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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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10 Things to Look for When Evaluating a Grant Proposal

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Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. To help you better review submissions so that you are set up for success, here are 10 items you should look for as you evaluate your grant applications. Check out our due diligence questionnaire.

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The 10 roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit Board of Directors

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In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. It’s also responsible for making sure the organization meets its regulatory responsibilities and files appropriate paperwork with government agencies.

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How to Make Analytics a Priority – Finally!

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Ask your colleagues questions. Use softer, more open-ended questions to get detailed information that you will capture in writing for your plan. What questions do you want answers to from data? Process – If you have a question, what is the process to get your answers? Evaluate Your Opportunity Costs. Take action!

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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. Once we embrace knowledge work, not as a technical task but as social construction, we then start to ask exciting questions about relationships, purpose, and movement. Philanthropy loves “new” things. Information is all around us.

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9 Things to Look for When Evaluating a Grant Proposal

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Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. Program Partners: If the nonprofit will be working with other partners (whether nonprofit, academic, government, even other grantmakers), are these partners experienced in this type of program?

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

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This Impact Lab cohort sets out to address the question: How might we enable female, small-scale farmers in maximizing food production and planning proactively? He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh.

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