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Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

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In early 2022, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy began an organization-wide grants change management review. Applied an equity lens: We aim to grant funds with an equity lens, focusing on the needs of historically or currently marginalized and at-risk populations along with more local, on-the-ground organizations.

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Getting the board on board with nonprofit technology changes

EveryAction

They can help drive a culture of adoption , which allows leadership to focus on change management activities to ensure you succeed with significant tech shifts. Does the organization need an independent, neutral third party to assess needs, listen to staff, and provide comprehensive analysis on the best path forward?

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. The following image conveys what this looked like in practice for the same cultural intermediary that used the matrix tool above. These visual analysis tools illuminate potential connections and spaces where relationships exist or are possible.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis.

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The 2024 Best NPOs To Work For: Data Shows Satisfaction Slipping In Some Areas

The NonProfit Times

The “Corporate Culture and Communications” category (“I like the people I work with at this organization,” and “This organization’s corporate communications are frequent enough”), topped out at 92% among the best top 50 nonprofits in 2021’s report on 2020 (88% this year) and 82% among the rest in 2021 (74% this year).

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our latest Impact Lab cohort on climate justice built an open-source tool for climate community-based organizations to access grant funding more seamlessly with the Grants Content Kit. In the next phase, we will continue to work with the community to build out these ideas. These ideas are just the beginning.

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2021 Strategic Planning, COVID-style

Connection Cafe

The work isn’t done yet, but as grants run out, they’re harder to renew in a changed economic climate. arts & culture institutions) may have even experienced a drop in donations compared to 2019. We know from past disasters that the year after a crisis hits can be even harder for nonprofits.