Insights & Perspectives Why Doing Good is Good Business TCC Group's CEO, Richard Mittenthal, is featured in the current edition of Profile Magazine, a publication that "identifies and promotes innovation in prominent American industries."
Insights & Perspectives 4 Steps to Leverage Your Philanthropic Impact with Non-Grantmaking Roles Increasingly, funders want to take on more catalytic roles within their communities. Creative grantmaking can help them move in this direction. But without realizing the potential of their non-grantmaking activity—convening, advocating, training, or educating—foundations may be leaving significant value on the table. In a recent GrantCraft blog post, TCC's Philanthropy…
Insights & Perspectives Meeting a Family’s Growing Philanthropic Needs Over the past 10 years, TCC Group has provided the Ohrstrom Foundation with administrative and grantmaking support and has guided its governance planning, program and operations, and grant assessment. Through our day-to-day management of the foundation, we identify and address emergent issues, drawing on our years of experience working with…
Insights & Perspectives Coordinated Funding: Lessons from a Place-Based Grantmaking Collaborative Three grantmakers in Michigan, including Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, the United Way of Washtenaw County, and the Joint Office of Community and Economic Development, recently coordinated the leadership and funding of the region’s human service programs in order to maximize community impact. During TCC Group’s evaluation of the initiative,…
Insights & Perspectives A New Approach to Capacity Building TCC's Directors published "Relational Capacity: A New Approach to Capacity Building in Philanthropy" in the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's winter journal. The article outlines a new vision of the relationship between funders and nonprofits, one that is collaborative, mutual and iterative. Today's complex challenges require more effective collaboration within…
Insights & Perspectives Foundation Strategies to Inform Federal Policy in the United States Commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, TCC Group’s latest research examines what motivates foundations to engage in advocacy, the methods they apply, and the results they achieve. Although the study focuses on federal policy, many of factors and strategies relate directly to foundation policy reform activities at all levels of government.
Insights & Perspectives 10 Key Factors to Help Funders Thrive Drawing on our client work in the intervening decade, TCC Group professionals have identified important key factors that help foundations overcome unique challenges, provide strategic clarity, and chart a successful path forward. In our latest briefing paper, Ten Keys – Ten Years Later: Successful Strategic Planning for Foundation Leaders, we…