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A former substitute teacher in Allentown accused of sexually assaulting a student in a school bathroom will not spend time behind bars.
Michael Agrippine, 46, entered a no contest plea Friday to endangering the welfare of a child.
He was sentenced to five years probation.
Officials say Agrippine sexually assaulted a 9-year-old boy in a bathroom at Union Terrace Elementary School last January.
Agrippine was also facing other charges including sexual contact with a student, but they were withdrawn.
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The past month has seen a parade of spies going public. Mostly, they seem intent on insisting how little they know about the terrible goings-on in the world. First, it was the MI5 director general, Jonathan Evans, writing in the Telegraph. "We did not practise mistreatment or torture then and do not do so now, nor do we collude in torture or encourage others to torture on our behalf."
Last week, it was the turn of Evans's predecessor, Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller. "It wasn't actually until after I retired that I read that, in fact, [Khalid Shaikh Mohammed] had been waterboarded 160 times," she told a parliamentary meeting.
Evans carefully shifted tenses, and thereby said nothing that was remotely relevant to the pending criminal investigation. Nobody has ever intimated that the British tortured Binyam Mohamed. Rather, the allegation is that they stood by and watched while the Americans did the abuse. Evans carefully refrained from saying "nor did we collude in torture" – because we did.
Likewise, Manningham-Buller said absolutely nothing of significance. We know she did not read about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's waterboarding until after her left her job – she retired on 20 April, 2007, and the truth did not emerge until a year later. Nobody has ever made the remotest suggestion to the contrary: she set up a straw man and shoved him back down.
It is hardly surprising that the spooks are saying very little of relevance – that is in their nature. But why did they choose this moment to say very little so very loudly?
Our intelligence agents are not blind to the obvious. Peering from their burrows like Punxsutawney Pete, they panicked. The cause of their dismay? The politicians – the only people who are revealing less about torture than the spies, albeit even more loudly.
Never did a team play for the final whistle more plainly than this government. If the ministers can get past a May election, the Labour realists expect to join Tony Blair on the lecture circuit, far from the perils of office. The thin red line of Labour optimists, afraid that the sins of their recent past could prove an electoral iceberg, pin their wavering hopes on a continued cover-up.
They weave and dodge, dodge and weave. Their plan is simple: if they win the election, they will figure out another way to weave; if they lose, the Tories will be forced either to continue the dissimulation or, like President Obama, to shoulder blame for the wrongdoings of a predecessor.
The spooks are being sold down the river, and they know it. The torture scandal should have been long behind them. Had the politicians made a public acknowledgement – "Regrettably, mistakes were made in the political tsunami that followed 9/11" – all would have rapidly been forgiven. Only the most sanctimonious media commentator would have been writing about it a fortnight later.
Richard Nixon taught the world the danger of the cover-up. The botched Watergate burglary was of minor significance; the White House conspiracy to keep it secret drove Nixon from office. It turned the word "gate" into a suffix for every political evil. So now each day brings a further revelation in Torturegate. Jonathan Evans suggested in the Telegraph that "an allegation has been made that one of my officers might have committed a criminal offence". Unfortunately for Evans, the seeping evidence suggests that this is not the case. It may not have been "my officer" who committed the offence, but Evans himself.
"My officer" was the whistleblower who reported seeing a British prisoner being abused by the Americans on 10 January 2002 – and asked what he should do. It was very likely Evans – in charge of counterterrorism at the time, and presumably working closely with his boss, Manningham-Buller – who sent back a telegram the next day, advising the agent that if he witnessed torture taking place in front of him, he could legitimately ignore it, given that the prisoner was in American custody. The police are not just investigating the small fry, but those responsible for the crimes as well.
Of course, we might have had sympathy for Evans and Manningham-Buller, as they were responding in the wake of 9/11, perhaps the most televised mass crime in history. But the political cover-up has eroded this sympathy. Rather than a frank admission, and an open apology, the original crime has been compounded by the subsequent dissembling.
