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insight Aug 2022
Community in Philanthropy: What it is, why we need it, and how we can build it
By Dr. Albertina Lopez This piece was originally published on Grantmakers for Effective Organizations’ blog, and has been republished with their permission. Recently, I was chatting with my colleagues Drs. Divya Bheda and Kathleen Doll about community—what it looks like in higher education and what it means when you value equity—on ExamSoft’s Pedagogo podcast. Our … Continued
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publication Jul 2022
A Tool for Systems Change that Supports Learning in Foundations
Foundations are systems. They have their own cultures and related assumptions, norms, standards, and practices. We encourage foundations to take stock of their learning needs with a dispassionate (evaluative) look at themselves as systems and how people work within them.
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staff Apr 2022
Kate Morales
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publication Mar 2022
Toward a Trust-Based Framework for Learning and Evaluation
What if we reimagined evaluation as an opportunity for funders to learn and evolve as stewards, rather than taking on the narrow–and virtually impossible–task of proving that limited grants make a measurable impact on longstanding, complex social issues?
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insight Feb 2022
How To Center Equity in Measurement, Learning, & Evaluation
NationSwell convened a panel of experts to talk about how organizations should think about equity when engaging with measurement, learning, and evaluation.
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publication Jan 2022
Lost Causal: Debunking Myths About Causal Analysis in Philanthropy
Causal analysis is not just for controlled programmatic work, it is also for dynamic and emergent strategies that include network building, field building, advocacy, organizing, or movements.
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staff Jan 2022
Kayla Christopherson
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staff Jan 2022
Jordan Sanders
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staff Jan 2022
Stephanie O. Darby
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publication Nov 2021
We need to articulate our assumptions so that we can test them. Here’s a guide to help.
This four-page guidance defines assumptions, explains why it is critical to articulate them, and then offers a set of prompting questions to help elicit them. Examples are included.
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staff Nov 2021
Melly Kitenge
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staff Nov 2021
Efraín Gutiérrez
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