Insights & Perspectives Why Doing Good is Good Business TCC Group's CEO, Richard Mittenthal, is featured in the current edition of Profile Magazine, a publication that "identifies and promotes innovation in prominent American industries."
Insights & Perspectives Be Adaptive: Using Information to Adapt Programming (Stage 3) Part three of our four-part series on media evaluation examines distributing the content of a media campaign and how to track effectiveness.
Impact Stories Creating a Better World for Children Since it began grantmaking in St. Louis in 1998, Deaconess Foundation has envisioned a community that places a high priority on the well-being and healthy development of children and youth—especially the most vulnerable and least well-served. “It’s an attainable ideal—but only if the allocation of resources, benefits, and opportunities is…
Impact Stories Advancing Racial Equity in Public Education as the Central Grantmaking Focus Seeking to bring equity to the forefront of all its work, the Nellie Mae Educational Foundation heightened its commitment to eradicating disparities, pledging to challenge systemic barriers and more explicitly support the priorities of youth least well-served.
Impact Stories Moving the World Toward More Humane and Effective Drug Policies Since 2008, the Open Society Global Drug Policy Program (GDPP) has worked with governments, policymakers, and NGOs to transform prevailing drug policies from a punitive—and counterproductive—approach to one rooted in human rights, social justice, and public health.
Impact Stories Rooting Out Inequities and Racism in the Criminal Justice System Since its founding in 1958, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) has worked to ensure fairness within the criminal justice system and to strengthen its members’ capacity to safeguard fundamental constitutional rights. The group now projects—with clarity—its commitment to be a strong voice for redressing the systemic racism…
Insights & Perspectives The First Year of a New Presidency Moves Philanthropy to Action The speculation for most of us began on Wednesday morning, November 9, 2016. Regardless of political affiliation, the election win by a presidential candidate who promised dramatic changes in governing style and policies from the prior administration meant that grantmakers might have to rethink their current strategies and, quite possibly,…
Insights & Perspectives Equity as a Capacity How does an evaluator assess the uptick of equity when it is delivered via capacity-building trainings?
Insights & Perspectives Equity as a Leading Principle 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,…
Insights & Perspectives Nesting to Achieve Impact: Lessons for Family Funders from the Annie E. Casey Foundation (Published by the National Center for Family Philanthropy) Family funders are regularly seeking opportunities to amplify their impact in the communities in which they live, work, and serve. Although they may not always have the scale or scope of larger national foundations, all family funders can still draw many lessons…