Webinars

Effective Family Foundations

TCC Group Senior Consultant and family foundation trustee Ashley Blanchard and Emily Tow Jackson, Executive Director of the Tow Foundation examine how and why family foundations can become more focused in their grantmaking.

Strategic Planning for Foundations

Senior Vice President Paul Connolly explores how strategic planning enables a foundation to devise program strategy, build organizational capacity, and create a framework for performance assessment.

Smarter Outsourcing for Grantmakers

This webinar explores which funders are outsourcing, the functions that can best be farmed out, and how can funders delegate the work most effectively.

Leadership and Organizational Culture

TCC Group consultants Bonnie Mazza and Ana Ramos-Hernandez focus on the importance of organizational culture and leadership's role in shaping it. Attendees learn why organizational culture makes a difference in building an effective organization; the roles of the Executive Director and the board in determining an organization's culture; and skills and tools that participants can use to begin to build the culture they'd like to see in their own organizations.

Advocacy Capacity: A Short-term Indicator for Success

How can an organization or funder know if they are on track to accomplish advocacy objectives? Organizations can establish and track various milestones that indicate progress. One additional measure of likely advocacy success is advocacy capacity. This webinar describes the critical capacities associated with policy and advocacy work, derived from research and evaluations and will help participants better understand what to look for regarding organizational capacity for conducting advocacy activities.

Understanding the Sustainability Formula

TCC Group's Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Peter York highlights what determines a nonprofit's sustainability. He discusses the roles leadership, adaptability and program capacity play in an organization's success, and provides capacity-building recommendations for nonprofits to stay strong in the shifting economy.

Leading in Difficult Times Nonprofit Webinar

Even in good times, nonprofit leaders must make tough decisions, and many struggle with how to do so in a way that will protect their organization's best interests. How can the decisions we make today, difficult though they might be, help us in our efforts to preserve the mission and vision of our organizations and prepare us to emerge even stronger? This webinar provides a specific focus on the role of the Board during challenging times. TCC Vice President Shelly Kessler and Consultant Bonnie Mazza discuss strategies for sustainability and share lessons learned.

What is Core? Strategies to Help Nonprofit Leaders Make Decisions

Even in the best of times, nonprofit leaders are called upon to make tough decisions, and many struggle with how to do so in a way that will protect their organization's best interests. For most of us, 2009 is not "the best of times." Every day, nonprofit executives and board members are choosing between the rock and the hard place. How can the decisions we make today, difficult though they might be, help us in our efforts to preserve the mission and vision of our organizations, and even prepare us to emerge stronger? Led by Anne Sherman, Associate Director, and Ana Ramos-Hernandez, Consultant, this webinar discusses tools to help leaders determine "what is core," even in the most challenging of times.

Creative Strategies for Limited Resources

Even before the economic downturn, corporate funders were under pressure to "do more with less." During this webinar led by TCC's Corporate practice, TCC outlines strategies to prioritize and focus your efforts, dollars, and resources. By defining and staying true to your organization's company's core strengths and identity, you can rethink your "portfolio of programs" to build relationships with stakeholders and meet reduced budgets without losing your desired impact. TCC also provides ideas and concepts for building efficiencies that may be needed during staff reductions.