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Novmeber 2007-January 2008
Resources & Links
Activities, Web sites and other cutting-edge information for global givers
New guide for philanthropy against racism
GrantCraft (www.grantcraft.org), an initiative of the Ford Foundation that collects and shares best practice information about grantmaking, has produced a new guide in cooperation with the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equality (www.racialequity.org). Entitled Grant Making with a Racial Equity Lens, the guide offers skills and strategies that donors can use to deepen their understanding and actions regarding race, ethnicity and equity. The guide is available online at www.grantcraft.org/pdfs/equity.pdf. (Aspen Philanthropy Letter, October 2007)
New research on diaspora philanthropy
The Karoff Center at The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI) and the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University have completed a research study that examines the growing philanthropic giving from citizens and residents of the United States to their countries of origin. Entitled Diaspora Philanthropy: New Roles and Emerging Models, the effort includes a look at trends in diaspora philanthropy in general, as well as case studies of giving to Colombia, Kenya, the Philippines and Vietnam. It also includes a compendium of institutions and programs that encourage and support diaspora giving. The studies can be found in the Strengthening Global Philanthropy section of TPI's website www.tpi.org.
Alliance Magazine focuses on measuring impact
The December 2007 issue of Alliance Magazine (www.alliancemagazine.org) contains a special feature on "Measuring impact: Who counts?" It includes an interview with Paul Brest, president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in which he shares his views on the importance of both funders and the organizations they support investing in evaluation of their work. In another piece, David Bonbright of Keystone Accountability (and a Synergos Senior Fellow) looks at new tools that are helping nonprofit organizations better measure their impact. As he puts it: "Current thinking favors a much friendlier pluralistic model in which qualitative, quantitative, perceptual and empirical data can be assembled into a comprehensible whole that still honors the complexity of social change." Bonbright and Akwasi Aidoo of Trust Africa guest edited the special feature.
Synergos launches institutional newsletter
This December, Synergos distributed its first organization-wide electronic newsletter to partners. Entitled The Commons, it provides an overview of work across Synergos' various programs. The inaugural issue features articles about work in Brazil, Canada, India, Namibia, the Middle East and North Africa, and along the US-Mexico border, as well as brief profiles of new members of the Global Philanthropists Circle. It also presented links to highlights of the GPC Annual Meeting. The Commons will be produced quarterly and available free. To subscribe or read the first issue, visit www.synergos.org/thecommons/.
© 2008 The Synergos Institute/World Economic Forum
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