Content tagged with “Philanthropy”
The Art of Influence In a recent paper, Kristen Grimm of Spitfire Strategies writes about a topic that goes to the heart of what all advocacy groups attempt to do—that is, influence the process by...
Tags: Advocacy Strategy, Evaluation Theory and Practice, Philanthropy Climate Change Advocacy The connection between climate change and security concerns can easily be over-drawn, limiting its credibility. But Anne-Marie Slaughter and her research colleagues are...
Tags: Advocacy Strategies, Philanthropy, Climate Change Thinking Big—and Evaluating Along the Way Folks at the Atlantic Philanthropies are actively seeking ways to communicate the lessons they’ve picked up (sometimes the hard way) over the years about the...
Tags: Evaluation Theory and Practice, Philanthropy, Nonprofits So... What Are We Measuring Here? We’re constantly bombarded with rankings, everything from best cities in the US to top (study?) party schools. With Penn’s annual Global GoTo Think Tank Index...
Tags: Advocacy Strategies, Evaluation Theory and Methods, Philanthropy Europeans Are Just a Tiny Bit Different In a new report published earlier this week, the folks at Grantcraft explore the nuances of funding and conducting advocacy in the European Union. While...
Tags: Advocacy Strategies, Philanthropy Europeans Are Just a Tiny Bit Different In a new report published earlier this week, the folks at Grantcraft explore the nuances of funding and conducting advocacy in the European Union. While...
Tags: Advocacy Strategies, Social Media, Philanthropy David Rubenstein, co-founder and managing director of the Carlyle Group, was honored at the Aspen Institute's 29th Annual Awards Dinner in New York City. Hear more perspectives on philanthropy from...
Tags: Annual Awards Dinner 2012, David Rubenstein, Philanthropy Writing We really love good writing. In fact, we’ve been known to write a thing or two about the topic in past newsletters. This week, we were just bowled over by Eric Newton’s July 2012 blog post on...
Tags: Philanthropy, APEP News, Advocacy and Social Media, Advocacy Strategies Bipartisanship?! Really? The Kaiser Family Foundation published the results of their latest poll of the American public—this time on spending in global health projects in the developing world. The...
Tags: Education, Philanthropy, global health, Evaluation Theory and Methods, US Politics Creating and Measuring Interim Policy Objectives The APEP team will be doing a webinar for Independent Sector on May 3rd at 2PM EST on defining and tracking meaningful benchmarks for progress on...
Tags: Philanthropy, APEP News, Advocacy Strategies 
