This week: Using Evaluation to Advance Equity. Trending in CONNECT. Weekly Reads.

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** Using Evaluation to Advance Equity
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Evaluation is often the last organizational function to be examined through an equity lens. It’s time to change the way the sector thinks about evaluation and its role in creating and refining equitable strategies.
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** Weekly Reads
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“Rather than thinking of [nonprofit] investment in key infrastructure as diminishing [their] programs, it should be seen as valuable Core Mission Support.” [more] ([link removed])
—Nonprofit Quarterly

“It is vital that early-stage grantmakers learn from the wisdom of those who have gone before them... Greater Good: Lessons from Those Who Have Started Major Grantmaking Organizations distills insights gleaned from [35] interviews, offering guidance for a new wave of philanthropic leaders.” [more] ([link removed])
—Center for Effective Philanthropy

“To effectively share their stories of impact and attract partners online, foundations need to ensure that their digital presence conveys a sense of transparency, authenticity, clarity of purpose, and relevance.” [more] ([link removed])
—Grantspace by Candid

Ways to “create transformational, rather than transactional relationships, with people who are directly impacted by the issues foundations are tackling.” [more] ([link removed])
—Seema Shah, on NCRP blog

“Philanthropy holds a place of stature and privilege in our society – for better or for worse — and for that reason, among others, we must take risks and step out of our comfort zone. [...] Today we have both an opportunity and an obligation to lend our growing influence, to vehemently refute and discount these stale, tired, and racist notions of what it means to be American…” [more] ([link removed])
—Kiran Ahuja, Philanthropy Northwest, in The Chronicle of Philanthropy

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