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GivingWorks helps foundations define their goals, position themselves within the philanthropic field, and achieve quantifiable results. |
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| Foundation executives are charged with mobilizing their resources to combat the world’s toughest problems. Using a customized framework that combines private-sector discipline with insight into the social sector, GivingWorks can help improve foundations’ decision making and resource allocation. We prepare foundation clients for the cycles of social change and for new avenues of collaboration.
We see the philanthropic field as an organic whole where each stakeholder plays a distinct role. We can help your foundation define its role and align its programs, staff, and resources to increase the likelihood of success.
Find out below how we’ve helped the Development Marketplace and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, two grantmaking programs working on tough problems in complex institutional environments. Also see What We Do to find out how we can help your philanthropic organization turn insight to impact.
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Targeting Outcomes for the World Bank's Development Marketplace
The World Bank’s Development Marketplace was founded in 1998 as a mechanism to connect innovative social entrepreneurs inside and outside of the Bank with funds and recognition. While the Development Marketplace has been lauded by senior management and external observers, including a glowing article in the November 2002 Harvard Business Review, the Bank’s strategic planners were eager to see how the program could be improved. Was it really driving innovation in the development community? How had previous Development Marketplace winners fared in subsequent years? And was this the most effective way for the Bank to help the emerging field of social entrepreneurship?
GivingWorks was asked to provide an independent strategic perspective on the program and present alternatives for consideration. Our team started by identifying the field—the collection of actors working on social entrepreneurship—and analyzing the role played by the World Bank in this highly specialized sphere. Then, drawing on our synthesis of individual project evaluations and input from grantees, cofunders, and other stakeholders, our consultants identified potential business models for the Development Marketplace. Comparing the strengths and weaknesses of each model with an eye toward the bigger picture, GivingWorks helped management sift through the options and make design changes that would optimize support for social entrepreneurs.
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Helping IMLS Listen to its Stakeholders
For decades, the collection, exhibition, and interpretation of African American cultural resources were the province of African American museums established during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. But in recent years, “mainstream” museums have started to spend time and resources on this previously neglected area. While this has helped popularize and broaden appreciation of African American history, it has also created competition for resources, visitors, and staff—and has offered an opportunity to redefine the role of African American museums as the interpreters of this unique history.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is an independent grant-making agency that is the largest funder of museums and libraries in the United States. In its effort to examine the needs of African American museums in this new environment, IMLS engaged GivingWorks to gather the input of more than 30 executive directors and leaders in the African American museum community. Facilitating this input—and looking beyond funding to strategic recommendations—GivingWorks helped IMLS and its stakeholders recognize the unique needs and opportunities facing African American museums at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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