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.
Resources Toward a More Just Justice System: How Open are the Courts to Social Justice Litigation? Authors: Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law This piece, written by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, explores the legal context around pursuing legal advocacy, including factors that favor and obstruct legal advocacy, key strategies to think about while engaged in legal advocacy work, and recommendations for…
Resources Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT) The Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT) is a statistically validated tool to strengthen the philanthropic sector by helping foundations assess their institutional capacity strengths and challenges. The FCCAT measures capacities critical to a wide variety of foundations. The tool has been carefully crafted to draw upon the field’s current…
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…
Resources What Makes an Effective Action Coalition? TCC Group Offers Its Findings Hear evaluators from TCC Group explore their findings on how effective the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action has been. TCC presented this summary at the Campaign’s annual Summit in Washington, D.C., December 10, 2015. This webinar is for those who did not attend. Use the TCC Coalition Capacity Checklist…
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.