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Smarter Outsourcing for Grantmakers
With the subsequent downturn in the economy, outsourcing became an even more attractive opption for some funders. Today, more than ever, grantmakers facing fluctations in the economy need to work more resourcefully, efficiently, and effectively. This paper will explore why grantmakers choose to outsource, what functions are typically contracted out, and how an outsourcing arrangement is best managed, based on the lessons TCC Group--and our clients--have learned over the past 30 years
More Than Grantmaking: A First Look at Foundations' Direct Charitable Activities
Presents the findings of a study that tracks the growing role of operating programs -- or direct charitable activities -- at philanthropic foundations in the United States
Loud, Proud and Prosperous! Report on the Mobility International USA International Symposium on Microcredit for Women with Disabilities
[Excerpt] MIUSA designed the International Symposium on Microcredit for Women with Disabilities in response to recommendations from women leaders with disabilities at WILD, at the Symposium in Beijing, and from our own experience with US-based international development programs. It seemed apparent that economic empowerment of women with disabilities was not high on any agenda â international aid agencies, development organizations, womenâs programs, or even disability rights movements. Women with disabilities expressed that they â women with disabilities â would need to take leadership in this area, and that they needed particular knowledge and skills to be effective as leaders in this area
Compounding Impact: Mission Investing by U.S. Foundations
This recently published report provides the first comprehensive analysis of mission investing by U.S. foundations. The study, funded by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, analyzes the mission investment activity of 92 U.S. foundations, which have made a combined total of 200 million
From Novelty to Expectation: Recommendations to Develop a System of Campus Support for Foster Youth
As longtime funders of efforts to promote educational opportunity for current and former foster youth, the Walter S. Johnson Foundation (WSJF) and Stuart Foundation have been in the forefront of efforts to replicate successful models of campus support programs for former foster youth at public institutions of higher education in the Bay Area and Northern California. This paper was commissioned to help the funders determine what additional investments could be made to help additional campuses implement support programs and to move the field toward a "tipping point" where temporary philanthropic support for a relatively small number of demonstration programs begins to be replaced by on-going public support for the widespread replication of CSPs throughout the state's public institutions of higher education. This paper examines the challenges and barriers faced by campuses that seek to replicate campus support programs for foster youth, determine what campuses need for effective replication, and the most useful ways in which support could be delivered. In also includes a potential design for a campus support program initiative and makes recommendations for the type of intermediary needed to manage the initiative
Strategic Planning: A Review of Grantee Practices
Provides an analysis of the strategic planning process of nonprofit organizations funded by the foundation, including the process of organizational change. Includes recommendations
The Leading Journal in the Field: Destabilizing Authority in the Social Sciences of Management
217 p. : il , 20 x 13 cm.Libro ElectrĂłnicoI am often told, âDonât waste your time reading books, youâd be better off reading the leading journals in your field.â Unfortunately, the authors of this book have closely read some of those articles: examining arguments, with simple principles and words, plus a touch of irony â and a shared belief in ideas and debates. The suspicions that we all have in a part of our head appears in its ugly nakedness: what is this social game that authors in leading management journals play? What grants them their truth effects? This is a book that one should read the day one enters the academic field; and then regularly thereafter so as not to forget.â Professor Jean-Luc Moriceau, Telecom Business School (France)"A menudo me dijo:" No pierda su tiempo leyendo libros, que serĂa mejor que la lectura de las revistas lĂderes en su campo. "Desafortunadamente, los autores de este libro han leĂdo muy de cerca algunos de esos artĂculos: el examen de los argumentos, con principios simples y palabras, ademĂĄs de un toque de ironĂa - y la creencia compartida de ideas y debates. Las sospechas de que todos tenemos en una parte de la cabeza aparece en su fea desnudez: ÂżquĂ© es este juego social que los autores de revistas lĂder en gestiĂłn de jugar? Lo que les dĂ© efectos de verdad? Este es un libro que uno debe leer el dĂa se entra en el campo acadĂ©mico, y luego periĂłdicamente a partir de entonces, para no olvidar ". Profesor Jean-Luc Moriceau , Telecom Business School (Francia)Contributors vii
1 Introduction 1
2 Towards a Clinical Study of Finance: The DeAngelos and the Redwoods 9
3 Marientbal At Work 35
4 âLessons for Managers and Consultantsâ: A Reading of Edgar H. Scheinâs Process Consultation 61
5 Multiple Failures of Scholarship: Karl Weick and the Mann Gulch Disaster 85
6 The âNature of Manâ and the Science of Organization 103
7 Performativity: From J.L. Austin to Judith Butler 119
8 Four Close Readings on Introducing the Literary in Organizational Research 143
9 From Bourgeois Sociology to Managerial Apologetics: A Tale of Existential Struggle 16
MÄori farming trusts - A preliminary scoping investigation into the governance and management of large dairy farm businesses.
This preliminary scoping study investigates areas for possible improvement in the governance and management of large MÄori dairy farm businesses. Building on the innovative practices of their tĆ«puna â including Rawiri Taiwhanga, the countryâs first commercial dairy farmer â MÄori are defining their own aspirations, realities and goals in the dairy farming world (Durie 1998, 2000). This report outlines these, and their accompanying challenges, as expressed by individuals and collectives currently engaged in MÄori Dairy farm businesses.
The MÄori way of doing business is described in this study as having a âQuadruple Bottom Line of Profit, People, Environment and Communityâ business objectives. More specifically, âMÄori farms often have an inverted Quadruple Bottom Line. People, Environment and their Community often come before ProfitâŠ.but without Profit none of it happens.â
MÄori strategic plans and business values place emphasis on relationships, responsibilities, reciprocity and respect. These are exemplars of a MÄori world-view, which explicitly acknowledges particular historic and cultural contexts (Tapsell and Woods 2010).
The strategic management plans of the MÄori Farming Trusts illustrate the spiral or matrix of values âHe korunga o nga tikangaâ envisaged by Nicholson, HÄnare and Woods (2012). They prioritise the development of social capital to create competitive advantage. Such strategic plans reflect MÄori vision and aspirations. These are to sustain and grow the land base; to provide leadership and guidance for the whÄnau; to develop capacity and resources within the Trusts and to perform better as businesses.DairyNZ Ltd, Ministry for Primary Industries (NZ
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