Events Communicating Impact: Why We Matter In this session we will learn why the ability to demonstrate our impact in our communities is an increasingly important part of our case for high-level philanthropic support. In this session we will look at a few different, tested approaches for planning and measuring impact. We’ll also explore examples of…
Events Disrupting the Current Capacity Building Landscape To solve the complex social sector challenges facing us today, we are evolving from discreet organizations attempting to achieve individual missions into communities willing to explore a more effective way to build our capacity to make change. This ecosystem approach tends to “disrupt” the traditional ways we have addressed the…
Events It’s Not Just That You Collaborate, It’s The Way You Collaborate 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…
Events Stepping Into the Fight: How Health Funders can use Legal Advocacy as a Strategy to Make Change 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…
Events Smarter Grantmaking Starts Here – Session 4 Presenters Barbara Alford, President, Wiregrass Foundation Julie Simpson, Director, Nonprofit Strategy & Capacity Building, TCC Group Host Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Remote Learning Series
Events Rapid Cycle Learning: From Program Design to Implementation 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…
Events Funding to Drive Sustainability and Impact Most nonprofits lack the funding and expertise they truly need to support their infrastructure, systems, leadership, and strategy development—the things they need not just to survive, but to thrive. Locally, however, there are new programs and models that provide this critical funding and support, including a County-wide initiative that ties it all…
Events Exploring Foundation Capacity: Why Does it Matter and What Do We Know: Preliminary Results from the Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool 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…
Events Effectively Supporting Education Through Evaluation and Learning Moving toward equity in education requires a fundamental shift in the way resources are allocated and public policies are made. Investing in advocacy for educational equity can be a powerful funding strategy. However, measuring the impact of advocacy investments can be challenging. Join us for a discussion of how evaluation…
Events How Funders can Effectively Support Volunteer-led Movements 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…