This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Ellen LaPointe, President, and CEO of Northern California Grantmakers, reflects on the various lessons she has learned over the years about leadership in philanthropy. • How are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Here are four takeaways about how best to support youth action from the Childhood, Gender, and Youth on the Move conference in Tijuana, Mexico last week. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our future, and that of Silicon Valley’s, will be determined by our community’s voter turnout in 2020. The quality of our schools, affordability of our housing, abundance of our open…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. True innovation is not always about some great new idea. It often involves taking what we know and applying it to the real world, perhaps in some new way or…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Louise Lief provides some principles and approaches for how philanthropy can help build better data justice that includes community input to influence social change. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Investing in the leadership of young women of color is a strong bet for our country’s future. Our communities will be stronger, our systems will be stronger, and our democracy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our intent in this publication is to offer some simple, pragmatic approaches to evaluation. The most effective evaluation efforts are tailored to the size, scale, and complexity of the initiative…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I was listening to NPR’s On Point with Sacha Pfeiffer last month on innovation. Her guest was Mark Stevenson, a U.K.-based futurist who caught my attention by saying he doesn’t…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the most exciting elements of a ramp up in giving or assets is the opportunity to build a grant making strategy that can leverage your philanthropic dollars in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This collection of articles from The Philanthropy Initiative explores best practices in strategic giving. Reconciling “giving smart” and “giving from the heart” Housed at TPI’s Center for Global Philanthropy, New England…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Three tenets critical to a thoughtful and productive approach: Keep evaluations practical and relevant. What do you need to or want to know, based on how you will use the information?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many of us are familiar with the Frederick Douglass quote “Power concedes nothing without demand…” But just before that famous line, Douglass uttered the following in his speech entitled “If…