evaluator navigate a situation where they are asked to favor certain staff over others because of their identity?
Equity as a Point of Tension March 25, 2019 By Claire Schultz How does an evaluator raise issues related to equity that are influencing the work when key players do not have an equity lens?
Equity as an Afterthought March 11, 2019 By Claire Schultz How does an evaluator focus on equity when it has been added as a new outcome years after an initiative has been in place?