Friday brought the latest bad news, when the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) released its 2009 report. Referring to evidence of abuse that had been hidden from the ISC in the Binyam Mohamed case, the committee noted that it had only recently learned "that at least four members of staff saw the information, including the team leader... and their section head". So five more members of MI5 will be drawn into the pending criminal investigation.
"The allegations of collusion in torture and the lack of respect for human rights will wound [MI5 agents] personally and collectively, and... will make it harder for them to do their jobs," said Manningham-Buller. But the problem is not the allegation of complicity, but the fact that the allegations have been proven true time and time again – against a background of concerted government obfuscation.
The next government must order a full and independent inquiry. Nobody who is forthright about his mistakes should be sent to jail. The process should be conducted in a spirit of honesty and reconciliation, for we can only learn from history if we know what that history was. Then, when the next inevitable crisis comes, we may hope to respond with greater wisdom. If, on the other hand, officials continue to dissemble, we will still be wading through this mire for many years to come.
Clive Stafford Smith is director of the prisoners' human rights organisation Reprieve ( www.reprieve.org.uk)
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A North Kildonan music teacher is showing off plenty of patriotism at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.
Maryka Chabluk, who teaches part-time at St. Joseph the Worker School in Transcona while also working as a substitute teacher for the River East Transcona School Division, is debuting Proud to Be Canadian as part of the Kids Fringe program.
Chabluk, who has travelled the world promoting Ukrainian culture through music and dance, began performing her show at the Kids Venue at 211 Bannatyne Ave. on Fri., July 19, putting on eight shows from July 19 to 28.
In the show, Chabluk will not only delve into her Canadian and Ukrainian pride, but also take attendees on a trip around the world by highlighting various other cultures. Chabluk met with members of each culture she is highlighting to make sure the elements she's using, ranging from her wardrobe to her pronunciation of words, are precise and a fair representation of the culture she's depicting.
She was connected with cultural ambassadors through Folklorama, and hopes to partner up with the festival in the future.
"I have a hope and a dream that Folklorama will embrace this story and we can rotate the stories," said Chabluk, noting she hopes children appreciate the theme of their ancestors leaving home for Canada, even if they don't see their country directly represented onstage. She added she's invited members of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and Royal Winnipeg Ballet to check out the show in hopes of partnering up with those organizations in the future.
The base of the show uses modified versions of songs from her children's CD Maryka's Treasures, though 10 costume changes, a multimedia element, and a guest Aboriginal dancer will differentiate the show from a basic concert.
"It's always a challenge to entice the children to participate, and that's what my Fringe show is all about," she said. "I've been told that Fringers, especially, they like to be involved in what's going on. I've been told that there will be lots of support and good energy."
Chabluk explained while she has lots of experience as a teacher being up in front of children, she still felt a little stage fright leading up to the show.
"From my teaching experience, I feel quite natural expressing what I'm trying to say, but sometimes you say words wrong, and sometimes you stumble. Sometimes it doesn't go right, and sometimes you forget words," she said. "In a show like this, where I'm counting on audience participation, you never know how someone's going to react.
"But most of the shows are awesome, and that's why I keep doing it."
For more details, visit her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/MarykasTreasures or the festival's website at www.winnipegfringe.com
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for kids.
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(Kris Putnam-Walkerly is chair of the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers and president of Putnam Consulting Group.)
When funders want to know about a particular issue or have questions about process, they often look first to peers and industry associations for answers. That makes perfect sense—the people who do the same job you do are likely to understand where you're coming from and have experienced something similar.
But if funders stop there, they could be selling themselves short. There are also many people who have expertise on the very issue, process, challenge or innovation that a grantmaker is pondering, but are not employed by a foundation or an industry association.
These "knowledgeable outsiders" can have a great deal of valuable thought to add to the field of philanthropy. They offer perspectives that can help uncover new ideas and cautions that grantmakers may never see from inside their own walls. They can bring new levels of creativity, connectivity and effectiveness to a funder's work. And perhaps most importantly, they can help funders be more transparent about the work they do in ways that resonate more deeply with the "outside" world.
