From Best Practice to Common Practice
The June 2015 issue of Alliance magazine features an interview with former OE Director Kathy Reich about the Fund for Shared Insight, a collaboration among seven funders that pools financial and other resources to make grants to improve philanthropy. The Fund for Shared Insight provides grants to nonprofit organizations to encourage and incorporate feedback from…
A Call to Action for Funders: Listen, Reflect, and Learn
The following blog post was originally posted by OE Director Kathy Reich on the Center for Effective Philanthropy blog: Every September and October, I spend a lot of time in synagogue. The Jewish holidays Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are a time of intense reflection for Jews about where we’ve fallen short as human beings,…
Listening
Listening. It is important for philanthropy and business and parenting and just people. No problem. I’m good at listening. (At least that is what I thought until I took a deeper dive into facilitation at a workshop led by David Barkan at the Hewlett Foundation last week.) My new self-assessment: I’m good at parts of…