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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
We’re Giving Away Five Diagnostic Tools to Organizations Impacted by COVID-19. Here’s Why. September 16, 2020 By Claire Schultz During crises like COVID-19, when the environment is increasingly complex, diagnostics help us home in on the things that we can actively understand and manage.