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To highlight the current state of lean funder evaluation, this report provides an overview of the evaluation methods funders use most often. 

Learn key principles for supporting racial justice that you can apply to grantmaking and partnerships right now.

Learn about promising impact measurement practices and tools to help advance your foundation's and community's practice.

Family foundations offer some of the strongest values for philanthropic giving, and many of those values endure through generations of family involvement. What happens, though, when new generations want to alter the scope of family giving, or see different opportunities for focus areas?

A collection of sample documents related to Grantmaking, Monitoring & Evaluation.

This resources overviews changes in arts and culture funding over the past several decades to both revisit learnings and insights from prior arts funding research and to highlight what more recent trends may suggest about priorities for the field going forward.

Whether your work is regional, national, or global, the structure and approach that you use to activate local giving can have a big impact on your effectiveness.

What is evaluation? How can it help your organization? And how can you work more effectively with your evaluator? This handbook is designed to demystify evaluation and help you get the most out of evaluation for your organization. 

How do you put into place the tools and processes needed to get clear about and increasingly get stronger impact from your grantmaking program? 

Hear examples of how investing in social enterprise can create employment for those who faced barriers, provide needed products and services to underserved areas and offer innovative services that contribute to the development of sustainable local economies.

More than 10,000 Americans turn 65 each day. Is your community ready for the financial and social implications of this significant demographic shift?

This type of program would provide competitive reverse scholarships, helping recent college graduates pay off their student loan debt if they return to their local communities for work.