Foundations
Reflection Through Narrative
How international organizations gain insight, innovation, and internal alignment through story.
Tag: Grantmaking
Government
The Lean Startup Goes to Washington
Evidence-based policy, iteration, and innovation are making their way into government.
Foundations
Experimentation: A Shortcut to Innovation
Leading organizations are placing bets on action over rhetoric.
Philanthropy
Grantmaking, Public Policy…and Tums
Exemplary grantmakers follow evidence, not presumptions, and recognize that effective strategy requires transforming enough things, not everything.
Measuring Social Impact
Clear Measurement Counts
A commitment to impact evaluation is the mark of a nonprofit organization that takes its work seriously.
Philanthropy
Five Things Strategy Isn’t
The language, tools, processes, and practices of philanthropy have evolved steadily and dramatically, but strategy needs rescuing.
Philanthropy
Developing a Culture of Knowledge Management
The three types of data foundations need—and how they must use them.
Philanthropy
Creating a Smarter Philanthropic Marketplace
Most funders are not adequately tapping into existing data and knowledge to better inform their grantmaking.
Measuring Social Impact
Assessing Funders’ Performance: Five Easy Tools
Measuring impact is so tough that many funders give up, but there are some insightful and actionable tools for funders that aren’t daunting.
Philanthropy
The Re-Emerging Art of Funding Innovation
A growing number of foundations are reintroducing risk-taking into their processes and portfolios as one way to create breakthrough change.