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Our Common Definition of High Performance
Without a thoughtfully developed, thoroughly vetted definition of “high performance,” any call for raising performance in our sector rings hollow.
Definition
Courageous, Adaptive Executive and Board Leadership
Leadership, the preeminent pillar of high performance, helps your organization embark on a journey to make it even stronger.
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Disciplined, People-Focused Management
Join forces to make your disciplined and people-focused management even stronger.
Practice Imperative
Well-Designed And Well-Implemented Programs And Strategies
Well-designed and well-implemented programs help the people and causes you serve.
Practice Imperative
Financial Health And Sustainability
Get on the path to long-term financial sustainability.
Practice Imperative
A Culture That Values Learning
Double down on developing a culture that values learning.
Practice Imperative
Internal Monitoring For Continuous Improvement
Internal data help you make decisions that leads to continuous improvement.
Practice Imperative
External Evaluation For Mission Effectiveness
External evaluation can help you ensure mission effectiveness.
Practice Imperative
Shining a Spotlight on Funders Investing in Grantees’ Performance
The Funding Performance campaign promotes and encourages funders willing to support their grantees’ learning and improvement—and open to learning and improving themselves. We seek to influence funders of all types—from CEOs of multibillion-dollar private foundations to program officers at community foundations to donor families addressing a cause of personal significance—to do even more to help their grantees improve their performance.
FUNDER PROFILE
Funders are like fingerprints: No two are exactly the same. Yet all funders have one thing in common: They want their grants to make a difference. There’s another common denominator. All funders—small and large, individual and institutional, local and global—come to realize that making a difference is harder than they thought.
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Einhorn believes that helping people strengthen their empathy muscles, from the earliest stages of life through adulthood, is critically important for building a healthy, cohesive society capable of solving big challenges.
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In the four years since Impetus-PEF began focusing on high performance, the organization’s leadership, management, and staff have built an enduring commitment to improving their own performance as well as that of their grantees. It’s relatively easy to challenge your grantees to improve their performance. It’s much harder to be introspective about your own.
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Wouldn’t it be nice if funders had a simple formula to help grantees become high-performance organizations? The Blagrave Trust is helping their grantees make the leap to high performance by combining intellectual rigor (brainpower) with humility and openness with its grantees (heart) and a deep commitment to listening to the young people it aims to serve (ears).
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In the 37 years since Benny Weingart passed away, his foundation has experienced profound transformation – from generous corporate giver to one of the most forward-looking changemakers in America.
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The story of the Mulago Foundation’s transition from arm’s-length checkwriter to a changemaker whose grantees praise how it supports their ability to perform at a high level is relevant for any foundation leader who is eager for impact.
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Businessman and philanthropist Duncan Campbell founded Friends of the Children some 25 years ago to make a meaningful, measurable difference in the lives of the most at-risk children growing up in difficult circumstances—much like his own.
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Venture Philanthropy Partners was created to find and support organizations that already had a good track record, strong leadership, and big aspirations – all for the benefit of the neediest young people in Greater Washington, DC.
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Raikes Foundation co-founders Jeff Raikes and Tricia Raikes apply a growth mindset to all of their work, whether it’s supporting their grantees, increasing equity, or strengthening philanthropy as a whole.
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Wilburforce’s Funding Performance formula sounds simple: Invest in organizational muscle. Invest for the long term. Invest in leaders. But there is nothing simple about the work Rose Letwin and her team have done and their approach to ecosystem conservation has led to meaningful successes.
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Dalio Education’s Connecticut Opportunity Project invests in and helps strengthen youth-serving organizations in Connecticut to help the nonprofits consistently and sustainably produce positive outcomes for disconnected and disengaged young people.
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