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Making Values Work for Teams

September 2018 | The Giving Practice

reflective-practicesCross-posted from Philanthropy's Reflective Practices. Our first interview about reflective practices in group work is with Brenda Solorzano, who is the CEO of the new Headwaters Foundation in Western Montana. So many of our readers have asked how do you reflect when your staff is small and multi-tasking all the time or when the board is just past start-up stage and anxious to move from planning to action or a new CEO has just arrived and feels the need to hit the ground running? Brenda and Headwaters offers us a chance to answer all these questions at once. 
Making Values Work for Teams

Pretty Good Tool: Let’s Talk About Impact Investing

September 2018 | The Giving Practice

Does your organization need to earn more about impact investing? This Pretty Good Tool can help you and your trustees explore the concept of impact investing.

Philanthropy's Reflective Practices

June 2018 | The Giving Practice

In this guide, you will find stories about using four methods of reflective practice that can help you build what you bring to advancing change inside your foundation, with your grantees and other partners.
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Pretty Good Tool: Talking About Evolutions

May 2018 | The Giving Practice

Everything is in process. But our ways of thinking about organizational development often don’t account for that. This tool helps you think about where you have been and where you are headed by examining the ongoing change of your organization, team, project, strategy or field.

Four Practices to Help You Work (and Sleep) Better

April 2018 | The Giving Practice

What keeps you up at night?  Our hunch, based on interviews with dozens of skilled philanthropy practitioners, is that it’s not the “what” of your work. You care deeply about a place, a field or an issue. You work hard to stay on top of content knowledge. You network to learn from others. It...
Four Practices to Help You Work (and Sleep) Better

Effective Philanthropy is Heart Work and Hard Work

February 2018 | The Giving Practice

As a Senior Advisor and Vice President at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Dr. Gail C. Christopher led many initiatives that were not without controversy and difficult conversations. She launched the Foundation’s breastfeeding program as a health equity strategy for women and children...
Effective Philanthropy is Heart Work and Hard Work

Pretty Good Tool: Foundation Start-Up Checklist

December 2017 | The Giving Practice

Starting a new foundation? Going through a period of growth that is significantly changing your foundation? This tool can help you think through the different elements needed to get you up and running.

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