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Handbook on Third Sector European Policy: Multi-level processes and organized civil society (2009)
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This volume is the culmination of seven years of research by the Third Sector European Policy (TSEP) network. Seventeen chapters offer in-depth insights into the third sector and policy processes in a wide range of European countries, including the Netherlands,...
Monitoring and Evaluation - A practical guide for grant-making trusts (1998)
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Association of Charitable Foundations
This guide draws on the experience of the UK's grant-making trusts and foundations, to provide an essential handbook on monitoring and evaluation, with examples and guidance to help in assessing...
Proving and Improving Toolkit
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A toolkit to help mission-driven organisations to explore practical ways to measure their social, economic and environmental impact; and demonstrate the quality of what they do and how they operate.
Unequal Partnerships: Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration (2006)
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The divisions and differences between grantors and grantees form the central backbone of this book. A lengthy description of the Chicago Initiative is used to illustrate difficulties in the donor-recipient relationship and to assess how the differences within and between...
Measuring Real Value: A DIY Guide to Social Return on Investment (2007)
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Social Return on Investment’ analysis captures the positive social and environmental impacts that are otherwise left off the balance sheet. Social enterprises, third sector organisations and ethical businesses deliver a far wider range of benefits than it is possible to...
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (2007)
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An innovative guide to how great non-profits achieve extraordinary social impact, based on case studies of twelve high-performing charities. The authors’ central question - what makes great non-profits great? – is answered by describing six counterintuitive practices that these organisations...
How Are You Getting On? Charities and funders on communicating results (2009)
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New Philanthropy Capital
This report from New Philanthropy Capital seeks to help both charities and donors to better communicate results. By understanding how funders use results information and what drives their satisfaction with...
Billions of drops in millions of buckets: Why philanthropy doesn’t advance social progress (2009)
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Despite record levels of charitable giving, volunteerism, and non-profit innovation, it has become increasingly more difficult over the last thirty years for poor and low-income Americans to become economically and socially self-sufficient. Philanthropy doesn't move the needle of social progress...
Galvanizing Philanthropy (2009)
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Harvard Business Review
This article argues that in order to strengthen their impact in the world, philanthropic investors need to rigorously define their goals, be realistic about how to achieve them, and commit...
Catalytic Philanthropy (2009)
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
This paper from Mark Kramer proposes that despite the vast amounts of money spent by philanthropists, they fall far short of solving the most pressing problems. Kramer argues that closing...

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