How Strong Is My Corporate Citizenship Portfolio? How to Assess to Align Programs and Maximize Impact—A Webinar December 20, 2018 By Claire Schultz Companies dedicate numerous resources to identify issues that are important to their stakeholders, but many companies develop program portfolios that don’t meet stakeholder expectations or fully support the goals of the company. In many cases, community program goals are not fully developed, and the programs provide minimal value to the company’s efforts to meet stakeholder expectations. … Continued
Arts Funding at Twenty-Five September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the first Arts Funding benchmark study, Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) commissioned arts philanthropy researcher Steven Lawrence to prepare a reflection on changes in arts and culture funding over the past twenty-five years. Released in the Winter 2018 GIA Reader, “Arts Funding at Twenty-Five: What Data … Continued
Telling Your CSR Impact Story with a Program Outcomes Framework September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin Companies are facing increasing pressure to report on the impact and results of their various corporate citizenship programs, not only to customers and advocacy groups but also to senior leaders and employees. Yet programs focusing on community and social issues may not have a framework that adequately captures and communicates their measures of success. As … Continued
Strategic Planning: Is Your Board Ready? September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin When considering whether to embark on a strategic planning project, there are a number of questions for an organization to consider. Have you done planning previously and, if so, how did it turn out? Will you do this yourselves or might you need an outside consultant? If the latter, do you have a budget? By … Continued
Strengthening Your CSR Impact Story with a Program Outcomes Framework September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin Companies are tackling numerous issues through their corporate citizenship programs, and they often struggle to tell a coherent CSR Impact story about their achievements. In many cases, that story is even more difficult to communicate due to unclear goals, and lack of a strategic approach to capturing the information necessary to tell a CSR Impact … Continued
Effective Strategies for Supporting Public Policy Advocacy Campaigns September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin This webinar will help our private foundation members understand the rules for how they can participate in public policy advocacy. You will have a chance to interact with researchers from TCC documenting lessons from public policy advocacy campaigns supported by philanthropy. Consider how your foundation can add value to public policy advocacy and stay within … Continued
Disrupting the Current Capacity Building Landscape September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin To solve the complex social sector challenges facing us today, we are evolving from discreet organizations attempting to achieve individual missions into communities willing to explore a more effective way to build our capacity to make change. This ecosystem approach tends to “disrupt” the traditional ways we have addressed the “who”, the “what,” and the … Continued
Smarter Grantmaking Starts Here – Session 4 September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin Presenters Barbara Alford, President, Wiregrass Foundation Julie Simpson, Director, Nonprofit Strategy & Capacity Building, TCC Group Host Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Remote Learning Series
How Funders can Effectively Support Volunteer-led Movements September 27, 2017 By Lindsay Emery How can funders effectively support volunteers in movement building? This interactive session examines how volunteers and organizations can work together as part of a movement, highlighting a recent collaboration between Wikimedia Foundation and TCC Group. Speakers will illustrate what they have learned about how funders can work effectively as part of a shared-ownership movement, exploring … Continued
Fostering a Learning Culture in Family Philanthropy September 27, 2017 By Lindsay Emery Family foundations can be isolated institutions. Too often, trustees don’t have access nor use information that would help them to do their jobs better—information about the communities they serve, the issues they are working to support, the other key stakeholders who support these same issues, and the ways to effectively govern. Family foundation trustees are … Continued
Assessing the Impact September 27, 2017 By Marketing Admin Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation & Learning at TCC Group, will discuss our approaches to assessment and evaluation with nonprofit capacity building initiatives. Host Grantmakers for Effective Organizations – Capacity Building Champions
The Secret to Building Fundraising Capacity September 25, 2017 By Marketing Admin When you ask any nonprofit what it needs most, you will ALWAYS get the same answer…money. But is it really that cut and dried? The secret to successful fundraising actually lies in an organization’s ability to convey clearly WHAT it is raising money for, WHY it remains relevant in the social sector as a whole, … Continued
CCAT New Facilitator Training Part 2 September 25, 2017 By Marketing Admin The second webinar will continue the discussion of CCAT theory and best practices for facilitating the CCAT, and it includes an in-depth Q&A session. To learn more about the CCAT and becoming a CCAT facilitator, visit the CCAT Help Desk.
CCAT New Facilitator Training Part 1 September 25, 2017 By Marketing Admin In the first of this two-part training session, TCC Group will lead attendees through a discussion of CCAT theory, best practices for facilitating the CCAT, and an in-depth Q&A session. To learn more about the CCAT and how to become a CCAT facilitator, visit the CCAT Help Desk.
How Funders can Effectively Support Volunteer-led Movements September 25, 2017 By Lindsay Emery How can funders effectively support volunteers in movement building? This interactive session is all about how volunteers and organizations can work together as part of a movement. TCC Group and the Wikimedia Foundation will share their recent collaboration, showcasing what they’ve learned about how funders can effectively work as part of a shared-ownership movement. We … Continued