What is coaching? How can coaching contribute to my development as a nonprofit leader? What kind of coaching is right for me and my organization? How much is coaching? These are just a few of the questions that Coaching and Philanthropy: An Action Guide for Nonprofits addresses in this guide that highlights the findings from the Coaching and Philanthropy Project’s unprecedented deep dive into learning about the use of coaching in the nonprofit sector. The project was formed by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, Leadership that Works, and BTW informing change to assess and advance coaching as a strategy for building effective nonprofit organizations.
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Coaching and Philanthropy: An Action Guide for Nonprofits
Sunday, September 5th, 2010The Bridging Role of Community Health Promoters
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Community health workers, public health aides, promotores and peer educators are all terms used to describe the role of community health promoters. These workers are recruited from communities to apply their knowledge of the area and their personal connections with residents to promote the public’s health. The Community Clinics Initiative requested that BTW examine the role of community health promoters in their Networking for Community Health grantmaking program. This brief documents the role and effectiveness of community health promoters in the program.
Final Evaluation of the Low Income Investment Fund’s Constructing Connections Pilot: 2004-2009: Executive Summary
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010The Low Income Investment Fund’s ABCD Initiative supports the development of quality child care facilities in California. In this report, BTW took an in-depth look at one of the initiative’s strategies—Constructing Connections. Through this strategy, LIIF supported local collaborative teams consisting of child care operators, developers, civic leaders, small business leaders and other stakeholders in 11 California counties. These collaborative teams worked together to identify and eliminate local and regional barriers to child care facilities development, streamline the development process and provide support to new child care construction projects. This executive summary summarizes the key findings and implications from the evaluation, including the importance of having an ongoing connective community resource to support long-term systems change work
Evaluation Capacity Diagnostic Tool
Thursday, June 24th, 2010This Evaluation Capacity Diagnostic Tool is designed to help organizations assess their readiness to take on many types of evaluation activities. It captures information on organizational context and the evaluation experience of staff and can be used in various ways. For example, the tool can pinpoint particularly strong areas of capacity as well as areas for improvement, and can also calibrate changes over time in an organization’s evaluation capacity. In addition, this diagnostic can encourage staff to brainstorm about how their organization can enhance evaluation capacity by building on existing evaluation experience and skills. Finally, the tool can serve as a precursor to evaluation activities with an external evaluation consultant.
Evaluation Capacity Diagnostic Tool by BTW informingchange is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://btw.informingchange.com/about/contact-us.
Creating Connections for Healthier Communities: The Community Clinics Initiative’s Networking for Community Health Program
Friday, June 4th, 2010In 2008, The Community Clinics Initiative (CCI)’s launched their new Networking for Community Health grantmaking program. The program provides California community clinics with two-year grants to strengthen networking efforts with other organizations to promote the health of the communities they serve. Grantees’ networks have addressed a variety of community health priorities, from exposure to toxins to access to healthy food and regular exercise to disaster planning.
At a mid-point during the inaugural cohort, BTW informing change created a “visual summary” that describes the program’s key findings and learnings in a visually appealing, easy-to-use and condensed format.
Measuring the Immeasurable: Lessons for Building Grantee Capacity to Evaluate Hard-to-Assess Efforts
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Coaching and Philanthropy: An Action Guide for Grantmakers
Friday, March 5th, 2010How does coaching differ from other types of nonprofit supports? Why should grantmakers support coaching? When and how should coaching be used? These are just a few of the questions that Coaching and Philanthropy: An Action Guide for Grantmakers addresses in this guide that highlights the findings from the Coaching and Philanthropy Project’s unprecedented deep dive into learning about the use of coaching in the nonprofit sector. The project was formed by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, Leadership that Works, and BTW informing change to assess and advance coaching as a strategy for building effective nonprofit organizations.
Coaching and Philanthropy: An Action Guide for Coaches
Friday, March 5th, 2010What does it take to become an effective coach in the nonprofit sector? How can coaches assess leaders’ readiness for coaching? How can coaches ensure a successful engagement? These are just a few of the questions that Coaching and Philanthropy: An Action Guide for Coaches addresses in this guide that that highlights the findings from the Coaching and Philanthropy Project’s unprecedented deep dive into learning about the use of coaching in the nonprofit sector. The project was formed by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, Leadership that Works, and BTW informing change to assess and advance coaching as a strategy for building effective nonprofit organizations.
Enhancing Nonprofit Leadership Through Coaching: LeaderSpring’s Executive Coaching Project
Friday, March 5th, 2010LeaderSpring’s Executive Coaching Project (ECP) complements their existing two-year leadership program for nonprofit executives who are predominantly leaders of color and/or work in communities of color. BTW informing change conducted an evaluation of the ECP and found that, overall, the Executive Coaching Project is a unique and effective model for supporting nonprofit leaders as they engage in the LeaderSpring fellowship program. The report describes LeaderSpring’s ECP model and coaching process, explores key findings and offers program reflections and implications for those who would like to support similar types of efforts.
Utilizing One-on-One and Peer Group Coaching to Enhance Nonprofit Leadership: The Center for Leadership Innovation’s Pilot Coaching Project
Friday, March 5th, 2010The Center for Leadership Innovation (TCLI), formerly known as the Development Training Institute, embarked on a pilot project to offer two types of coaching to emerging leaders of color who had completed a leadership training. TCLI alumni were given the opportunity to participate in one-on-one coaching, peer group coaching, or a combination of both. BTW informing change conducted an exploratory evaluation of this pilot project to identify the benefits of these different coaching models in and of themselves and as a complement to the leadership training. Both types of coaching assisted participants in strengthening their leadership, with each type having particular strengths.