So, how can you step outside your foundation box and into a different box altogether? How can you tap into the collective knowledge of those knowledgeable outsiders? The National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers (NNCG) has made it relatively easy, with the launch of its new online Knowledge Center.
NNCG is dedicated to elevating, expanding and improving the field of philanthropy. It is the only organization that brings together high-quality consultants to support the work of grantmakers, and to advance quality and ethical standards among consultants to philanthropy. NNCG members represent experienced and carefully vetted practitioners and thought leaders in the philanthropic field.
The Knowledge Center, created in partnership with the Foundation Center's IssueLab, is an online collection of hundreds of materials created by NNCG members. Its resources represent a wide variety of best practices and innovation that can be or has been applied to grantmaking. It contains a wealth of reports, books, case studies, infographics, issue briefs, videos and more that offer ideas, research and helpful information about almost every aspect of philanthropy. You can search hundreds of topics in seconds using keywords, author, title, publishing organization or date ranges.
At its heart, transparency is all about sharing information openly and honestly. Shared databases like the NNCG Knowledge Center makes it easier to do just that, and both posters and searchers benefit. Consultants who've shared their resources and learnings in the Knowledge Center are modeling a best practice in transparency by making their knowledge and experiences available to others, at no charge, to further the field. They are also helping foundations learn more about transparency from both internal and external perspectives. (A quick search of the term "transparency" on the Knowledge Base as I wrote this post turned up 57 results.)
Those who search and use the Knowledge Center are not only potentially finding ways to enhance their own transparency, but help elevate the knowledge of the field as they spread what they learn.
So, in the spirit of transparency and continual improvement, I invite you to visit and explore the NNCG Knowledge Center. What do you think of the resources there? What other items would you suggest for potential inclusion? Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and share your thoughts.
-- Kris Putnam-Walkerly
(Kristin R. Goerg is the grants manager at the Colburn Foundation.)
In the years since our most recent economic decline began in 2008, foundations have been looking for new ways to provide support to grantees "beyond the grant." For some foundations, providing inspiring and creative technical assistance and professional development opportunities can be an option, but for a smaller foundation like the Colburn Foundation, we have to be creative with the limited resources we have beyond the grant dollar.
Businessman, philanthropist, and amateur violinist Richard D. Colburn established the Colburn Foundation in 1999 to support and promote a healthy and vibrant classical music community, primarily in Southern California, and to make grants to artistically excellent organizations for the performance and presentation of classical music, as well as for music education and the training of musicians.
Our philanthropic niche allows us to focus our funding objectives within a single nonprofit community for maximum impact – which also allows for the development of longstanding, strong relationships with our grantees and a deep knowledge of their programming.
In late 2009 the noticeable deleterious effects of the economic downturn were beginning to wear on some of our grantees both professionally and personally. At the same time, in meetings, some executive directors began mentioning how nice it would be to have a safe space to commiserate with others in their field. Were they also having a difficult time fundraising and bringing in revenue? What new approaches were organizations taking in programming to broaden their audiences? But simply approaching an associate and asking these very confidential questions in the absence of an invested relationship wasn't a realistic option.
Picking up on the need for a neutral zone in which grantees could come together to openly discuss challenges, we decided to host a group of grantees in early 2010 with only three conventions in mind:
These three requirements served only to set the stage for dynamic and often therapeutic discussions in which all was laid bare, as well as the development of personal and professional relationships that would eventually forge partnerships and collaborations. Addressing more particularly the participants in our group circle, a range of experience, background, budget size, and leadership styles is represented. We believe having a breadth of diversity in a group like this is preferable. What it seems to inspire is quick group brainstorming over concrete obstacles, and (when needed) a more concentrated topical discussion touched by a variety of perspectives.
In the years since that first meeting, there have been inevitable leadership transitions; if a director has had to discontinue their participation, we have offered suggestions of other individuals to invite into the group, but leave in tact its overall autonomy.
