Thank you for this great article. At Partners for Democratic Change we have found similar lessons from our 25 years experience investing in leaders to be change agents throughout the world. We conducted an in-depth evaluation of our experience in 19 countries that you can check out here:
Change making requires a reframing of so many things in grantmaking—timing, intensity, depth, letting go and how we work with our partners, whomever they may be. At the Greater New Orleans Foundation we’ve been blending organizational capacity building, including leadership development, with some of our more traditional grantmaking efforts and have seen results and change, albeit modest. Though as you said so well, CHANGE takes time and the adage, you have to go slow first to go fast later, applies if we want to change anything. Thanks for this insightful look into changing philanthropy and our practices.
Julia: Thank you for sharing the evaluation insights from Partners for Democratic Change—indeed, these strategies traverse borders very well.
Joann: Great to learn about the efforts to integrate leadership and other tools to traditional grantmaking to bolster the impact of your community partners. The “irons in the fire” metaphor applies: each partnership marinates and progresses in unique ways—with different textures and spices—and over time, bears different (and rewarding) impact and results.
Its great of you to share your valuable experience here about supporting Non profiting leadership. I agree with you that grants are vital if we plan to expand our reach by engaging local media and leadership. It also makes it attractive so that people dont shy away from contributing.
I appreciate the comment, Linda. Indeed, if more funders took sensible, measured steps to support the leadership and social media capacity of selected grantees, this would provide a huge bolster to their impact.
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BY Julia Roig
ON December 3, 2014 09:02 PM
Thank you for this great article. At Partners for Democratic Change we have found similar lessons from our 25 years experience investing in leaders to be change agents throughout the world. We conducted an in-depth evaluation of our experience in 19 countries that you can check out here:
http://www.partnersglobal.org/news/evaluation-building-sustainable-investment-in-local-capacity-for-democracy-and-peace
BY Joann M Ricci
ON December 4, 2014 09:27 AM
Change making requires a reframing of so many things in grantmaking—timing, intensity, depth, letting go and how we work with our partners, whomever they may be. At the Greater New Orleans Foundation we’ve been blending organizational capacity building, including leadership development, with some of our more traditional grantmaking efforts and have seen results and change, albeit modest. Though as you said so well, CHANGE takes time and the adage, you have to go slow first to go fast later, applies if we want to change anything. Thanks for this insightful look into changing philanthropy and our practices.
BY Daniel Lee
ON December 4, 2014 01:59 PM
Julia: Thank you for sharing the evaluation insights from Partners for Democratic Change—indeed, these strategies traverse borders very well.
Joann: Great to learn about the efforts to integrate leadership and other tools to traditional grantmaking to bolster the impact of your community partners. The “irons in the fire” metaphor applies: each partnership marinates and progresses in unique ways—with different textures and spices—and over time, bears different (and rewarding) impact and results.
BY Musa King
ON December 6, 2014 10:01 PM
Capacity building initiatives improve the effectiveness of non profits
BY Linda Simmons
ON February 23, 2015 04:00 AM
Its great of you to share your valuable experience here about supporting Non profiting leadership. I agree with you that grants are vital if we plan to expand our reach by engaging local media and leadership. It also makes it attractive so that people dont shy away from contributing.
BY Daniel Lee
ON February 23, 2015 09:38 AM
I appreciate the comment, Linda. Indeed, if more funders took sensible, measured steps to support the leadership and social media capacity of selected grantees, this would provide a huge bolster to their impact.