Insights & Perspectives Building Evaluation Capacity Across International Offices For NGOs with offices in a wide variety of geographic locations, establishing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system that works for both the headquarters office and field offices can be a real challenge. If those offices operate in different countries, that challenge becomes even harder. Learn how Hand in Hand…
Resources Foundations Need Capacity Too: Initial Findings from the Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool For many years, the social sector has paid substantial attention to the issue of nonprofit effectiveness. By contrast, comparatively little attention has been paid to the capacities that foundations themselves need to achieve impact. What capacities are essential to advancing a foundation’s own mission? How do these elements compare to…
Resources Effective Strategies to Support Advocacy Campaigns: Considerations for Funders and Advocates This briefing paper shares collected insights from funders and advocates across the country, in the hope that their observations will helpfully contribute to other funding and campaign efforts. These respondents noted that while considerable attention has been paid to factors informing the development of sound campaign strategy, comparatively less attention…
Insights & Perspectives What Surprises Me about Human Rights Grantmaking When your job centers on helping funders assess needs, devise strategies, and manage and evaluate their grantmaking, you wish that every field would have a resource like Advancing Human Rights: Update on Global Foundation Grantmaking. Since IHRFG and Foundation Center launched this series four years ago—and added an interactive website…
Resources For Coalitions: How to Use Logic Model Heat Mapping In this 8-minute video, learn how your coalition can use logic model heat mapping as an effective tool to determine where your group is most active with regard to its stated activities and goals.
Resources For Foundations: How to Use Logic Model Heat Mapping In this 8-minute video, learn how your foundation can use logic model heat mapping as an effective tool to determine where your group is most active with regard to its stated activities and goals.
Resources For Nonprofits: How to Use Logic Model Heat Mapping In this 8-minute video, learn how your nonprofit organization can use logic model heat mapping as an effective tool to determine where your group is most active with regard to its stated activities and goals.
Resources Unique Methods in Multi-Stakeholder Evaluation Authors: ORS Impact, Spark Policy Institute, TCC Group A seminal resource in the advocacy evaluation field, “Unique Methods in Advocacy Evaluation” (Coffman & Reed, 2010) increased evaluators’ awareness of methods uniquely positioned to evaluate advocacy. This second brief adds to that toolbox, this time focusing on methods that have been…
Resources Capturing General Operating Support Effectiveness: An Evaluation Framework for Funders and Evaluators Data show that general operating support is on the rise. Yet foundations and evaluators alike need to better understand how to measure the impact of these grants. In this briefing paper, TCC Group reflects on its work evaluating general operating support and provides a comprehensive outcomes framework that maps out…
Resources Advocacy Campaigns and Embedded Evaluators: Lessons Learned From 2014 to 2016, TCC Group (TCC) partnered with Pre-K for PA Campaign and Campaign for Fair Education Funding (CFEF) to act as their embedded evaluator. For each advocacy campaign, TCC’s focus was on the quality of strategy, progress on short- and long-term goals, and internal capacity. Working with CFEF…