There is something beautiful in empowering a group of your grantees over time to face and tackle – on their own terms – relevant issues with a collective of trusted peers. We do very little planning – if any planning at all – for the majority of our group discussions. What we provide is space, time, and a free lunch. What this group provides in return is invaluable: a raw, real look into our grantees lives, and the information we need to serve them better.
While we as funders can offer excellent suggestions to grantees based on what we see in the field, what we read in research and reports, and what we observe of each individual organization through the relationships we develop, our perspective can't compare to the cohesive and energizing nature of providing a group of cohorts a sacred space to share, vent, and collaborate.
-- Kristin R. Goerg
The Social Innovation Fund (SIF), a White House initiative and program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, has recently created a new document that's designed to help organizations build a comprehensive evaluation design. The Social Innovation Fund Evaluation Plan Guidance aims to share best practices to benefit and strengthen the sector as a whole.
Recently, Transparency Talk conducted an online interview with Kelly Fitzsimmons of The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) and with Michael Smith, Director of the Social Innovation Fund, to learn how the new framework provided by SIF can be adapted for use in assessing foundation program impact.
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1. Please tell us a little bit about the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, and why you became involved in the Social Innovation Fund?
EMCF: The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation seeks to transform the life trajectories of vulnerable and economically disadvantaged youth by making multi-million, multi-year investments in nonprofits with a potential for growth and compelling evidence that they can help more young people become successful, productive adults.
We agreed to become a SIF intermediary based on our belief that the Social Innovation Fund could become a catalyst for scaling "what works" by encouraging the public and private sectors to direct more resources to the most effective solutions to some of our nation's seemingly intractable social problems.
As a SIF intermediary, we have helped mobilize a total of $120 million in 12 promising, evidence-based organizations: $30 million in federal funds from the SIF with $30 million from our own resources and, through the True North Fund, helped our grantees secure the $60 million required for match. Our SIF grants are designed to build the evidence base and organizational capacity of this portfolio of nonprofits so they can, within three years:
2. What do you see as the value of program evaluations in your field?
EMCF: I think there are some misconceptions about what you "do" with program evaluation. For us at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, one of the biggest positives is that evaluation can expand what you know about what "works" as well as about what doesn't work. It's our belief that program evaluations are a key driver of innovation.
Whether a study shows positive, mixed or disappointing results, if carefully designed it almost always unearths information that can be used to innovate and improve how a program is delivered to boost quality and impact. To get the most out of an evaluation, we believe it is critical during the planning stage for organizations and their evaluators to ask themselves not only what impacts they are looking to test, but also what they'd like to learn about the program's implementation. For example, answering questions such as: "How closely is the program run compared to the intended model?" or "To what extent does this or that program component contribute to impact?" can yield important insights into how well a program is implemented across different sites (or cities or regions) or reveal differences in impacts depending on the population served or environmental factors.
3. How does having evaluation plans, like the Social Innovation Fund's Evaluation Plan Guidance, help nonprofits become more effective?
EMCF: The Social Innovation Fund's tool is a useful resource for organizations interested in building their evidence base and thinking about how to plan thoughtfully for evaluation. It offers practical takeaways that organizations should consider when thinking about evaluation, from structuring an evaluation plan to what elements should be considered in an evaluation, and even ways to assess the feasibility of undertaking one. A thoughtful evaluation plan can also inform an organization's larger plans. For example, if an evaluation requires that *X* number of kids must participate in order for a program to be assessed, does your organization need to grow or adapt in order to meet that threshold? If so, how will the organization get there while maintaining program quality?
In essence, a strong, multi-year evaluation plan is much like a strong business plan—it helps you think about the resources you need, identify your interim and ultimate goals, and even decide what to do and how to communicate if your plan goes off-track.
4. How do EMCF and your grantees use the data you've collected from evaluations?
EMCF: We like to approach evidence building from the premise that we're seeking to understand *how* a program works, not just *if* a program works. From this perspective, whether the findings are positive, mixed or null, evaluating programs over time can yield insights that inform practice, drive innovation and ultimately ensure the best possible outcomes for youth and families.
