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• Category: Announcement
  • Putting Descartes Before the Report: Telling Your Evaluative Story with the Grid Design System
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  • Funding Health Advocacy in Turbulent Times: Three Practices to Adopt
  • Offering the CCAT® to Your Grantees
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  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
  • A Statement of Values to Guide Philanthropic Collaboration
  • How do organizations use the CCAT®?
  • Using an Ecosystem Approach to Define Nonprofit Strategy
  • Our 9 Types of Evaluation Work – Which are Useful to You?
  • FAQs: Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT)
  • Why Doing Good is Good Business
• Category: Perspective
  • AEA 365 Blog: Friends or Frenemies? Evaluation, Corporations and Sustainability
  • Localization Part 3: Whose Story Is It- Practices for Using a Localization Approach to Share and Interpret Evaluation Findings
  • Storytelling Souvenirs
  • Taking the Prize in Expanding Donor Interest
  • A Journey From GenCon to Social Impact
  • Resolve to Build Bridges in Your Grantmaking
  • Sparking New Collaborations and Deepening Relationships with Learning Communities
  • Gaming for Social Impact
  • How Do We Design Meaningful Strategies with Communities? We Listen!
  • Small Steps to Great Impact in Trust-Based Philanthropy
  • Navigating Challenging Conversations: Getting on The Same Page to Strengthen the Impact of Your Family’s Philanthropy
  • Rethinking Leadership Development Evaluation
  • Centering Communities: A Case Study of Partnering in Place from Baltimore and Jackson
  • Letting Communities Lead: How National Funders Can Advance Equity by Partnering with Local and Regional Foundations
  • Localization Part 2: Implementing a Localized Evaluation & Learning Framework
  • Harnessing the Power of Values to Advance Narrative Change
  • Getting up to Speed on Supporting Grassroots
  • Improving Advocacy Coalition Support and Effectiveness
  • New Questions for Advocacy Evaluators
  • Policy Wins for the Long Haul
  • Re-Shaping Evaluation in Today’s World
  • Spotlight on TCC Group Changemakers: Rose Konecky
  • Spotlight on TCC Group Changemakers: Naomi Korb Weiss
  • Spotlight on TCC Group Changemakers: Stephanie Coker
  • Convening to Co-Create a Sex-Positive Narrative about HIV Centering Black Women: A Change Is Gonna Come
  • Localization Part 1: Ensuring Readiness of Your Organization for Localizing Data Design, Collection and Use
  • Ten Steps Toward Meaningful Convenings
  • Convening Effectiveness Matters
  • Realizing Readiness: Takeaways from Two Foundation Leaders
  • Meeting the Future with a New Approach to Readiness: Part II
  • Our Culture of Continuous Learning: Retooling our Evaluation Tools
  • At the Social Sector Crossroads: A Different, More Enlightened Path
  • Meeting the Future with a New Approach to Readiness
  • Nesting to Achieve Impact: Lessons for Family Funders from the Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • How Can We Be Better Funders? Let’s Do the Homework
  • Lessons From Casey’s Strategic Coinvestor Approach to Community Change
  • Will foundations’ next crisis response be déjà vu all over again?
  • Webinar Explores the Casey Foundation’s Strategic Coinvestor Approach to Community Change
  • The Evaluator as Facilitator: Considerations for Good Facilitation Practice
  • A Nonprofit Balancing Act: The Precipice or Solid Ground?
  • Leading with Values: How Communicating Your Organization’s Values Will Help You Live Them
  • Relational Capacity: Why Does Working Together Feel So Damn Hard?
  • To Convene or Not Convene? Why COVID May Be Among the Least Important of Your Deciding Factors
  • We’re Giving Away Five Diagnostic Tools to Organizations Impacted by COVID-19. Here’s Why.
  • Strengthening Nonprofits in the Time of COVID-19: Part One
  • Support Black Artists: A Call to Funders
  • Work in Progress: How One Consulting Firm Is Helping Funders Adapt in an Evolving Sector
  • COVID-19: Questions Nonprofit Leaders Should Be Asking Right Now
  • Be Adaptive: Using Information to Adapt Programming (Stage 3)
  • Equity as Tokenism
  • Equity as a Point of Tension
  • Equity as an Afterthought
  • Challenging the Norms
  • Evaluation in the Era of #MeToo
  • Equity as a Capacity
  • Equity as a Leading Principle
  • The Power of (Not) Listening
  • How Companies Meet Stakeholder Expectations
  • What Does It Mean To Be A Strong Corporate Citizen?
