Foundations are grappling with how to address societal challenges deeply rooted in complex systems. At the same time, many foundations are trying to center equity in their work and to be more accountable to the communities they fund. They are doing all of this while...
Jara Dean-Coffey
The Time is Now to Embed Equity in Evaluation Practices
At the Equitable Evaluation Initiative, we believe that evaluators in the philanthropic sector have a moral imperative to design and implement evaluations that contribute to equity. This can happen by: Answering critical questions about the effect of a strategy on...
Putting Evaluation in Perspective: Past and Current Day
The Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices report released last month continues to add to our collective understanding of what happens behind the green curtain in philanthropy as it pertains to evaluation. Started by Patti Patrizi in 2009 and continued by CEI...
Design Thinking and Philanthropy: Are You Ready for It?
Jara Dean-Coffey explores the idea of design thinking, as introduced by Peter Sims during the 2013 CEP conference, posing questions for foundations as they think about making their own “little bets.”