1,138 results found
Why We Rhize: Learnings from a Decade of Supporting Movements
December 19, 2023This report aims to celebrate Rhize's legacy and document its many impacts, while also distilling challenges and learnings on diverse themes relevant to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in social change worldwide. As such, this report does not offer exhaustive descriptions of an NGO's programmatic work, as an annual report or a website might. Instead, it offers an organizational history through a multi-voiced narrative of an NGO's twists and turns, drawing from interviews with 15 key stakeholders from various points throughout its decade-long journey.
Why We Rhize: Enseignements tirés d’une décennie de soutien aux mouvements
December 19, 2023Ce rapport vise à rendre hommage à l'héritage de Rhize et à documenter ses nombreux impacts, tout en distillant les défis et les enseignements sur divers thèmes pertinents pour les organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) qui travaillent sur le changement social dans le monde entier. En tant que tel, ce rapport n'offre pas de descriptions exhaustives du travail programmatique d'une ONG, comme le ferait un rapport annuel ou un site Web. Au lieu de cela, il offre une histoire organisationnelle à travers un récit, à plusieurs voix, des rebondissements d'une ONG, en s'appuyant sur des entretiens avec 15 parties prenantes clés de divers points tout au long de son parcours sur dix ans.---This report aims to celebrate Rhize's legacy and document its many impacts, while also distilling challenges and learnings on diverse themes relevant to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in social change worldwide. As such, this report does not offer exhaustive descriptions of an NGO's programmatic work, as an annual report or a website might. Instead, it offers an organizational history through a multi-voiced narrative of an NGO's twists and turns, drawing from interviews with 15 key stakeholders from various points throughout its decade-long journey.
The next wave of disruption: Emerging market media use of artificial intelligence and machine learning
July 19, 2021In frontier and emerging media markets across the globe, there are many new opportunities in newsrooms to innovate through artificial intelligence, machine learning and data processing. In this report, IMS, The Fix and the Latin American Centre for Investigative Journalism (The CLIP) have drawn the lens to fast-rising developmental changes capable of driving digital transformation in business and journalism by understanding how those newsrooms can use technology to develop a data and user-led approach to newsgathering, content, distribution, marketing and sales, and post-sale services.
6th Global Media Monitoring Project
July 13, 2021The emergence and rapid proliferation of Covid-19 made the 2020 implementation of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) the most extraordinary since the initiative's inception in 1995. Yet, despite the pandemic, the number of participating countries, media and stories monitored was the highest ever. GMMP 2020 was implemented in 116 countries and covered 30,172 stories published in newspapers, broadcast on radio and television, and disseminated on news websites and via news media tweets. Twenty-five percent of stories in the sample carried a coronavirus sub- or principal theme. A tweak in the methodology still made it possible to analyze the stories along the classic GMMP major topic categories of politics & government, economy, science & health, social & legal, crime & violence and celebrity/media/arts & sports. The GMMP 2020 topics' structure carved out a seventh major topic "gender & related", in which to cluster stories specific to sexual harassment, rape, #MeToo and similar gender-specific stories.
Closing the "Gap" Between Competency and Commitment in Minnesota: Ideas from National Standards and Practices in Other States
January 9, 2018In Minnesota, a "gap" exists in the justice system for defendants with mental illness. Defendants in criminal cases are found incompetent to stand trial, yet do not meet the higher standard for civil commitment. Commitment is the only way to receive competency restoration treatment, so individuals who do not meet the standard are unable to resolve their criminal cases or to receive treatment. The Robina Institute conducted research see how other states address incompetency.
Project Turnkey 2020–2023: Report to the Oregon Legislature
March 2, 2024Project Turnkey is an unprecedented investment in our shared future — a swift, smart, statewide response to the crises of 2020 that has turned underused or vacant real estate into safe shelter and a fresh start for thousands of unhoused Oregonians.In just over three years, this public-private initiative has delivered powerful returns on the state's investment:* More than 121,000 nights of refuge and stabilizing services for over 2,000 adults and children.* Locally owned assets designed to meet unique community needs in 27 cities and 18 counties.* A cost-effective, equitable and replicable model for shortterm shelter and transitional housing that helps people navigate personal challenges and return to permanent housing.
Measuring Youth Development: How Out-of-School Time Programs Collect and Use Data
February 27, 2024Out-of-school-time (OST) programs and their funders rely on sound data to make decisions about everything from professional development and student recruitment to the selection of activities to offer students. Programs operate at a range of times (before and after school, weekends, summer) and in a variety of locations (e.g., schools, community-based organizations, city parks and recreation centers), are run by a variety of entities (e.g., government agencies, private community organizations), and receive funding from a variety of sources (e.g., government, philanthropy)—each of which may be interested in a different set of data and come with its own reporting requirements. This means there is a great deal of variation in the types of data programs collect.In 2019, The Wallace Foundation (Wallace) commissioned Child Trends to conduct a study of the kinds of youth outcomes OST programs are interested in measuring, the tools they use to measure those outcomes, and the challenges they experience in doing so. The study included a literature scan and interviews with leaders and staff members at 28 OST programs. Twelve of the 28 also completed surveys; a separate group of 10 provided information by survey only. The study expands on past research by a) focusing on programs that work in specific content areas (e.g., the arts, civic engagement and social justice, career and workforce development) and b) covering both quantitative approaches (i.e., tracking numerical data) and qualitative approaches (gathering descriptive information through surveys, interviews, etc.) to data collection.While its findings apply to OST programs in general, the study focused on particular types of programs (i.e., afterschool, summer, online) and particular content areas, as well as programs that serve school-age children and adolescents from marginalized communities, those that support students' social and emotional learning (SEL), those that serve systems-involved youth, and those that focus on promoting equity—for example, by training staff to recognize and overcome personal biases or by recruiting and retaining leaders and staff who reflect the diversity of the participants served.