  • Three Essential Elements for Evaluating Systems Initiatives
  • The First Year of a New Presidency Moves Philanthropy to Action
  • Think Local: Local Consultants are an Untapped Resource for “Sticky” Capacity Building Investments
  • How Do We Evaluate Progress Towards the Sustainable Development Goals?
  • Best Practices in Corporate Citizenship Structures
  • Be Informed: Developing Content for Media Campaigns (Stage 2)
  • Three Ways Foundations Can Navigate Changing Political Tides
  • Responding to the Call: How to Pursue Legal Advocacy
  • Three Common Questions about Funding Advocacy
  • What Can Associations of Grantmakers Teach You?
  • The Age of the Strategic Follower
  • 6 Ways Family Foundations Can Make A Difference in Immigrant and Refugee Lives
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Are You Asking the Right Questions?
  • Why Companies Invest in Social Enterprises
  • 5 Things Foundations Say About Their Capacity
  • Illustrate Your Impact Goals with Logic Model Heat Mapping
  • Be SMART: Designing Effective Media Campaigns (Stage 1)
  • Building Evaluation Capacity Across International Offices
  • What Surprises Me about Human Rights Grantmaking
  • 4 Tips for Culturally Responsive Programming
  • Build Trust With A Purpose Statement
  • How to Strengthen Your Family Foundation’s Impact
  • 4 Key Stages for Measuring Your Media Outcomes
  • The Story of a TCC-er at Summer Camp
  • Building a More Effective Community Approach
  • Municipalities: The Missing Link To Social Sector Capacity Building
  • Grow Stronger & Achieve Greater Impact
  • Legal Advocacy as a Strategy: An Undertaking of the Atlas Learning Project
  • Are There Too Many Cooks in Your Nonprofit’s Strategic Planning Kitchen?
  • How Media Affects Social Change
  • Grantmaking & Giving Platforms: How Do I Find a System with Staying Power?
  • One Size Does Not Fit All: Program Management Software Solutions
  • 10 Critical Questions A Smart Impact Investor Should Ask (And Be Able to Answer)
  • Why Democratic Grantmaking Cuts Across Party Lines
  • 4 Predictions for the Future of the Nonprofit Sector
  • From “Good” to “Great” (or Better Yet, Impactful)
  • Toolkit Troubles? TCC’s Evaluators Share Their Top Tips
  • CASE STUDY: Supporting Organizational Effectiveness Within Movements
  • Successful Corporate Citizenship: What Sets Leading Companies Apart?
  • Are Your Trustees Involved Too Much—or Too Little—in Grantmaking?
  • Game-Changing Philanthropy: Is Sean Parker the Daenerys Targaryen of Philanthropy?