For example, take Reading Partners, which connects students who are half a grade to 2 ½ grades behind in reading with trained volunteers who use a specialized curriculum. A recently released MDRC evaluation found these kids made greater gains in literacy—1.5 to two months—than their peers after an average of 28 hours of Reading Partners' instruction. During the evaluation, MDRC was able to corroborate that local sites were implementing the program with a high degree of fidelity, including providing appropriate support and training to volunteer tutors. The data collected also indicated the program was effective across different subsets of students, increasing reading ability across 2nd to 5th different grade, varying baseline reading achievement levels, for girls and boys, and even non-native English speakers. This knowledge is now helping Reading Partners think more strategically about how and where it expands to impact more kids.
We worked with Reading Partners as we do with other EMCF grantees, bringing in experts to help them develop high-quality evaluation plans, often connecting them to other experts, and also funding their evaluations. We help them identify key evaluation questions at the outset, work together to monitor progress toward evaluation goals, to make revisions to their plans when circumstances change or new information arises, and to communicate results when they become available. Evidence building is a continuous, dynamic process that informs how EMCF as well as our grantees set and reach our growth, learning and impact goals.
We also use quality and impact data to help measure and track quarterly and annually the performance of each grantee and our entire portfolio, including whether our investment strategy is having its intended effect of aiding our grantees in meeting the yearly and end-of-investment milestones and evidence-building goals on which we have mutually agreed.
5. Many funders express that they are using such evaluations as learning tools. But there is a fear factor that comes in when grantees have specific benchmarks to meet and then fail to meet them that it will mean they will not receive renewed support. And that speaks to the tension between risk, innovation, and accountability. How do you navigate those tensions so that the assessment process doesn't actually stand in the way of risk and innovation?
SIF: Our grantees have expressed this concern too and the way we have answered it is this: evaluation should be about proving and improving. Evaluation results should represent the beginning of a process where all stakeholders use what is learned to enhance and even overhaul programs.
The Social Innovation Fund is, at its core, a grand experiment. As part of this experiment, we are here to learn and together. The investment we are making in our grantees' and subgrantees' innovation is a risk, but it's a measured, calculated risk. Their evaluations will help us understand what works.
If their program comes back with, say, null results but some really valuable information about how the program was implemented or a specific population that needs a different approach to achieve impact – we will not write that off as a failure. But we will demand that our grantees use that information to get the positive results next time. And we expect that they will share this information with their peers so that other programs can learn and build on these lessons.
There is a lot of work that needs to be done in the field to make sure evaluation information released isn't treated as binary – it works or it doesn't. All of the evaluation reports we've seen to date are more in the gray area, even those with truly positive impact. There is always some element of a program that doesn't work as anticipated. We know that most folks don't dig in to find those details, and we have committed to working with our grantees to start the conversations that will help others utilize the evaluation information coming out of the SIF so that the results aren't seen as an up or down vote – they are seen as rich sources of information that can be truly useful.
-- Kelly Fitzsimmons and Michael Smith
(Our Glasspockets team is thrilled to be included on NPC's list of 10 innovations in global philanthropy and touted as philanthropic pioneers with ideas worth spreading. Plum Lomax is the deputy head of the funders team at UK-based NPC. NPC consults with foundations, strategizing their giving to maximize social impact. This post originally appeared on the NPC blog.)
Well-known economist, Thomas Piketty, says wealth inequality is at its highest point for 100 years. Needs are rising, the problems we are trying to solve are getting more complex—and yet giving levels have remained relatively static.
Cutting-edge thinking is being applied to all areas of our lives, and giving is no exception. It's astonishing to think that at the start of my working life (and I'm not that old!), there was no internet, no email, no networked computers. We are continuously changing the way we shop, catch up on the news, book a holiday, listen to music, find a new partner—all of these new methods supposedly improving our lives in some ways.
But is the evolution in giving keeping pace with other areas? And more to the point, are resources being better used as a result: to help more people, to solve complex problems, to improve the world in which we live?
