Using Rapid Cycle Learning to Infuse a Culture of Continuous Learning September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin How do we go about setting and answering key learning questions that will both build real-time evaluation capacity and feed into program implementation and outcomes achievement? Rapid cycle learning (RCL) has been used in places as varied as the military, the private sector, emergency response, and healthcare. As evaluators, we can use RCL to institutionalize … Continued
Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network: Building Supportive Professional Relationships September 27, 2017 By Lindsay Emery Join us for a conversation with panelists from different philanthropic backgrounds about their experience cultivating and maintaining strong professional relationships, which range from formal and informal mentorships, to peer networks and affinity groups, and the many other shapes that professional support takes. We will allocate time at the end for small group discussion and individual … Continued
Employee Engagement: Aligning Corporate and Social Purpose September 27, 2017 By Lindsay Emery CSR 4.0 presents the evolution of corporate social responsibility from its initial shared value paradigm to its current form. The program will track the growth of CSR as a sector, examine the multi-dimensional ways that CSR programs are implemented in corporations today, and present cutting-edge ideas that will shape the future of CSR as an … Continued
Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility Measurement and Evaluation September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin The Institute for CSR is a professional certificate program designed specifically for CSR practitioners. This year’s class includes CSR professionals, and the curriculum is designed to be very interactive and practical while also inspiring and challenging students to approach their work in CSR in new ways. Presenters Jared Raynor, Director, Evaluation, TCC Group Lisa Frantzen, … Continued
2017 American Evaluation Association Annual International Conference September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin Wednesday, November 8 6:15-7:15pm: OL-ECB8: Evaluation Capacity Building Across Partnerships Public media is very good at telling stories. However, with the exception of large funded government programs, it struggles to tell its own story. Tradition would say that public media has had impact in the communities it serves, but until recently, beyond counting audience members, … Continued
Funding Is Not Enough: Building the Supply Side of the Capacity Building Ecosystem September 27, 2017 By Lindsay Emery Through its Capacity Building 3.0 framework, TCC Group has partnered with dozens of foundations, nonprofits, government agencies, corporations, and local capacity builders in regions throughout the U.S. over the past few years, exploring ways they can acknowledge their respective roles in a larger ecosystem of change. This session will focus on the critical role … Continued
Telling Your CSR Impact Story: An Outcomes Framework for a Portfolio of Programs September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin Companies are facing increasing pressure to report on the impact and results of their various corporate citizenship programs, not only to customers and advocacy groups but also to senior leaders and employees. Yet programs focusing on community and social issues may not have a framework that adequately captures and communicates their measures of success. As … Continued
Strengthening Your CSR Impact Story with a Program Outcomes Framework September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin Companies are tackling numerous issues through their corporate citizenship programs, and they often struggle to tell a coherent CSR Impact story about their achievements. In many cases, that story is even more difficult to communicate due to unclear goals and a lack of a strategic approach to capturing the information necessary to tell a CSR … Continued
Communicating Impact: Why We Matter September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin In this session we will learn why the ability to demonstrate our impact in our communities is an increasingly important part of our case for high-level philanthropic support. In this session we will look at a few different, tested approaches for planning and measuring impact. We’ll also explore examples of how to use that information … Continued
It’s Not Just That You Collaborate, It’s The Way You Collaborate September 27, 2017 By Lindsay Emery Come and engage in a dynamic conversation about the ethical principles that should be at the forefront of foundation collaboration! Through peer-to-peer debate and learning, participants will be invited to explore the content of proposed principles and exchange ideas on how they could be applied to advance their own organization’s programming and shared with the … Continued
Stepping Into the Fight: How Health Funders can use Legal Advocacy as a Strategy to Make Change September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin This Quick Take session will introduce participants to advocacy strategies focused on creating change within the legal environment. TCC Group will share recent work, supported by Atlantic Philanthropies, about considerations for using legal advocacy, how it connects with more traditionally funded strategies, and how to evaluate this work. Attorney Judith Stein, of the Center for … Continued
Rapid Cycle Learning: From Program Design to Implementation September 27, 2017 By Lindsay Emery Following four decades of leadership development programming, a major U.S. health foundation made the decision to restructure its well-known leadership development programs. Rather than waiting for program implementation to do evaluation, the Foundation decided to use rapid and intentional iterative learning loops to evaluate the program strategy and design process itself. As the programs began … Continued
Funding to Drive Sustainability and Impact September 27, 2017 By Lindsay Emery Most nonprofits lack the funding and expertise they truly need to support their infrastructure, systems, leadership, and strategy development—the things they need not just to survive, but to thrive. Locally, however, there are new programs and models that provide this critical funding and support, including a County-wide initiative that ties it all together. Join us at this … Continued
Exploring Foundation Capacity: Why Does it Matter and What Do We Know: Preliminary Results from the Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool September 27, 2017 By Lindsay Emery For many years, the social sector has paid substantial attention to the issue of nonprofit effectiveness, and numerous diagnostic tools exist to help nonprofits assess and build their capacity strengths toward these ends. By contrast, comparatively little attention has been paid to the capacities foundations need to achieve impact. What capacities are essential to advancing … Continued
Effectively Supporting Education Through Evaluation and Learning September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin Moving toward equity in education requires a fundamental shift in the way resources are allocated and public policies are made. Investing in advocacy for educational equity can be a powerful funding strategy. However, measuring the impact of advocacy investments can be challenging. Join us for a discussion of how evaluation of advocacy efforts can surface … Continued