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Although there has much discussion about nonprofit sustainability, the “overhead myth,” and unrestricted funding (see TCC Group’s “The Sustainability Formula,” GEO’s “On the Money” and NFF’s “2013 State of the Nonprofit sector” as just a few examples), nonprofits...
In a recent blog post from my colleague Kevin Bolduc, he shared inspiring examples of two funders trying something a bit different: sharing the results of their Grantee Perception Reports (GPR) in-person with their grantees. While we often see foundations sharing...
How can funders better inform their own assessment of progress and earn their – and others’ - confidence in any impact achieved? That’s the question that jumped out at us here at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy after reviewing...
Every New Year, we tend to dream of what the next year might bring. In that spirit, here are my wishes for what we’d see in foundationland in my imagined 2014. Let me emphasize that these are not predictions (I am a bit of a cynic about predictions). These are instead...
Phil Buchanan, speaking to an audience of mostly nonprofit leaders at the After the Leap conference, asked if funders get it, when it comes to funding performance assessment for their grantees. Unsurprisingly, but discouragingly, the answer was for the most part, “no.”
Phil Buchanan asks why, despite frequently indicating the desire to do so, aren’t more funders helping their grantees to evaluate and improve their work? Buchanan evaluates the current landscape of funder support for this work by their grantees, and finds that pool is a small one.
Guest author Linda Wood, Senior Director of the Haas Leadership Initiative at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, responds to the finding from Nonprofit Challenges: What Foundations Can Do that the majority of nonprofits do not feel adequately supported by their foundation funders. Wood argues that foundations’ skepticism towards investing in leadership development is misplaced, and wonders if funders are providing the right type of support to meet specific needs.
Nonprofit leaders do not want help from their foundation funders with every challenge their organizations face, but would like more foundation help specifically in meeting the demand for their programs and services, using technology to improve their effectiveness, and developing their leadership skills. Mark Chaffin highlights another key finding from our research report Nonprofit Challenges: What Foundations Can Do.
Nonprofit leaders do not believe foundations are taking full advantage of their resources to help them address their challenges and would like their foundation funders to share knowledge of other nonprofits facing similar challenges. Mark Chaffin highlights these two key findings from our research report Nonprofit Challenges: What Foundations Can Do.
Guest author Jessica Bearman, of Bearman Consulting and Project Streamline, calls on grantmakers to seek candid feedback about the impact of their grantmaking practices on grantseekers’ organizations.