Beyond the Silo: Why Integrated Communications Is Critical for Social Impact October 1, 2025 By Judy Ney Across the country, nonprofits, advocacy groups, and philanthropic institutions are being forced into survival mode. Executive orders threaten public funding, communities face mounting attacks, and nonprofit organizations operate in crisis mode. In the scramble for survival, many organizations are overlooking an issue that undermines their impact: siloed communications. While external threats mount, fragmented messaging and … Continued
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
Relational Capacity: Why Does Working Together Feel So Damn Hard? June 16, 2022 By Claire Schultz Discover the eight capacity areas nonprofits need to effectively build and leverage relationships with peers, constituents, funders, and businesses in their communities.
CCAT® Facilitator Certification Program February 22, 2022 By Claire Schultz Diversify your consulting toolkit The CCAT is a key tool for consultants, foundation staff, and other capacity building professionals to use in their work with nonprofits, providing their clients and grantees with data to guide and catalyze organizational change. Through its CCAT Facilitator Training Program, TCC Group trains individuals to administer the CCAT, facilitate the … 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.
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.
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.
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 a Capacity February 25, 2019 By Claire Schultz How does an evaluator assess the uptick of equity when it is delivered via capacity-building trainings?
Equity as a Leading Principle February 11, 2019 By Claire Schultz This is Part One of our five-part series titled, “Equity and Evaluation: Models of How Equity Can and Does Impact Evaluation.” The subsequent four parts will be released over the next two months (updated February 11, 2019). The philanthropic and nonprofit fields, and organizations and individuals serving those fields, have shown an increasing focus … Continued
Think Local: Local Consultants are an Untapped Resource for “Sticky” Capacity Building Investments March 25, 2018 By Marketing Admin For years, many in the nonprofit realm have advocated for increases in unrestricted funding, general operating support, and/or dedicated capacity building funds. But when it comes to reaping the full benefits of capacity building dollars, funding is not always enough.
Be Informed: Developing Content for Media Campaigns (Stage 2) December 18, 2017 By Marketing Admin Media campaigns are intended to affect their audiences – such as convincing people not to text and drive, or persuading people to purchase a product or vote for a particular candidate. There are various touchpoints where media can help lead an audience from awareness to action on an issue . Being able to track these touchpoints – and the anti audiences engaged – enables organizations and media distributors to more efficiently and effectively test their content as well as intelligently move audiences from awareness to action at a faster, more effective rate. Referencing the four key stages in a media campaign , this post focuses on the second stage: content development.