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

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Upper-level managers don’t have the bandwidth to vet or supervise new projects. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. Updating roles is a good place to begin promoting the flow of knowledge, ideas, and information across your association. The executive team is stretched too thin.

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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. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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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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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. Sustainability Plan.

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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. 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. Complex initiatives can benefit from having a professional project manager on the team.

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How to Determine Your Needs When Choosing a New Fundraising CRM

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When embarking on a technology project, you should always start by outlining the key purpose behind the investment. If you are unclear about your needs, abilities, and opportunities, you will quickly find it difficult to vet vendors and evaluate CRMs, not to mention bringing internal stakeholders onboard or getting sign-off at key stages.

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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. Evaluate Expertise Who exactly are the members of your new brain trust and where will you find them? Approach the project slowly and learn as you go.

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