Localization Part 3: Whose Story Is It? Practices for Using a Localization Approach to Share and Interpret Evaluation Findings January 30, 2024 By Judy Ney Crucial to using a localization approach (i.e., integrating the voices of those who are most affected by the social or environmental challenges being addressed) is a mindset and a belief that everyone who touches a program or intervention brings skills to the table that can contribute to a successful evaluation. We are all taking in … Continued
How Can We Be Better Funders? Let’s Do the Homework May 26, 2021 By Claire Schultz TCC Group Senior Philanthropy Consultant Maritza Guzmán shares tips for how funders can do their part to minimize the financial burden on the nonprofits they seek to work with.
The Evaluator as Facilitator: Considerations for Good Facilitation Practice February 10, 2021 By Claire Schultz TCC Group Evaluation Consultant Ijeoma Ezeofor shares a list of best practices and resources for evaluators looking to improve their facilitation skills.
A Nonprofit Balancing Act: The Precipice or Solid Ground? November 11, 2020 By Claire Schultz The crisis facing the nonprofit sector in 2020 and beyond has prompted funders to think critically about how to better support the full cost of service delivery, and more effectively deploy financial capital to build strong and resilient organizations.
Leading with Values: How Communicating Your Organization’s Values Will Help You Live Them October 27, 2020 By Claire Schultz Within the social sector, nonprofit and philanthropic leaders should live and model their organizational values, using them to guide their organization; they must be communicated clearly, credibly, and consistently to all stakeholders, both within and outside the organization.
Relational Capacity: Why Does Working Together Feel So Damn Hard? June 16, 2022 By Claire Schultz Discover the eight capacity areas nonprofits need to effectively build and leverage relationships with peers, constituents, funders, and businesses in their communities.
Strengthening Nonprofits in the Time of COVID-19: Part One August 27, 2020 By Claire Schultz Part one of our three-part series focuses on the ways grantees must prioritize strength-building to remain resilient and sustainable.
Offering the CCAT® to Your Grantees September 26, 2016 By Claire Schultz Strengthen and support your nonprofit partners. Through TCC’s guidance, we have been able to demonstrate to our Board that our nonprofits are working better, smarter; they’re asking the right questions and finding their own solutions… We’ve also proven to nonprofits through TCC’s structure that we will help them to design a program that works for … Continued
CCAT® Facilitator Certification Program February 22, 2022 By Claire Schultz Want to add expert interpretation of TCC Group’s Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT)® to your consulting toolkit? TCC Group has trained hundreds of nonprofit consultants around the world in using the CCAT to lead change in organizations. Certified CCAT Facilitators provide expert guidance to nonprofit leaders to translate assessment results into meaningful organizational improvement. Register … Continued
How Does the CCAT® Work? September 26, 2016 By Claire Schultz Built on decades of experience and research in capacity building, the Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT) measures a nonprofit’s effectiveness in four key ways.
COVID-19: Questions Nonprofit Leaders Should Be Asking Right Now April 7, 2020 By Claire Schultz In times of crisis, taking a moment to quickly assess and clarify core strategies can help your organization respond nimbly and effectively.
Be Adaptive: Using Information to Adapt Programming (Stage 3) January 9, 2020 By Claire Schultz Part three of our four-part series on media evaluation examines distributing the content of a media campaign and how to track effectiveness.
Equity as a Capacity February 25, 2019 By Claire Schultz How does an evaluator assess the uptick of equity when it is delivered via capacity-building trainings?
Equity as a Leading Principle February 11, 2019 By Claire Schultz This is Part One of our five-part series titled, “Equity and Evaluation: Models of How Equity Can and Does Impact Evaluation.” The subsequent four parts will be released over the next two months (updated February 11, 2019). The philanthropic and nonprofit fields, and organizations and individuals serving those fields, have shown an increasing focus … Continued
What makes the CCAT® unique? September 26, 2016 By Marketing Admin The CCAT is a unique type of capacity assessment tool that forms an integral part of the capacity building services offered by TCC Group. Our core capacity assessment model was developed over decades of research and evaluation of capacity building initiatives in the non-profit sector. In addition to your organization’s capacity scores, the CCAT determines … Continued