Insights & Perspectives Grantmaking & Giving Platforms: How Do I Find a System with Staying Power? With ever-rising expectations and the public’s demand for positive social impact, funders want their grantmaking programs to meet these higher standards. But finding the right system to meet your needs and budget can be a daunting task—especially with so many to choose from. That’s why it’s important to define a…
Insights & Perspectives One Size Does Not Fit All: Program Management Software Solutions As today’s leading companies launch and expand corporate citizenship programs, they continue to seek greater social and environmental impact. While they operate at various levels of scale, they all face critical challenges around tracking and reporting data, operational inefficiencies, and nonprofit relations. When it comes to researching and selecting a…
Our Team Virginia DelGaldo Financial clarity, strength, and stability An approachable and respected leader, Virginia is the financial steward and operational excellence accelerator for TCC Group. Focused on clarity, simplicity, and efficiency, she has a strong track record of advancing the internal systems and financial management of the firm. She recently implemented a leading-edge…
Insights & Perspectives FAQs: Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT) WHAT IS THE HISTORY BEHIND THE FCCAT? For many years, the social sector has witnessed an increase in the attention paid to nonprofit and grantee capacity, but comparatively little formal and field-wide examination of the kinds of institutional capacity needed by foundations to deliver on their missions. There have been…
Insights & Perspectives 10 Critical Questions A Smart Impact Investor Should Ask (And Be Able to Answer) With the rhetoric around impact investing reaching new heights, foundations and nonprofits would do well to keep the following in mind: Similar to grants, or different forms of non-grantmaking support, impact investing is but one tool in the social impact toolbox. Senior Consultant, Marieke Spence, shares ten critical questions a foundation should…
Our Team Priya Dadlani Utilizing technologies to create efficiencies and support capacity research Educated as a journalist, Priya has an intuitive and inquisitive approach to finding and cultivating solutions for administrative efficiencies, while also contributing to capacity research to support nonprofit client strategies. Her career in the social sector began in college as a…
Insights & Perspectives Why Democratic Grantmaking Cuts Across Party Lines TCC's Ashley Blanchard shares how the Hill-Snowden Foundation, for which she serves as a trustee, has made lasting impact in social justice philanthropy by seeing the work firsthand.
Insights & Perspectives 4 Predictions for the Future of the Nonprofit Sector How will the nonprofit sector evolve? What will change and what will stay the same?TCC Group President and CEO, Richard Mittenthal, shares his four predictions about the future of the nonprofit sector.
Insights & Perspectives From “Good” to “Great” (or Better Yet, Impactful) Does a “good board” really a strong organization make? Fixing your board…that’s what many of us in leadership positions in the nonprofit sector believe it takes to improve our organizational impact. But how much does developing and educating your board really improve the way your organization does its work?
Insights & Perspectives Toolkit Troubles? TCC’s Evaluators Share Their Top Tips Toolkits have the potential to impact nonprofit effectiveness. TCC Group’s work evaluating toolkits has identified 5 essential elements of creating and maintaining this powerful resource.