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Framing the Issue
Basic principles and practices can inform efforts to monitor performance, track progress, and assess the impact of foundation strategies, initiatives, and grants.
Tag: Strategic Planning
Measuring Social Impact
A Focus on Culture
How the Ford Foundation is engaging its global staff in building a shared culture of results.
Measuring Social Impact
Assessing One’s Own Performance
What the Irvine Foundation has learned over the past six years about performance assessment.
Board Governance
Social Sector Peer Evaluation: A Proposal
Imagine a new nonprofit board governance practice where organizations engaged peers to assess their work.
Economic Development
A Fresh Take on Building Prosperous Cities
Local government strategic planning is needed to move cities forward at the necessary rate of reform.
Nonprofit Management
The Role of Brand in the Nonprofit Sector
More nonprofits are managing their brands to create greater impact and organizational cohesion.
Nonprofit Management
Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work
This follow-up on the popular "Collective Impact" article provides updated, in-depth guidance.
Foundations
Five Ways to Ensure That Your Strategy Falls Short
Why do so many foundation and nonprofit strategies go amiss?
Nonprofit Management
Five Ways to Navigate the Fiscal Crisis
How human services nonprofits can stay afloat and advance their missions during a time of government cutbacks.
Fundraising
Finding Your Funding Model
Four guidelines provide a road map for leaders to identify and develop the right funding model for their organization.