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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. In a flat organization, the distance between the CEO and junior employees is minimal. But that’s often the extent of the update. Clarify Roles.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation?

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

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Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. How the sector understands and engages in knowledge work is crucial to the success of philanthropic efforts.

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10 Things to Look for When Evaluating a Grant Proposal

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The application process is an organization’s first real look at how you work with grantees. It’s also your chance as a foundation to see if this organization is a good fit for your program. Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation.

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Thought Leaders Blaze Trails of Discovery and Engagement

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Passion plus knowledge is a powerful hook, making people who were about to swipe stay for a while. And our most ardent volunteers are typically people who love sharing knowledge. They will be representing your organization. And, don’t rely on information that’s several years old. For one compelling reason. Look outward.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

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This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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It’s not difficult to evaluate when someone has the right background and experience to do a job. One person can poison an entire organization. That specific information allows employers to hire people who are the right fit for their community, and it can help prospective employees avoid situations where they will not thrive.

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