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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Each of these issues could signal that a more streamlined organizational structure is needed. It’s a structure that preserves accountability.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

Candid

In a 2022 survey, nearly 70% of respondents cited building measurement, evaluation, and learning capabilities as a critical area in which they would like to invest. Like other types of grantmakers, collaboratives seek to measure effectiveness and learn from feedback. Remember, though, that collaboratives also work across stakeholders.

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Nonprofit Board Dynamics: A Guide for Executive Directors

Bloomerang

To keep this crucial team effective, here’s a step-by-step guide crafted specifically for nonprofit leaders like you, using insights and tools from Bloomerang to ensure your board remains as dynamic and driven as the day they joined. The last word As an executive director, your role in shaping and maintaining an effective board is critical.

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What Are You Really Asking? A Checklist for Grantmakers

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In this blog post, we will share some insights and best practices from our recent webinar, Change Up Your Questions: Exploring and Shaping What You Ask Grantees and How You Ask Them , where Marshall Ginn of Capital Philanthropy discussed how to evaluate and improve your application questions. Is this question relevant?

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Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance 

Candid

I facilitated check-in meetings that fostered active engagement among board members, encouraging them to reflect on how their unique strengths could propel Candid toward its vision. In both cases, the genuine collaboration between board and staff necessary for the organization to adapt, innovate, and effectively serve its mission is lacking.

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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count. Letting grantees lead: What we’re learning from the BUILD evaluation. Center for Effective Philanthropy: Grantee and Applicant Perception Reports. Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible, harmful way to measure nonprofit effectiveness.