Insights & Perspectives Are There Too Many Cooks in Your Nonprofit’s Strategic Planning Kitchen? It’s not about the number of cooks in your kitchen, but about each of their distinct roles. Learn how to identify the chef de cuisine, sous chef, line cooks, and patrons in your nonprofit’s strategic planning process.
Insights & Perspectives Our 9 Types of Evaluation Work – Which are Useful to You? What are we talking about when we say "evaluation"? How do you know what type of evaluation your organization needs? It's start off with identifying what key question(s) you are trying to answer. Take a look at the nine types of evaluation work we do at TCC Group - aligned with key…
Insights & Perspectives How Media Affects Social Change Media, and more importantly its ability to reach the public and provide commentary, has been present ever since the existence of a town crier. The tradition of oration has evolved to broadsheet, books, radio, television, and now, to the digital age. I’ve been an evaluator for over 25 years and, over…
Resources Targeted Capacity Building – CCAT® Refresher Course A webinar recording from February 26, 2016, Julie Simpson at TCC Group spends one hour exclusively on targeted capacity building—what it is, why it’s valuable, and how CCAT facilitators can use this approach in future interpretations. The specific roles and responsibilities for nonprofits, funders, and local consultants are also clearly…
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…
Resources Evaluating Legal Advocacy: A How-To Guide for Evaluators, Funders, and Advocates This guide introduces funders, advocates, and evaluators to thinking about evaluating legal advocacy work. In addition to legal impact, we explore how to measure the quality of the work and how to measure impact outside of the legal arena.
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…
Resources Step into the Fight: Philanthropy’s Role in Legal Advocacy Step into the Fight introduces funders and advocates to the concepts of legal advocacy—that is, using the judicial system to achieve social change. It was created as part of the Atlas Learning Project, generously funded by Atlantic Philanthropies and supported by the Center for Evaluation Innovation.
Resources Stepping into the Fight: A Guide for Nonprofits to Understand and Engage in Legal Advocacy This guide introduces advocates to the concept of legal advocacy, shares implications that legal advocacy can have for other kinds of advocacy work, talks through partnering for legal advocacy, and finally shares what outcomes can be achieved through using legal advocacy as a strategy.
Resources Stepping into the Fight: A Funder’s Guide for Understanding and Supporting Legal Advocacy This guide introduces funders to the concept of legal advocacy, what questions funders should ask themselves to know if the foundation is ready to fund legal advocacy, and how to best support legal advocacy.