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
Smarter Grantmaking Starts Here – Session 4 September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin Presenters Barbara Alford, President, Wiregrass Foundation Julie Simpson, Director, Nonprofit Strategy & Capacity Building, TCC Group Host Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Remote Learning Series
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
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
How Funders can Effectively Support Volunteer-led Movements September 27, 2017 By Lindsay Emery How can funders effectively support volunteers in movement building? This interactive session examines how volunteers and organizations can work together as part of a movement, highlighting a recent collaboration between Wikimedia Foundation and TCC Group. Speakers will illustrate what they have learned about how funders can work effectively as part of a shared-ownership movement, exploring … Continued
Capacity Building 3.0: Building Sustainable Learning Communities for Effective Public Health Delivery September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin Funders of public health organizations are striving to be more effective as the number of foundations, public and regulatory scrutiny, and demands for accountability have increased. As a growing number of grantmakers seek higher performance for nonprofits, many also realize they could do a better job “practicing what they preach,” especially in regards to planning, … Continued
Public-Private Partnerships: Risks and Opportunities for the Human Rights Movement September 25, 2017 By Lindsay Emery The aim of this session will be to help funders explore the potential of public-private partnerships for human rights, addressing how to assess opportunities to shift the needle on systemic issues, overcome challenges, and achieve specific partnership goals. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of the governance and accountability challenges of public-private partnerships, what … Continued
How to Leverage the Law for Greater Impact September 25, 2017 By Lindsay Emery Do you want to hear first-hand examples from grantmakers and advocates of how supporting legal action as a grantmaker has transformed society? Do you want to learn how you can position support for litigation within any portfolio? Do you want to hear the key questions that some of the most experienced grantmakers in the country … Continued
How Funders can Effectively Support Volunteer-led Movements September 25, 2017 By Lindsay Emery How can funders effectively support volunteers in movement building? This interactive session is all about how volunteers and organizations can work together as part of a movement. TCC Group and the Wikimedia Foundation will share their recent collaboration, showcasing what they’ve learned about how funders can effectively work as part of a shared-ownership movement. We … Continued