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Assessing the How of Grantmaking

Publication date: 
10/2013
Grantmaking includes three primary components: what, who, and how. As grantmakers, most of us pay attention to what we fund—grantmaking strategy and impact—and who we fund—the grantees we support. But what about how we fund? The Grants Managers Network contends that grantmakers should pay equal attention to how grants are made—evaluating and continually improving the practices used to make grants. This report from Grants Managers Network walks funders through the five core questions and presents key concepts for evaluating and measuring the data you already have access to.
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Evaluation

The Urgency of Now: Foundations’ Role in Ending Racial Inequity

Publication date: 
04/2014
This Foundation Review article explores the multiple approaches that foundations can use to advance racial equity, focusing on a specific set of approaches used by the Minnesota-based Northwest Area Foundation. The article also gauges the depth of the challenge that communities face in racial disparities, the long history of racialization of institutions and systems, and the evolution of the role of philanthropy in addressing poverty.

Vision, Values and Voice: A Social Justice Communications Toolkit

Publication date: 
12/2013
The Opportunity Agenda, launched in 2006 with the mission of building the national will to expand opportunity in America, created the Vision, Values and Voice toolkit to help social justice communications campaigns tap into the comic book superhero zeitgeist to advance its messaging.

Resources from Why Summer Matters: Challenge & Opportunity in Summer Learning for Children & Youth

Publication date: 
03/2013
The impact of summer learning loss on young people’s academic achievement is astounding. Research from Johns Hopkins University has shown that two-thirds of the achievement gap between low-income and middle income 9th graders is attributed to the differences in their summer learning experiences in elementary school. Despite this shocking fact, there hasn’t been clear direction about solutions. This briefing presented compelling new research about quality-summer programming in California that is having a measurable impact on students' achievement.

Resources from the 2013 California Budget Project Analysis

Publication date: 
02/2013
For more than a decade, Northern California Grantmakers has partnered with the California Budget Project to inform members about the annual budgets that impact underserved communities and grantees they serve.

Resources from NCG's Communications Series Pt 2: How Foundations Effectively Work with Media for Social Impact

Publication date: 
09/2012
How Foundations Can Effectively Work With Media for Social Impact is part of NCG's 2012 Communications Series. Developed and presented in partnership with The Communications Network , this series has been designed to both build the capacity of program staff to make effective use of communications strategies and to promote a greater awareness within foundations of how communications contribute to advancement of both program goals and mission.
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Resources from A Conversation with D5: Diversity in Philanthropy in All Dimensions

Publication date: 
09/2012
D5 was created to help foundations achieve greater impact in an increasingly diverse world. Since 2010, more than a dozen organizations, with connections to thousands of foundations, have come together through the D5 coalition to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by 2015. In this fourth and final program in NCG’s 2012 Diversity Series, funders will learn how D5 is working to make philanthropy genuinely inclusive of all diverse communities— racial and ethnic communities, LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities.

Vision and Voice: The Role of Leadership and Dialogue in Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Publication date: 
05/2014
In this 2014 report, funded by the D5 Coalitio n, explored the role of leadership in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in philanthropy. The participatory research project engaged high-level executives in a peer learning network, and studied additional foundations to identify the practices, barriers, and organizational cultures that support diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Resources from NCG's 2013 Corporate Philanthropy Institute

Publication date: 
10/2013
This year's Corporate Philanthropy Institute (CPI) expanded on the discussion we started last year about social innovation. Diving deeper, the CPI focused on how innovative approaches and ideas are playing out in the "real world" of corporate philanthropy, social responsibility, and corporate citizenship.

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