News from TCC Group

April eNews

Joining Forces:

Leveraging the Strengths of Nonprofit Networks

For over 10 years, TCC Group has worked on the front lines of the nonprofit capacity-building movement, designing, implementing, and evaluating numerous initiatives, including many projects for associations and networks.

Recently, TCC helped build the evaluation capacity of EnvironMentors, a program that prepares high school students from underrepresented backgrounds for college degrees in environmental science. TCC assisted eight chapters of the organization in identifying measures of success and helped EnvironMentors take its programs to scale. We also analyzed how financial support at universities, high schools, and among donors could be replicated across sites. Read more about the lessons learned from our work with nonprofit networks and associations here.

Building Arts Organizations that Build Audiences

Last year, TCC Group worked with The Wallace Foundation to design the content for their conference, "Building Audiences: Sustaining What Works." This event identified the most effective methods for growing audiences and explored strategies to support those practices. Wallace brought together leadership, programmatic, and marketing representatives from the 54 recipients of the Wallace Excellence Awards, a grant program to help build participation in the arts.

This was the third grantee conference that TCC planned with the foundation, collaborating with researchers and experts in nonprofit management, marketing, and communications. Focusing on sustainability, participants worked together to share success stories and inform future audience-building efforts. A new report from the conference found that ongoing learning and adaptation are crucial to the process of developing audiences. Read the report here.

Striking the Ideal Humanistic-Technocratic Balance in Grantmaking

Join Senior Partner Paul Connolly for a CEO Salon Conversation at the Council on Foundation's annual conference on April 30 in Los Angeles. Along with Clara Miller of The F.B. Heron Foundation and Claire Peeps of The Durfee Foundation Paul will discuss understanding, articulating, and instilling the desired blend of humanistic and technocratic practices in a foundation's organizational culture. Register for the conference here.

The Role of Leadership and Culture in Corporate Citizenship

In order to build robust corporate citizenship and community involvement initiatives, there must be an intentional investment in a company's culture. Only then can a firm move toward with the development of strong programs and implement them in a way that will achieve significant impact. TCC Group Partner and Director of Corporate Services Thomas Knowlton will present a webinar for corporate funders hosted by the Ohio Grantmakers Forum on May 2. This webinar, "The Role of Leadership and Culture in Corporate Citizenship," will explore:

Core issues related to successful corporate citizenship
Latest trends in the field
Relevant real world examples

The webinar is free to OGF members. Register here.

What Works with Organizational Capacity Building?

As we learn more about what it takes to support effective organizations, long-standing assumptions about capacity building are being challenged. Over the past 12 years, TCC Group has designed, implemented, managed, and evaluated more 70 capacity-building initiatives. Through our work, we have gathered a significant amount of data and research that shed light on what works when it comes to nonprofit organizational learning. TCC Group Senior Partner Peter York will present the keynote speech on capacity building at the Arizona Evaluation Network's Spring Conference on May 9. Find more information here.

About TCC Group

Our mission is to develop strategies and programs that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations, philanthropies, and corporate community involvement programs to achieve social impact.

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