Localization Part 3: Whose Story Is It? Practices for Using a Localization Approach to Share and Interpret Evaluation Findings January 30, 2024 By Judy Ney Crucial to using a localization approach (i.e., integrating the voices of those who are most affected by the social or environmental challenges being addressed) is a mindset and a belief that everyone who touches a program or intervention brings skills to the table that can contribute to a successful evaluation. We are all taking in … Continued
Navigating Challenging Conversations: Getting on The Same Page to Strengthen the Impact of Your Family’s Philanthropy April 24, 2023 By Judy Ney We are in a time and place where more families and family foundations are reflecting on their role in society and examining how their philanthropic presence can or should be growing, adapting and evolving to better address societal changes. As part of this process, families and family foundations are grappling with complex issues and facing … Continued
Nesting to Achieve Impact: Lessons for Family Funders from the Annie E. Casey Foundation October 27, 2021 By Hillary (Published by the National Center for Family Philanthropy) Family funders are regularly seeking opportunities to amplify their impact in the communities in which they live, work, and serve. Although they may not always have the scale or scope of larger national foundations, all family funders can still draw many lessons from larger funders about how … Continued
How Can We Be Better Funders? Let’s Do the Homework May 26, 2021 By Claire Schultz TCC Group Senior Philanthropy Consultant Maritza Guzmán shares tips for how funders can do their part to minimize the financial burden on the nonprofits they seek to work with.
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.
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.
“This Is The Time” June 5, 2020 By Claire Schultz At TCC Group, we denounce the recent murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Manuel Ellis, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and the many instances of police violence. We unequivocally believe that Black Lives Matter, and universally condemn the prevailing systemic racism and oppression that has for centuries perpetuated structural violence and continues to fuel vast societal inequities and injustices. We … Continued
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.”
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.