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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. Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation? But is this the right question?

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

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Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities , by ABFE and Candid  For every $100 foundations gave to the average Ivy League, they gave 56 cents to the average historically Black college and university (HBCU). This report looks to fill that gap by examining U.S. communities face.

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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

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When the Supreme Court gutted race-conscious admissions last summer and the American Alliance for Equal Rights followed with a lawsuit against the Fearless Fund, some in the philanthropic sector feared that demographic data had become a potential liability. It also provides a quantitative baseline to evaluate and build upon equity strategies.

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Prioritizing authentic connections through trust-based philanthropy 

Candid

To make the process transparent and participatory, we also asked other values-aligned organizations for feedback on our initial framework before putting it into action. TBP practices such as multi-year unrestricted funding and simplified application and reporting processes are the logical outcome of treating grantees as our partners.

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

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Letting grantees lead: What we’re learning from the BUILD evaluation. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback.

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5 Trends in Grantmaking that We Think Have Staying Power

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Getting Closer to Your Community with Participatory Grantmaking Nonprofit organizations such as Maine Initiatives have been using Participatory Grantmaking for years to distribute the decision-making power to people closest to the problem. There are several benefits to adding participatory grantmaking to your funding programs.

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture. Grants and gifts that commit multiple years of funding up front best enable learning to unfold. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection.

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