Posts tagged Philanthropy
No ifs or buts: Public foundation leaders’ perspectives on evaluation

Philanthropic foundations provide grants to all sorts of nonprofit organisations to help them achieve their mission. To do this, management within these philanthropic foundations engage in various evaluation processes, such as evaluating a nonprofit organisation’s grant application. But what exactly are they evaluating, why are they evaluating it, and what do they think about evaluation? Little is known about foundation leaders’ perceptions on evaluation or what influences those perspectives; so, we set out to change that.

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Understanding place in Australian philanthropic foundations

Place-based giving is one factor that shapes and is shaped by a foundation’s identity and felt sense of responsibility to place, and multiple interpretations, dimensions, and confluences of place within public foundations are recognized. Conceptions of place may be a primary or secondary factor in decision-making processes and agenda and go far beyond geographic in nature.

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