Maximising social impact is at the heart of NPC's mission—deriving the greatest value from limited resources. But this requires constant innovation on the part of both charities (in the way they approach issues they want to tackle), and donors and funders (in the way they spend their money).
That's why today we're excited to launch 10 innovations in global philanthropy, a new report on the most pioneering approaches to philanthropy worldwide. The aim was to discover what could be brought back to or scaled up in the UK, and now, after months of desk research and interviews with experts from every continent, we hope it kick-starts more innovative action in this field.
We found some fascinating developments—new uses of data, greater sharing of information, different types of collaboration between funders, better ways of investing for impact and more. From an initial list of 42 initiatives, we narrowed down our selection to ten concepts we believe have significant potential for transforming philanthropy in the UK, as shown in the table below.
We at NPC hope to take some of these concepts forward ourselves; in particular, research-based giving circles, based on Dasra's model in India, and knowledge sharing within sectors, looking at whether the water and sanitation sector's online portal—WASHfunders.org—can be adapted to other sectors. But we hope the report also inspires others to try these and other approaches, so that ten years from now we can look back and confidently say that giving has been transformed as much as other areas to great effect.
Over the next few weeks, NPC will be writing a series of blogs on innovation within philanthropy, highlighting some key examples from the report. We welcome all your comments.
-- Plum Lomax
(Angela Hariche is the director of international data relations at the Foundation Center.)
Two weeks ago, I was down with the flu AND jetlagged so all I could manage to do in the evenings was get under a blanket and watch all 14 hours of "The Roosevelts" on PBS. I thought it was riveting and the timing of it was perfect. It has been a particularly busy time for us at the Foundation Center and there have been an inordinate amount of meetings and conferences around UN week. Happily, most of the people sharing a table with me at these events had also been watching "The Roosevelts". We all admitted that it nice to discuss something else other than the grind during the lunches and coffee breaks for once!
So, it was no surprise when Kathy Calvin, President of the UN Foundation said at a recent Ford Foundation event last Thursday, "Channel your inner Eleanor Roosevelt Post-2015". I think that was my best tweet all week. But what does that mean? Well, Eleanor certainly was a force. She was the driving force behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She was able to change things in the face of incredible resistance. Post-2015 is about what comes after the Millennium Development Goals which end in the year 2015.
The event brought together leaders from philanthropy, UN, business and civil society to talk about philanthropy and the role of the sector in the coming years. Brad Smith, President of the Foundation Center, and Helena Monteiro from Wings convened a session on the data revolution. The angle for this session was around the data and knowledge needed to a) get a better grip on what we know and don't know about funding for global development goals, b) how to get an accurate picture of development progress, c) how to build standards and trust so working together isn't so hard, d) how to climb the mountain of definitions when so many cultures (both organizational and geographic) name things differently, and e) how to remember that we are talking about people's lives here and citizen empowerment is paramount to success. It was noted during the session that 10 years ago nobody would have wanted to attend a session on data!
So what came out of it?
Brad Smith noted that there are more than 86,000 foundations in the US with total assets of close to 800 billion dollars and 55 billion in giving. This is about equal to US Official Development Assistance. Philanthropic dollars matter not only in their volume but also in their flexibility. Brad also noted that this is one of the last sources of money that isn't earmarked. However, if foundations are not forthcoming with their data, we will not be able to analyze the impact of the sector as a whole or on issues such as gender equality, education or any other. Foundations have to be more transparent if global progress is to be made.
To try to address the fact that we don't have anywhere near an accurate picture of development progress, a data revolution has been called for. The Secretary General of the UN has assembled a group of people who will advise him on the coordination of the data revolution, on better use and analysis of data and the difficulties faced by under- resourced national statistics offices. Several in the room noted that the strengthening of local knowledge systems is incredibly important. If more research can come from the local context, it will be more useful and fewer people will get left behind in an aggregation process.
Helena Monteiro presented the Global Philanthropy Data Charter as a way to address the issues of trust and standards when working with data. As an example of a project that used the Data charter to guide them is the International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG). Working together with Foundation Center, they came up with a standard definition of human rights grants, collected the data from foundations around the world, coded the grants and launched the website. Voila! Eleanor would be proud.
