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9 March 2010
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Better together? A user’s guide to funding advocacy coalitions
David Devlin-Foltz

Better together? A user’s guide to funding advocacy coalitions

David Devlin-Foltz
1 March 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

Caroline Hartnell, editor of Alliance, asked me to suggest some guidelines for funding advocacy coalitions, drawing on our work as planning and evaluation advisers to foundations and their advocacy grantees – who often work through coalitions of groups that join forces to promote policy changes. How can funders help such advocacy coalitions reach their potential? How can they help their advocacy grantees be ‘better together’? And how can they avoid doing harm? Click here to read ...


Charity Navigator measures itself
Ken Berger

Charity Navigator measures itself

Ken Berger and Robert Penna
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

When Ken Berger spoke at the Valuing Impact conference in London last May, he caused quite a stir by suggesting that a one-dimensional focus on non-profit finances, if not supplemented by other information, can lead a donor/funder to make the wrong decision about which organization to support and that an overemphasis on overheads is misleading. The surprise was due to the fact that many have criticized Charity Navigator in the past for precisely that. Click here to read ...


The Art of Giving: Where the soul meets a business plan by Charles Bronfman and Jeffrey Solomon

The Art of Giving: Where the soul meets a business plan by Charles Bronfman and Jeffrey Solomon

Steven Burkeman
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

The basis of this book raises a fascinating issue, perhaps best encapsulated by its subtitle – ‘where the soul meets a business plan’. As an individual, I reserve the right to respond emotionally when I encounter immediate need. As a grantmaker in an institutional context, I have the opportunity to sit down and think, to research and analyse alongside others, and then to take a decision that, though it may be rooted in an emotional commitment, is tempered by this more rational process. Click here to read ...


Making small grants: where to start

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

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Small grants fill a niche
Bill Belding

Small grants fill a niche

Bill Belding
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

With two-thirds of the 70,000 US private foundations having assets of less than $1 million, what value can small foundations bring to international philanthropy? In 2009 the Association of Small Foundations launched an international programme to learn from and educate our members on ways to give globally. We found that small grants to international causes can have a big impact. They also promote the diversity of actors and ideas working in developing countries. Small foundations fill a special niche – and they come with more than money. Click here to read ...


Making metrics work for small grantmakers
Maya Ajmera

Making metrics work for small grantmakers

Maya Ajmera and Victoria Dunning
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

The difficulty and expense of measuring the impact of small grants is often seen as a drawback to making such grants at all. Can measurement systems be developed that do not overburden grantees and whose costs are not totally disproportionate to the size of the grants? The Global Fund for Children (GFC), a global grassroots grantmaker and one of a growing number of intermediary grantmakers, has recently developed a set of metrics to better measure and assess its impact. Their experience may begin to answer this question. Click here to read ...


Interview - Jacqueline Delia-Brémond
Jacqueline Delia-Brémond

Interview - Jacqueline Delia-Brémond

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

Fondation Ensemble was set up in December 2004 with the dual aim of fighting poverty and protecting the environment. Since then, it has been involved in more than 100 projects around the world, mostly providing funding of between €150,000 and €300,000 on a three-year basis. In 2008, the foundation set up a micro-grants fund dedicated to funding smaller projects with grants of between €3,000 and €30,000. Caroline Hartnell spoke to co-founder Jacqueline Delia-Brémond about why this programme was set up and how it is working. Click here to read ...


Interview - Marion Rockefeller Weber
Marion Rockefeller Weber

Interview - Marion Rockefeller Weber

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

‘May the rivers of wealth be undammed and flow freely over the earth. May the gifts move through increased hands until all people experience the abundance of life.’ These words appear on the home page of www.flowfunding.org, initiated by Marion Rockefeller Weber. Grand-daughter of J D Rockefeller, Jr and daughter of Laurance S Rockefeller, Marion Weber was born into philanthropy but she has taken a unique path, as she explained to Chet Tchozewski. Click here to read ...


Giving more so women can do more
Nicky McIntyre

Giving more so women can do more

Nicky McIntyre and Annie Hillar
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

After 25 years of funding women’s human rights organizations throughout the world, Mama Cash recently launched its new grantmaking strategy. The key changes from our work in the past are a switch from a regional to an issues-based approach, giving longer-term and larger grants, and giving fewer grants. By focusing on a smaller pool of groups, we hope to gain a deeper understanding of the issues they are addressing, and to better assist our grantees to create and take opportunities to learn, grow, and effectively defend and advance women’s and girls’ rights. Click here to read ...


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