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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change.

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

sgEngage

In recent years, that model is being challenged. Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. Why Would a Grantmaker Choose a Participatory Grantmaking Approach? How Is Participatory Grantmaking Done?

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COVID-19 case study: Changing funding practices in Europe

Candid

Many European funders have seen their ability to focus on a longer-term perspective to target systemic change as a strength, as opposed to operating in a crisis mode. We also saw significant philosophical changes in how foundations operate. The same thinking also applies to European foundations’ efforts to address racial injustice.

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Creating A Global Network of Capacity Builders for Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. I was interviewed for the report).

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Linking Challenge to Opportunity to Strategy

Achieve

care about what lies ahead for the organization, and what they can do to help make change happen. The points above underscore the important role individual supporters play in the change process. I hope they also convey a sense of the linkage that is often missing from strategic plans: challenge begets opportunity begets strategy.

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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Philanthropy for change, not charity.

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Explore Impact Leadership at NTEN’s Leading Change Summit: Free Registration Giveaway

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m giving away a free registration to NTEN’s Leading Social Change Summit. NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. What great about this conference is that we will have creative immersion and change to “sleep on our ideas.”