Finally, Danny Sriskandarajah of CIVICUS reminded us that storytelling, citizen voice and accountability will be key for post-2015 success. It was also noted that data is "development capital". If development data is available to citizens, they will be able to make their own informed decisions better.
At Foundation Center we are working hard on a project with UNDP, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, The Conrad Hilton Foundation, Ford Foundation and Master Card Foundation to collect foundation data and knowledge on Post-2015 goals for a publically available web portal, which will launch in June of 2015. If you are interested in channeling your inner Eleanor Roosevelt and being a part of it, please contact me at email@example.com.
--Angela Hariche
(Kandyce Fernandez is an assistant professor of public administration in the College of Public Policy at The University of Texas at San Antonio, and Mark Hager is associate professor of philanthropic studies in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University.)
The proposition that grantmaking foundations should be more transparent carries with it the underlying assumption that grantmaking foundations are not as transparent as we might like them to be. In a recent paper published in Public Administration Quarterly, we argue that many of us do not expect transparency from foundations since we think of them as private institutions, like a private company. We also argue that our transparency expectations and the behavior of foundations themselves might change if this prevailing presumption of private-ness were to change.
The Dominant View of Foundations
So, are grantmaking foundations private or public? This is a complicated question, and it's the one we spend most of the paper discussing. An important point is that there's a dominant, prevailing, what we call a 'hegemonic' view that since grantmaking foundations are not agents of government (and therefore 'public agencies'), they are private and therefore can act in a way that that is shielded from public scrutiny and participation. This holds for both independent and corporate foundations, and even community foundations are not expected to act in a fully public way.
As a consequence, the general public has little expectation for any level of engagement with foundations in their community. Grantees are grudgingly content with a one-way flow of information and strategic decision-making about how philanthropic resources are distributed in communities. The media asks few questions about what role foundations might play in regional development. And, perhaps most importantly, foundations themselves use the hegemonic view of privacy to justify closing themselves off from the communities where they reside.
What would change if we all understood foundations to be public rather than private institutions? Turns out that there's ample reason to think of them as public.
Competing Perspectives: A Political, Economic, and Social Context
For example, consider what we call the political context of grantmaking foundations. The political context distinguishes between efforts that serve the collective interest rather than the interests of individual or narrower groups in society. To the extent that grantmaking foundations assert multiple perspectives of the public interest, or provide resources to other nonprofits that do so, they serve in a largely public role as they utilize private resources for various public benefits. Their public role is further underlined when grantmaking foundations address those things government may not be able to do and where market actors choose not to engage. In these cases, foundations reflect a public role as they focus on other groups, interests, and issues.
An economic context also gives some credence to the view that foundations are public actors. The economic context considers whether benefits are distributed to the broader citizenry or to a narrower, specific group with special interests. While governmental benefits are said to serve the median interests within society, grantmaking foundations serve groups outside the median. In fact, this is one source of frequent praise: foundations can serve narrower, contested, or controversial groups, whereas government may lack the inclination to do so. Whereas independent foundations might tend to focus attention on narrower causes identified by a single donor, community foundations are increasingly more public because they are established to purposely seek out diverse donors and diverse causes.
Thirdly, we argue that social context provides a basis for viewing foundations as public actors. This context focuses on whether or not the work has consequences beyond those involved. Where decisions and activities will or are intended to impact a specific policy or issues, the work is said to be instrumental. On the other hand, where decisions and activities are meant to be supportive rather than impacting change, the work is considered expressive. To the extent that foundation activities strive for greater, longer-lasting instrumental impact on an issue or cause, we argue that they are more public than those that address issues with more immediate, short-term objectives. In other words, With the right marketing, the public, grantees, media, and foundations themselves might be led to recognize a greater degree of public-ness among grantmaking foundations.
