Through a Presidents’ Grant, Kresge is supporting the development and early stage implementation of a communication strategy. We will also facilitate a working session with Kresge staff to discuss our findings and potential implications for the foundation.
Getting the Lay of the Land - Literature Review and Typology
The Team conducts a literature review identifying more than 50+ papers with relevance to equity and evaluation practice in philanthropy and beyond. This informs a revised typology for understanding current ways in which foundations integrate equity from which we prepared a landscape scan to identify interview candidates. Note: The literature review and typology will be available Winter 2017.
Starting Our Work - Project Launch
The EE Project Team comes together to review timeline and the research begins.
Funding by William K. Kellogg Foundation and The California Endowment
Core funding was generously provided by the William K. Kellogg Foundation as an example of their ongoing commitment to equity and advancing field knowledge and practice, particularly with regard to evaluation. The California Endowment also expressed their support with funding.
Partnering to Advance Practice - Luminare Group, CEI and The Johnson Center
In late 2014, Luminare Group reached out to CEI and The Johnson Center to gauge interest in designing a research project to explore the relationship of equity and evaluation practice in philanthropy. Given the positive reception and interest in TFR Race and Equity issue and related papers, discussions in the evaluation field about the role of culture, context and purpose and the efforts of D5, PREI, and others, we decided to move forward.
Evaluation as a Tool for Equity
As part of 3rd Thursday ABFE Webinar series, Jara Dean-Coffey presents an overview of equitable evaluation.
Follow this link to watch: https://youtu.be/_6OqetPmjm8
Equitable Evaluation - Integrating Cultural Competence and Equity
This webinar, presented to the Leadership Learning Community based on Raising the Bar - Integrating Cultural Competence and Equity: Equitable Evaluation, offered a way to integrate cultural competence and equity in evaluation practice and a capacity building approach, focused on philanthropy, to build the capacities and competencies to do so.
Raising the Bar: Cultural Competence and Equity - Equitable Evaluation and The Foundation Review Race and Equity Issue
In 2013, jdcPartnerships (now Luminare Group) began talking about the relationship between equity and evaluation in philanthropic practice with Tom Kelly (then Evaluation Director at Annie E. Casey Foundation). This initial research led to a broader interest and set of recommendations related to equity and evaluation in philanthropy purposes found in Raising the Bar – Integrating Cultural Competence and Equity: Equitable Evaluation.
In 2014, The Foundation Review Race and Equity special issue co-edited by the Association of Black Foundation Executives is published. This was followed by a series of webinars.