  • 4 Steps to Leverage Your Philanthropic Impact with Non-Grantmaking Roles
  • Meeting a Family’s Growing Philanthropic Needs
  • Coordinated Funding: Lessons from a Place-Based Grantmaking Collaborative
  • A New Approach to Capacity Building
  • Foundation Strategies to Inform Federal Policy in the United States
  • 10 Key Factors to Help Funders Thrive
  • Category: Feature
    • Spotlight on TCC Group Changemakers: Jennifer Stephens
• Category: Special Feature
  • Spotlight on TCC Group Changemakers: Rebecca McPettit
  • Spotlight on TCC Group Changemakers: Maritza Guzmán
  • Spotlight on TCC Group Changemakers: Dwyane Williams
  • Spotlight on TCC Group Changemakers: Lisa Frantzen
  • Spotlight on TCC Group Changemakers: Kiandra Morton
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  • “This Is The Time”

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• American Evaluation Association: Evaluation 2023 "The Power of Story"
• The Communications Network Annual Conference- ComNet23
• American Evaluation Association: Using Word and Excel to Analyze Qualitative Data- eStudy 130
• European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP)
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• frank. the gathering for people who change the world
• CCAT Facilitator Training 2023
• ComNet 2022
• South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association 8th Biennial Conference
• Evaluation 2022- American Evaluation Association (AEA) Annual Conference
• American Evaluation Association: LGBTQ+ Evaluation: Building a Liberatory Praxis Together - eStudy 123
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Change Leadership Initiative Evaluation Series
• Fall 2022 CCAT Facilitator Training Program
• Spring 2022 CCAT Facilitator Certification Program
• Mozilla Festival 2022
• GEO's 2022 National Conference May 18th 10:30-11:45 CT
• Winter 2021 CCAT Facilitator Certification Program
• North Carolina Center for Nonprofits 2021 Statewide Conference
• PA Association of Nonprofit Organizations (PANO) Annual Collaborative Conference
• Equity & Evaluation Practice in Cultural Organizations
• Accelerating the Accelerators Conference 2021: Thriving Forward
• CHANGE Philanthropy 2021 Unity Summit
• R/evolution: The 2021 Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy National Conference
• Lessons From the Casey Foundation’s Strategic Coinvestor Approach to Community Change
• Spring 2021 CCAT Facilitator Certification Program
• 2020 American Evaluation Annual International Conference
• Fall 2020 CCAT Facilitator Certification Program
• PEAK 2020 Online: Strategic Grantmaking: How Can Evaluation Help Grantmakers Think Forward?
• Winter 2020 CCAT Facilitator Certification Program
• PEAK Grantmaking 2020 Annual Conference
• BoardSource Leadership Forum
• Engaging the C-Suite: How to Build Internal Support for Your Corporate Citizenship Approach
• 2019 American Evaluation Annual International Conference
• Fall 2019 CCAT Facilitator Training & Certification Program
• Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia Best Practice Forum: Cause Marketing
• Health Equity Research Learning Exchange
• How Strong is my Corporate Citizenship Portfolio?: How to Assess to Align Programs and Maximize Impact
• 2019 Grantmakers In Health Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy
• The Exchange 2019
• 2019 Africa Grantmakers' Affinity Group (AGAG) Annual Conference
• Northern California Grantmakers: How Strong Is My Corporate Citizenship Portfolio?
• Iris House 14th Annual Women as the Face of AIDS Summit
• Making the Case for Inclusion of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian (MASA) communities into Racial Justice, Immigration Portfolios
• Service for Impact
• The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities Annual Conference: Power Forward
• Essential Skills and Strategies for New Program Officers
• How Strong Is My Corporate Citizenship Portfolio? How to Assess to Align Programs and Maximize Impact—A Webinar
• Activating Philanthropy's Power for Change: The Role of Self-Assessment and Honest Feedback
• Race Forward: Accelerating Health Justice Using Place-Based, Co-Created Initiatives
• 2019 National HIV Prevention Conference
• 2018 American Evaluation Association Annual International Conference
• Grantmakers in Health Annual Conference: Nonprofit Capacity Building
• Grantmaking in the Age of Trump – Insights From Philanthropy Advisors
• Using Rapid Cycle Learning to Infuse a Culture of Continuous Learning
• Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network: Building Supportive Professional Relationships
• Arts Funding at Twenty-Five
• Employee Engagement: Aligning Corporate and Social Purpose
• Telling Your CSR Impact Story with a Program Outcomes Framework
• Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility Measurement and Evaluation
• 2017 American Evaluation Association Annual International Conference
• Funding Is Not Enough: Building the Supply Side of the Capacity Building Ecosystem
• Telling Your CSR Impact Story: An Outcomes Framework for a Portfolio of Programs
• Strengthening Your CSR Impact Story with a Program Outcomes Framework
• Strategic Planning: Is Your Board Ready?