Private Institutions with Public Expectations
Political, economic, and social contexts provide independent reasons why we might consider grantmaking foundations to be public institutions rather than private, challenging the dominant view. The nature of their accountability, the type of work, the extent of their reach, and their interest in impacting change or supporting issues renders them more public than private in some cases, and at minimum quasi-public institutions with a substantive public role. With the right marketing, the public, grantees, media, and foundations themselves might be led to recognize a greater degree of public-ness among grantmaking foundations.
The consequence, we believe, would be that people both inside and outside foundations would act differently. The public and grantees would see foundations as partners rather than private edifaces. The media would both expect and receive the kind of transparency from foundations that they need to make sense of the role that foundations play and the value they bring to communities. And, most tellingly, foundations would embrace a more open, participatory, and engaged role in social change efforts.
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(Caitlin Duffy is the project assistant for Philamplify at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP). Follow @NCRP and @DuffyInDC on Twitter and join the #Philamplify conversation. This post was originally published on the GrantCraft blog.)
If a foundation sees itself as accountable to the communities it serves, how can it be as transparent as possible about key decisions that affect those communities? While voluntary disclosure of financial information online is commendable and sorely needed in philanthropy, funders must expand their mindset of openness. There is a need for a comprehensive approach to transparency that goes beyond figures on a website; foundation leadership, from board members to staff, need to think critically about how to communicate their approaches and solicit feedback.
At the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), the complex relationship between transparency and accountability is at the center of Philamplify. Philamplify is a new initiative that brings honest feedback to grantmakers by conducting rigorous assessments of some of the country's top foundations. To prepare these reviews, our team combs through publications, searches online databases, reviews publicly available foundation documents, surveys hundreds of grantees, and interviews a wide array of stakeholders. In evaluating whether a foundation operates transparently, we look for disclosure of key information on the funder's website and through other avenues, such as Foundation Center's Glasspockets initiative. We publish the final assessments on philamplify.org, where readers can engage in a discussion about the findings and recommendations, thus opening the conversation beyond the confines of a typical foundation assessment to everyone whose lives are touched by grantmakers.
During the first round of assessments, many surveyed grantees spoke of how much they appreciate transparent communication with funders. Grant recipients consistently requested "three C's" relevant to transparency: convene, collaborate, and communicate. Such calls for increased contact with foundation staff are evidence of grantee interest in a partnership that goes beyond financial support. Transparency plays an important role in such a relationship. As shown by the Center for Effective Philanthropy's recent report, Foundation Transparency: What Nonprofits Want, nonprofits want more transparent communication about learning, assessment, and impact.
For example, grantees of the Philamplify-assessed Daniels Fund often spoke of the actual and potential value of site visits, e-mails, and phone calls with program officers and opportunities to speak with executive leadership. In regards to positive aspects of the partnership, one grantee wrote, "The Daniels Fund is one of the few funders that make an effort to visit with us, communicate with us on a regular basis, and maintain a relationship based on mutual concern for the populations we serve." However, some grantees conveyed concern about the apparent disconnect between program officers and executive leadership, particularly regarding the grant renewal process.
In our assessment of the William Penn Foundation, grantees and stakeholders expressed confusion over recent changes in leadership and strategic direction about which the foundation communicated ineffectively. Sample feedback included comments such as, "The status of the Foundation's recent strategic planning process could have been better communicated" and "The recent leadership transitions have raised question for the future of funding in this sector." In July, Nonprofit Quarterly reported that the foundation's managing director resigned, marking another major leadership change in less than six months. In such instances, the lack of transparency about what drove these major decisions unsettled grantees and influenced the perceptions of other important stakeholders, including peers.
In philanthropy, robust, authentic discussion and constructive debate challenge us all to improve and help ensure that we hold each other accountable to the public good. Grantees are vested in the success of their funders, and as evidenced by Philamplify's findings, they offer valuable lessons for the sector. When a funder engages in meaningful transparency, grantees and other philanthropic stakeholders benefit by better understanding the foundation's mission, operations, strategies, activities, and performance.
How does your foundation maintain transparent, two-way communication with grantees and the communities they serve?
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