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Funding Organisational Development: From Insight to Action
Funding Organisational Development: From Insight to Action is a practical guide for funders seeking to strengthen the resilience, effectiveness and long-term sustainability of the organisations they support. Developed by Philea's Organisational Development Community of Practice and informed by experienced practitioners, it explores how funders can move beyond one-off capacity-building interventions towards more holistic, trust-based approaches that centre partner agency, equity and context. The publication offers a practical ten-step framework for designing or renewing organisational development support, addressing challenges facing civil society today.
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A Guide to Building a Successful Leadership Development Program
A step-by-step guide for organisations that design or fund leadership development programmes. It draws on evaluations of the fellowship programmes run by Schusterman and the Rockwood Leadership Institute. It sets out 5 recommendations: make space for openness, develop emotional intelligence, build relationships on purpose, design a sound coaching approach and promote collaboration across sectors. It also includes a programme-building checklist, evaluation findings and further reading on equity in leadership development.
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Developing a Theory of Change
Guidance for funders and programme teams planning social change efforts. Part 1 explains theory of change concepts, benefits and limits. Part 2 gives step-by-step guidance, exercises and examples for writing an equitable theory of change. Part 3 provides fillable templates for components, assumptions and audiences. Part 4 shows example models. The guide stresses equity and community engagement, and it replaces a 2004 guide the foundation commissioned from ORS Impact.
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Contribution analysis
A 4-page brief that explains contribution analysis, a way to make a credible claim that a programme contributed to an observed change when an experiment or control group is not practical. It sets out how to test the programme's theory of change against evidence and consider other factors that may explain the outcome. Evaluators, programme staff and funders use it to plan and report on contribution claims.
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Guidelines for Comprehensive Fiscal Sponsorship
A short paper setting out administrative, financial and legal good practice for comprehensive fiscal sponsorship, where a host nonprofit takes a project in as its own programme. It was written by a group of fiscal sponsors who practise this model, many working for social justice. Sponsors use it to set their own standards. Project leaders and funders use it to judge whether a sponsor runs the arrangement well.
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Oak Foundation Governance Assessment Tool
A framework for assessing the practices and processes of a grantee's governing body. Oak programme officers use it during due diligence and through the grant to give boards a consistent assessment, to discuss with grantees what an effective board looks like and to track governance over time. It also helps programme officers spot where capacity-building support would help and orients new staff to Oak's view of good governance.
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