• Strengthening Your CSR Impact Story with a Program Outcomes Framework
• Effective Strategies for Supporting Public Policy Advocacy Campaigns
• Communicating Impact: Why We Matter
• Disrupting the Current Capacity Building Landscape
• It’s Not Just That You Collaborate, It’s The Way You Collaborate
• Stepping Into the Fight: How Health Funders can use Legal Advocacy as a Strategy to Make Change
• Smarter Grantmaking Starts Here - Session 4
• Rapid Cycle Learning: From Program Design to Implementation
• Funding to Drive Sustainability and Impact
• Exploring Foundation Capacity: Why Does it Matter and What Do We Know: Preliminary Results from the Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool
• Effectively Supporting Education Through Evaluation and Learning
• How Funders can Effectively Support Volunteer-led Movements
• Fostering a Learning Culture in Family Philanthropy
• Is What's New Always "Shiny" and Better?
• Sway the Other Branches of Government
• Assessing the Impact
• Capacity Building 3.0: Building Sustainable Learning Communities for Effective Public Health Delivery
• Approaching Engagement and Audience Strategically
• 2016 American Evaluation Association Annual International Conference
• Strengthening the Social Sector Ecosystem
• Public-Private Partnerships: Risks and Opportunities for the Human Rights Movement
• The Secret to Building Fundraising Capacity
• Telling Your CSR Impact Story: An Outcomes Framework for a Portfolio of Programs
• How Consultants Can Work With Organizations to Build Evaluation Capacity
• New Frameworks for Measuring Capacity and Assessing Performance
• Ahead of the Curve Symposium
• How to Leverage the Law for Greater Impact
• CCAT New Facilitator Training Part 2
• CCAT New Facilitator Training Part 1
• How Funders can Effectively Support Volunteer-led Movements
• Trustee Essentials for Foundations
• Capacity Building 3.0: Data + Facilitation = Collaborative Learning
• Fostering a Learning Culture in Family Philanthropy
• 2015 American Evaluation Association Annual International Conference
• Building a Collaborative Culture
• Why Boards Matter: The Relationship Between Strongs Boards and Organizational Success
• Capacity Building 3.0: Recasting the WHO, WHAT, and HOW of Increasing Social Sector Impact
• Shine a Light: The Role of Consultants in Fostering a Learning Culture at Foundations
• Families Funding Change: How Social Justice Giving Honors Our Roots and Strengthens Communities
• What Makes an Effective Action Coalition? TCC Group Offers Its Findings
• A Framework for Developing High-Impact Corporate Programs
• Pulled Two Ways: Finding the Balance Between Strategic and Reactive Grantmaking

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• When Health and Social Justice Intersect
• Fostering Workforce Diversity in the Cyber Security Field
• Moving the World Toward More Humane and Effective Drug Policies
• Improve Health Care by Transforming the Nursing Profession
• Rooting Out Inequities and Racism in the Criminal Justice System
• Creating a Better World for Children

Resources

• Dreaming Bigger: Lessons Learned in Creating the AMP Grant Initiative
• Grantee Capacity-Building Practice at the Walton Family Foundation
• Bold Problems Require Bold Funders, Implementers, and Solutions: Results from Testing a New Philanthropic Model
• Accelerating Promising Practices for Small and Rural Libraries (APP) Program Report
• Evaluating Impact: Pre-K for PA Campaign, Learning & Insights From Eight Years of a State-Based Advocacy Initiative
• Values-Based Communication: How Leading with Values Can Power Your Organization
• Strategic Roadmap: Scaling Economic Mobility Narrative Change
• Our Own North Stars: Supporting the Next Generation of Leaders- Learnings from the Positive Action for Youth Initiative
• Culture of Health Leaders: Policy Change Findings
• Investing in Grassroots Advocacy: A Funder's Guide
• Pathways to Policy Durability: Insights for Advocates and their Funders
• Here As I Am: A Listening Initiative with Latinx Gay and Bisexual Men Affected by HIV
• From Risk to Reasons: A Guide for Communicating and Connecting with Black Women about HIV
• Coalitions as a Tool for Advocacy
• Now is the Time to Radically Reimagine Readiness
• Equity & Evaluation in Cultural Organizations
• Innovating Place-Based Grantmaking: An Evaluation of the Annie E. Casey Foundation “Strategic Co-Investor” Approach
• Approaching the Intersection: Will a Global Pandemic and National Movement for Racial Justice Take Philanthropy Beyond Its Silos?
