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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. This was a year-long project that required CDP to closely examine our processes and have bold conversations about how we wanted our grantmaking to look. We incorporated learnings and feedback from grantee partners.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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The answers to straightforward questions will typically indicate whether an applicant is technically qualified. Introducing a toxic personality into your team is a recipe for disaster. Know Who You Want Whether you are hiring a new employee or selecting staffers for a special project, a perfect fit doesn’t happen by accident.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

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For the next 700 words, I invite you to remember the disaster events that occurred in 2019, just months before the pandemic outbreak. . In 2019, millions of people around the world were affected by disasters and humanitarian crises. Foundations and public charities funded $352 million for disasters and humanitarian crises. .

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Resilience Rides the Waves of Disruption

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A global biological disaster was unique in our current experience. My business partner, Dan Kasprow, and I had been working on some large project implementations. Scenario planning aids in exploring these six core questions: Why are we engaged in planning now? A new threat is building in the wake of every previous challenge.

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Stop! Collaborate and listen

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If you are a nonprofit executive then, stop and consider collaboration or a merger. In our search to realize our nonprofit’s mission, collaborations and mergers are two strategies that can maximize impact under the right conditions. is a question asked often in the sector. Collaborations can be temporary or long term.

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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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Highlighting organizational or project-related weaknesses can be confrontational and require a level of candor that may be outside the board’s comfort zone. Or that the director who is championing a lucrative collaboration with a corporate partner is also on that organization’s board. Don’t laugh, I’ve seen it happen.

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Read their story on Covenant House International and Barker & Scott Impact Powered by: Donor Engagement Nonprofits Digital communications & marketing Fundraising ideas Project QUEST This interview with Project Quest chief program officer Lelani Mercado discusses why they invested in a case management solution and the impact it made.

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