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Strategic Philanthropy: Guide to Evaluation (Credit Suisse & Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors)
PerformWell is a collaborative effort initiated by Urban Institute, Child Trends, and Social Solutions. PerformWell provides measurement tools and practical knowledge that human services professionals can use to manage their programs' day-to-day performance. Information in PerformWell leverages research-based findings that have been synthesized and simplified by experts in the field. By providing information and tools to measure program quality and outcomes, PerformWell helps human services practitioners deliver more effective social programs. |
For the 21st Century, a Network of Beneficial Philanthropy and Corporate Citizenship Doug Guthrie, Dean of the George Washington University School of Business, talks in Forbes about the need for "mutually beneficial philanthropy" in which corporations, government and nonprofit organizations work together to "harvest capital, remake policy and employ strategies for the public good."
Corporate Philanthropy: The New Paradigm: Volunteerism. Competence. Results Corporate philanthropy, social innovation, and corporate citizenship are no longer merely buzzwords for companies. Giving back to the community has now established itself within corporate DNA. To get a handle on how companies are approaching corporate social responsibility (CSR), why they do it, what they perceive the benefits are, and how they are allocating their resources, Forbes Insights surveyed top-level management at consumer, financial services, technology, energy, and healthcare companies. In addition, this report spotlights CSR programs at three companies-Hewlett-Packard, Eli Lilly, and MasterCard-to showcase the way three industry leaders are engaging this issue. |
| Key Facts on Family Foundations America's family foundations contributed more than $20 billion in 2010 to organizations and people working for the public good, but total giving did not reach its pre-recession peak of $21 billion in 2008. According to the Foundation Center's latest edition of Key Facts on Family Foundations, the 1.1 percent increase in family foundation giving between 2009 and 2010 marks a reversal of the previous year's 3.4 percent decline. |
A Count for Quality: Child Care Center Directors on Rating and Improvement Systems, a report from the National Women's Law Center and the Center for Law and Social Policy, identifies the kinds of multi-stakeholder cooperation and efforts necessary to raise the quality of child care across early childhood education programs....(more).
A Stronger Nation Through Higher Education (Lumina Foundation) |
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A New Tool for Scaling Impact: How Social Impact Bonds Can Mobilize Private Capital to Advance Social Good A new report from Social Finance suggests that financing of early intervention programs through social impact bonds that are repaid only if outcomes improve could, in the long run, help many more people than are currently reached through traditional government contracts and philanthropy.... More.
New Study by GEO and TCC Group Reveals Important Trends in Grantmaking Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) announced the release of a comprehensive study of philanthropic practices in the United States. Conducted by TCC Group, this national survey identified and examined those trends in grantmaking that have the greatest effect on nonprofit success.
A Decade of Outcome-Oriented Philanthropy The outgoing president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation reflects on the growing importance of strategic philanthropy over the last decade and its prospects for the future.
Is Grantmaking Getting Smarter? GEO recently released a field wide survey of 755 staffed grantmaking foundations in the U.S., conducted by TCC Group. In light of the global economic downturn, it builds on a similar study conducted in 2008 to highlight some of the shifts in grantmaking and what they mean for supporting resilience in the nonprofit sector.
Diminishing Dollars: The Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on the Field of Social Justice Philanthropy finds that a small but important subset of grantmakers - those who work on issues ranging from human rights to environmental justice - has been disproportionately impacted by the global financial crisis and their recovery remains in jeopardy. The report examines historical trends, describes strategies used by foundations to cope with depleted assets, and presents projections through 2015.
Foundation Funding for Hispanics/Latinos in the United States and for Latin America finds that over the past decade foundation giving explicitly designated to benefit Hispanics and Latinos has remained virtually unchanged, even as the Hispanic population in the U.S. has grown significantly over the same period. The first study of its kind, the report examines foundation giving in the United States by funder type, issue area, geographic area, and type of support, and in Latin America by issue area.
Impact Capital Measurement: Approaches to Measuring the Social Impact of Program-Related Investments, a new report by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, uses examples from five foundations to help identify, analyze and understand promising approaches to measuring the social impact of PRIs.
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