Insights & Perspectives Resolve to Build Bridges in Your Grantmaking It’s a New Year with new beginnings. While any time of the year can be the right time to make a change or reimagine your work, the New Year brings a sense of renewal and promise. In this spirit, we propose making this the year you resolve to build bridges,…
Our Team Rebecca McPettit Shaping systems and building bridges to enhance outcomes in philanthropy “The purpose of a system is what it does.”-Stafford Beer, British theorist, consultant, and professor at the Manchester Business School Rebecca is a multifaceted philanthropy professional who thrives on driving impact by aligning people, process, and purpose. As part of…
Resources Grantee Capacity-Building Practice at the Walton Family Foundation Review and Recommendations for Accelerating Impact As part of the Walton Family Foundation’s 2025 Strategy, the intentional building of grantee partners’ capacity emerged as a common practice across all the foundation’s programs and departments. As grantmaking from the 2025 Strategy has grown and matured—including the foundation’s grants to build its…
Resources Bold Problems Require Bold Funders, Implementers, and Solutions: Results from Testing a New Philanthropic Model At least 241 pledges have been made by philanthropists from 29 different countries to give the majority of their wealth to charitable causes during their lifetimes or in their wills. Most of this money, however, remains on the sidelines despite the urgency of local, national and global social and economic…
Insights & Perspectives Storytelling Souvenirs What TCC Group’s Evaluation Team Brought Back from The American Evaluation Association’s Evaluation 2023 Conference 📖 Storytelling and Evaluation Storytelling in evaluation is a powerful way to describe the cause and effect of programs or initiatives. Walking your audience down the path of a programmatic story is an immersive tactic…
Our Team Annie Zhou Over ten years of experience with global and domestic complex community health problems and a passion for health equity are the lenses through which Annie views her role at TCC Group. Her adaptive and collaborative approach brings diverse stakeholders together to find common ground and work towards a shared goal.…
Insights & Perspectives Taking the Prize in Expanding Donor Interest While more than $1 trillion in new money for philanthropy has been promised through the Giving Pledge, most of this money remains on the sidelines. Despite the urgency of local, national, and global social and economic challenges, would-be donors have no accessible, trusted, and reliable way to choose with confidence…
Insights & Perspectives Putting Descartes Before the Report: Telling Your Evaluative Story with the Grid Design System I’m Rose Konecky, Evaluation and Learning Consultant at TCC Group. I’m here to turn you into a creator of visualization masterpieces. Really! As evaluators, we always have a story to tell, but we sometimes limit ourselves to words (which, of course, are important) and canned chart creators (also important!). I’m…
Our Team Megan Tomey Advancing social impact initiatives through the lens of philanthropy and nonprofit strategy “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” ― Henry David Thoreau Megan’s authentic and discerning approach, matched with her expertise in nonprofit strategy, capacity building, and…
Events Democratizing the Development of Theories of Change Leveraging New and Older Technology to Give Voice to Individuals & Sectors, to Tell the Story of Programs and the Communities They Serve Thank you for attending the Democratizing the Development of Theories of Change presentation at Evaluation 2023 focusing on Concept Mapping! We hope you enjoyed it. If…
Resources Accelerating Promising Practices for Small and Rural Libraries (APP) Program Report The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)’s Accelerating Promising Practices for Small and Rural Libraries (APP) program was designed to support libraries serving smaller and more rural communities as they develop community-prioritized services that would document community histories, advance digital inclusion of residents, and transform school-based libraries into centers…
Insights & Perspectives Sparking New Collaborations and Deepening Relationships with Learning Communities For funders considering various mechanisms for broader and deeper levels of engagement with organizations and stakeholders, Learning Communities are a powerful tool. They support the development of trusting and thoughtful relationships, cultivation of allies and supporters on mission-aligned topics, and establishment of credibility and expertise. On the grantee side, Learning…
Insights & Perspectives A Journey From GenCon to Social Impact “Gaming brings people together” – Lisa Su, CEO, Advanced Micro Devices This year, I had the unique opportunity to attend GenCon2023, North America’s largest tabletop game convention. With an estimated attendance surpassing 70,000, this year’s event gathered game designers, developers, distributors, and enthusiasts in Indianapolis. Over several days, attendees shared,…
Resources Evaluating Impact: Pre-K for PA Campaign, Learning & Insights From Eight Years of a State-Based Advocacy Initiative In 2014, TCC Group was funded by the William Penn Foundation to serve as an embedded evaluator to the Pre-K for PA Campaign, an advocacy campaign comprised of members throughout Pennsylvania working together to increase access to, and the affordability of, high-quality pre-kindergarten programs in the state. While we observed…
Insights & Perspectives Gaming for Social Impact “Games aren’t just filler in education. They have the ability to introduce, reinforce, or even assess learning of a given topic.” – Kara Carrero Games are fun. But what if we told you that we think that games can be so much more? What if games could not only teach,…