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How to work with government to make positive social change

20 March 2014 / kate / 5 Comments

Four experts share their approach and strategies Positive social change can start at the kitchen table – family by family, community by community.  It can also start in the legislative chamber – law by law, policy by policy.   Best of all is when they occur simultaneously, informing and reinforcing each other. At the Todd Foundation’s…

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More on the compliance costs of seeking funding

9 March 2014 / kate / Leave a comment

Here’s another voice urging funders to reduce our compliance costs and think differently about how we measure our performance – see what Caroline Fiennes in the Stanford Social Innovation Review has to say.    She asks whether “a funder is essentially spending a grant on itself”.    Good question Caroline!

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Maximising the community benefit of grant-making

29 January 2014 / kate / Leave a comment

(or:  To get more impact from funding, first look in the mirror)  In my last post, I explored how, once we factor in compliance costs to grantees, funders give considerably less than we think – and in fact some of our grant-making practices reduce the very impact we seek to make.  So what can we…

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Counting the community benefit of grant-making

14 January 2014 / kate / 5 Comments

(or why we give less than we think)  As grant-makers we want to provide accessible funding, select grantees wisely and understand our impact.  The way we usually go about this is through contestable funding and robust processes for selection, accountability and sometimes evaluation. All well and good – except for the compliance costs these processes…

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Warm heart, cool head and hard nose…

2 January 2014 / kate / Leave a comment

Ten years ago, when I was focused on business rather than philanthropy, it occurred to me that business leadership requires a balance between a warm heart, a cool head and a hard nose.  To test this concept, I interviewed three New Zealand business leaders – Hubbard Cereal’s founder Dick Hubbard, then Telecom NZ CE Theresa…

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