In Search of the Magic Bullet: Results from the Building Audiences for Sustainability Initiative
February 21, 2024National statistics show stagnant or declining attendance at multiple art forms in which nonprofit organizations work. The Wallace Foundation's Building Audiences for Sustainability initiative (BAS) awarded nearly $41 million in grants between 2015 and 2019 to explore audience-building challenges and the connection between building audiences and financial sustainability. The Foundation awarded grants to 25 large nonprofit performing arts organizations from different artistic disciplines to try to engage new audiences while retaining existing ones and to see whether audience-building efforts contribute to organizations' financial health.Organizations' projects differed, as did the audiences they sought to recruit, which variously included millennial and Gen X audiences; more racially and ethnically diverse audiences; audiences for new and less familiar works; geographically based audiences; infrequent attendees (hoping to motivate them to attend more often); and others. All organizations worked within the initiative's continuous learning framework, involving an iterative process of project design, analysis, and assessment of changes needed for improvement. Within that framework, many approached grant funding as risk capital for experimentation with new and varied approaches.What insights do the results of their efforts and experimentation offer for other nonprofit performing arts organizations facing similar challenges? After awarding the BAS grants, The Wallace Foundation awarded a grant to The University of Texas at Austin to independently study the implementation and outcomes of the organizations' audience building projects. To provide an empirically grounded and multi-faceted account, the study included three major data collection efforts between 2015 and 2022: Conducting hundreds of interviews with organizational leaders and staff; conducting audience surveys; and compiling data from organizational ticket databases.When organizations completed their projects in 2019, little could anyone have imagined that performing arts venues would soon be shuttered by a global COVID-19 pandemic. As performing arts organizations have re-opened, the challenges of audience and financial sustainability remain all too relevant. We hope findings from this study and the initiative can help inform conversations about addressing these challenges. That said, it should also be kept in mind that the BAS organizations were large, established nonprofits. Their issues clearly resonate more widely with those of similar organizations but not necessarily with those of others.
American Jewish Philanthropy 2022: Giving to Religious and Secular Causes in the U.S. and to Israel
February 20, 2024This report examines American Jewish giving and volunteering in 2022, with a strong emphasis on religious giving and giving to Israel-focused organizations. The analyses that make up the findings of the report are based on a survey developed for this study which was conducted by SSRS in March 2023. The survey and these analyses are enhanced by prior studies of Jewish philanthropy.The subsequent analysis explores how certain factors—household income and wealth, marital status, educational attainment, children living at home, and age—influence philanthropy as demonstrated by prior research (Bekkers & Wiepking, 2011; Rooney et al., 2018; Wiepking & Bekkers, 2012) and how those effects differ as compared to non-Jewish households.This report also contributes to the body of philanthropic research by examining factors that are specific to Jewish philanthropy, including religiosity, engagement in and affinity for the Jewish faith, affiliation with different Jewish denominations, Jewish ethnic backgrounds, and concerns toward and experiences with antisemitism. It delves into motivations for giving and provides detailed information about the largest gifts given by Jewish households. In addition to its contribution related to giving to Israel-focused organizations, the report also details the allocation of gifts to specific types of organizations or causes.
Advancing Arab Philanthropic Partnerships and Collaboratives: 2024 Workshop Report
February 1, 2024During its 2023 Annual Meeting held in Cairo on 11-13 September 2023, the Arab Foundations Forum (AFF) organized the Knowledge Co-Creation and Community Building Workshop on Advancing Arab Philanthropic Partnerships and Collaboratives with the goal of deepening knowledge sharing on Arab philanthropic partnerships practices and how to advance their effectiveness and impact. The workshop design followed a knowledge co-creation approach that engaged participants from the outset in a process-oriented and value-driven framework which is described fully in section 3 of this report.
Assessing Child Care Access: Measuring Supply, Demand, Quality, and Shortages in the District of Columbia
January 29, 2024This report, "Assessing Child Care Access: Measuring Supply, Demand, Quality, and Shortages in the District of Columbia," was commissioned in response to our early childhood partners in D.C. who wanted to:* Understand the current supply of and demand for child care in D.C. so that decisions and investments — by early childhood professionals, federal and local governments, philanthropic organizations, and the private sector — can be intentional and thoughtfully targeted for maximum impact* Reflect on the social and demographic changes that affect families and their child care decisions* Examine current realities, pivot, and explore new possibilities
The LGBTQ+ Corporate Citizen: A Framework for Emerging Best Practices in Allyship
January 25, 2024In a new report that builds on decades of work with businesses in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality, the Human Rights Campaign examines how corporations can work across all of their business operations as allies to advance inclusion, safety and flourishing of LGBTQ+ people within and outside their organizations.In a challenging and dangerous political and cultural landscape for LGBTQ+ people, businesses are uniquely positioned to live out their stated values – and benefit their bottom lines – by activating their core business operations in service of inclusion and belonging. HRC has identified six pillars of business operations where businesses can make significant impacts. This report explores how businesses can lean into these pillars, identifying examples and leading practices to inspire even more businesses to step in:1. Workforce2. Supply Chain3. Products & Services4. Marketing5. Corporate Philanthropy6. Advocacy & Political Engagement
Showing 12 of 1138 results