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Building on Success: Targeted Strategies for Strengthening Southern Nevada Nonprofits

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Building on Success: Targeted Strategies for Strengthening Southern Nevada Nonprofits

Strengthening nonprofit ecosystems begins with understanding how organizations currently excel, their unique challenges, and their conception of existing limitations and potential solutions. To provide these insights for Southern Nevada nonprofits, and the funders and capacity builders that support them, Nevada GrantLab partnered with TCC Group (TCC) to document the capacity and capacity-building needs of a … Continued

From Messaging to Movement: The Evolving Role of Communications in Social Impact Organizations

Nonprofits, advocacy organizations, and philanthropic institutions are being targeted by Executive Orders and subjected to funding disruptions that strike at the heart of our missions. Our communities are under attack, and we’re scrambling to respond. For decades, we’ve talked about silos in the social sector, including departments that work in parallel, not in partnership. The … Continued

Exploring Evaluation in Corporate Social Good

Insights, Case Studies, and Tools  As Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has evolved into a more strategic and professionalized function central to helping businesses advance their missions, robust measurement, evaluation, and learning practices are needed to ensure credibility and value.  In 2024, TCC Group and Raya Cooper Impact Consulting administered a benchmarking survey on behalf of … Continued

Understanding the Emerging Field of Evaluation in Corporate Social Good

A 2025 Benchmarking Report from the Corporate Measurement and Evaluation Community of Practice Our groundbreaking study explores how social impact measurement practices are evolving across the corporate sector. With insights from 30 influential companies, including Fortune 500 giants, global industry leaders, and cutting-edge innovators in pharmaceuticals, banking, healthcare, consumer goods, and professional services, the report … Continued

Grantee Capacity-Building Practice at the Walton Family Foundation

Review and Recommendations for Accelerating Impact As part of the Walton Family Foundation’s 2025 Strategy, the intentional building of grantee partners’ capacity emerged as a common practice across all the foundation’s programs and departments. As grantmaking from the 2025 Strategy has grown and matured—including the foundation’s grants to build its grantee partners’ capacity—recognition has increased … Continued

Bold Problems Require Bold Funders, Implementers, and Solutions: Results from Testing a New Philanthropic Model

At least 241 pledges have been made by philanthropists from 29 different countries to give the majority of their wealth to charitable causes during their lifetimes or in their wills. Most of this money, however, remains on the sidelines despite the urgency of local, national and global social and economic challenges because would-be donors have … Continued

Accelerating Promising Practices for Small and Rural Libraries (APP) Program Report

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)’s Accelerating Promising Practices for Small and Rural Libraries (APP) program was designed to support libraries serving smaller and more rural communities as they develop community-prioritized services that would document community histories, advance digital inclusion of residents, and transform school-based libraries into centers of learning. The program is … Continued

Evaluating Impact: Pre-K for PA Campaign, Learning & Insights From Eight Years of a State-Based Advocacy Initiative

In 2014, TCC Group was funded by the William Penn Foundation to serve as an embedded evaluator to the Pre-K for PA Campaign, an advocacy campaign comprised of members throughout Pennsylvania working together to increase access to, and the affordability of, high-quality pre-kindergarten programs in the state. While we observed the Campaign’s internal dynamics at … Continued

Strategic Roadmap: Scaling Economic Mobility Narrative Change

Harmful narratives around economic mobility are becoming pervasive, but promising new narratives are emerging that reveal systemic causes of poverty and inequality, and that elevate shared humanity. These narratives are helping community organizers, journalists, and cultural influencers challenge deeply held beliefs and stereotypes that stand in the way of change. The National Domestic Workers Alliance … Continued

Our Own North Stars: Supporting the Next Generation of Leaders- Learnings from the Positive Action for Youth Initiative

“Each young person is so radically different- they each have their north star.  And our programs have to reflect that.” – Adult Lead, Grantee Project, ViiV Healthcare’s Positive Action for Youth  Funders seeking sustainable change to social issues affecting young people often use a ‘pause and reflect’ time to re-align and re-center to ensure equity … Continued

Culture of Health Leaders: Policy Change Findings

Organizational and public policies can heavily impact whether or not equity is achieved in our health system. TCC Group, as evaluators for a set of national leadership development programs funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, analyzed the extent to which Culture of Health Leaders participants and alumni reported involvement in policy change. This report … Continued

Investing in Grassroots Advocacy: A Funder’s Guide

Many foundations focused on equity have increased their support for Grassroots Advocacy Organizations (GRAOs) in recent years.  The Connecticut Health Foundation, with a mission focused on improving health outcomes for people of color and ensuring that all Connecticut residents have access to affordable and high-quality care, commissioned TCC Group to help it gain a better … Continued

Pathways to Policy Durability: Insights for Advocates and their Funders

For over a century, American policymakers have worked to implement policies that conserve natural resources and protect the environment, from Theodore Roosevelt’s efforts to establish national parks and the measures enacted in the wake of the Dust Bowl all the way to the efforts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. But simply passing … Continued