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We are always learning through our work, and we seek to accelerate change more broadly by sharing our frameworks, approaches, and lessons learned.

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When the Best Offense is a Good Defense


2019

We talked to advocates and funders to better understand how they think about advocacy on the defense. We wanted to understand whether it was a distinct category of work and the degree to which there were useful frameworks and tools for evaluating it.

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Tools
2021

The questions in this fillable worksheet are designed to help program staff who believe they are supporting network development as part of their philanthropic approach, to think through key assumptions and elements of the work, build team alignment, and strengthen their ability to measure, learn about, and communicate progress. The brief on Going Deeper: Supporting a Network (a supplement to Not Always Movements: Multiple Strategies to Advance Large Scale Social Change) provides additional resources and related content that might be helpful to teams as they work through the following questions.

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Tools
2021

The questions in this fillable worksheet are designed to help program staff who believe they are supporting uptake of practices as part of their philanthropic approach, to think through key assumptions and elements of the work, build team alignment, and strengthen their ability to measure, learn about, and communicate progress. The brief on Going Deeper: Promoting Uptake of Practices (a supplement to Not Always Movements: Multiple Strategies to Advance Large Scale Social Change) provides additional resources and related content that might be helpful to teams as they work through the following questions.

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Briefs / Reports
2020

This landscape was conducted on behalf of the Impact-Driven Philanthropy Collaborative. It is meant to provide the field with a snapshot of the organizations and offerings available to educate high-net-worth donors and the issues/trends facing organizations today.

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Briefs / Reports
2020

In this companion piece to “Not Always Movements: Multiple Strategies to Advance Large-Scale Social Change”, we dive a little deeper into building fields. We outline some key theories and frameworks that underlie this approach, outcomes to look for, considerations regarding equity, and guidance on measurement and learning along the way. It is intended as a bite-sized introduction to key concepts around field building, to support further exploration and engagement.

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