• The New York Women's Foundation: Executive Summary for the Evaluation of the NYC Fund for Girls & Young Women of Color
• How Philanthropy Support Organizations Understand and Advance Community Power Building
• A Framework for the Effective Evaluation of Convenings
• Equity and Evaluation: Models of How Equity Can and Does Impact Evaluation
• A Framework for Successful Corporate Citizenship
• Coordinated Funding: Lessons from a Place-Based Grantmaking Collaborative
• Foundation Strategies to Inform Federal Policy in the United States
• The Secret to Building Fundraising Capacity
• Targeted Capacity Building - CCAT® Refresher Course
• What Makes an Effective Action Coalition? TCC Group Offers Its Findings
• Strategic Planning—Is Your Board Ready?
• Meet Me Where I Want To Be: An Ethnographic Research Study of Black Gay Men in Baltimore, Maryland, and Jackson, Mississippi
• Networks That Care: An Ethnographic Research Study of Black Women in New Orleans
• Strengthening Your CSR Impact Story with a Program Outcomes Framework
• Advocacy Core Capacity Assessment Tool (Advocacy CCAT)
• Empowering Communities for TB Advocacy: The TAG-ICW Model
• Pathways to Grow Impact: Philanthropy’s Role in the Journey
• Thinking Strategically About Networks for Change
• Partner-Centered Evaluation Capacity Building: Findings from a Corporate Social Impact Initiative
• Unlocking the Mystery of Volunteer Retention: How Girl Scouts of Northern California is Using Advanced Predictive Analytics to Inform its Volunteer Management Practices
• Relational Capacity: A New Approach to Capacity Building in Philanthropy
• (Re)thinking Funder Networks and Collaboratives
• The Missing Link for Maximizing Impact: Foundations Assessing Their Capacity
• Shine a Light: The Role of Consultants in Fostering a Learning Culture at Foundations
• Driving Strategy for Social Impact
• Toward a More Just Justice System: How Open are the Courts to Social Justice Litigation?
• Step into the Fight: Philanthropy's Role in Legal Advocacy
• For Coalitions: How to Use Logic Model Heat Mapping
• For Foundations: How to Use Logic Model Heat Mapping
• For Nonprofits: How to Use Logic Model Heat Mapping
• Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT)
• Capacity Building 3.0: How to Strengthen the Social Ecosystem
• Ten Keys – Ten Years Later: Successful Strategic Planning for Foundation Leaders
• Ten Keys to Successful Strategic Planning for Nonprofit and Foundation Leaders
• Strategic Philanthropy: Maximizing Family Engagement and Social Impact
• The Best of the Humanistic and Technocratic: Why the Most Effective Work in Philanthropy Requires a Balance
• Maximizing Foundation Effectiveness: Aligning Program Strategy, Organizational Capacity, Strategic Planning, and Performance Assessment to Achieve Success
• Designing Effective Foundation Program Strategy
• Fortifying L.A.'s Nonprofit Organizations: Capacity-Building Needs and Services in Los Angeles County
• Change Management: Strategies to Help Nonprofit Leaders Make the Most of Uncertain Times
• What Makes an Effective Coalition? Evidence-Based Indicators of Success
• Success by Design: How R&D Activates Program Innovation and Improvement in the Nonprofit Sector
• What Makes an Effective Advocacy Organization? A Framework for Determining Advocacy Capacity
• When Things Fall Apart: Building Organizational Strength of Humanitarian Aid Organizations
• Visionary Resistance: Inside the Rapid-Response Model of the Emergent Fund
• Advocacy Campaigns and Embedded Evaluators: Lessons Learned
• Unique Methods in Multi-Stakeholder Evaluation
• Capturing General Operating Support Effectiveness: An Evaluation Framework for Funders and Evaluators
• Evaluating Legal Advocacy: A How-To Guide for Evaluators, Funders, and Advocates
• Stepping into the Fight: A Guide for Nonprofits to Understand and Engage in Legal Advocacy
• Stepping into the Fight: A Funder’s Guide for Understanding and Supporting Legal Advocacy
• Unprecedented: The First Year of a New Presidency Moves Philanthropy to Action
• Foundations Need Capacity Too: Initial Findings from the Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool
• Effective Strategies to Support Advocacy Campaigns: Considerations for Funders and Advocates
• TCC Group's CCAT®

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