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		<title>Reflections on Impact</title>
		<link>http://philanthrofiles.org/2013/11/11/reflections-on-impact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Gerald P. McCarthy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerald P. McCarthy, formerly of Virginia Environmental Endowment Gerald (Jerry) McCarthy recently retired after serving for 36 years as executive director of Virginia Environmental Endowment, a private grantmaking institution whose work focuses on environmental conservation. Jerry participated in ASF’s Impact Working Group since its creation in 2011, and we asked for his reflections on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=3601&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Doesn&#8217;t Have To Be a Bad Word</title>
		<link>http://philanthrofiles.org/2013/10/28/strategic-doesnt-have-to-be-a-bad-word/</link>
		<comments>http://philanthrofiles.org/2013/10/28/strategic-doesnt-have-to-be-a-bad-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ASF]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact & Evaluation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sara Beggs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Getting to Impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hau’oli Mau Loa Foundation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paul Brest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strategic philanthropy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Sara Beggs, ASF The fundamental tenets of strategic philanthropy are that funders and their grantees should have clear goals, strategies based on sound theories of change, and robust methods for assessing progress toward their goals.—Paul Brest, former president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and advocate of strategic philanthropy  Recent debates among philanthropic thought [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=3535&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impact Takes Intentionality</title>
		<link>http://philanthrofiles.org/2013/10/04/impact-takes-intentionality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 15:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ASF]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact & Evaluation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sara Beggs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evaluation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sara Beggs, ASF Over the past 5 years, 70 committed ASF members have explored the path to impact in small-staff philanthropy and worked to make impact more accessible to funders. We’re delighted to share some of the Impact Working Group’s insights in this and future posts, and in a section of ASF’s website dedicated to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=3508&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Convince Your Board to Pursue Greater Impact</title>
		<link>http://philanthrofiles.org/2013/08/14/convince-your-board-to-pursue-greater-impact/</link>
		<comments>http://philanthrofiles.org/2013/08/14/convince-your-board-to-pursue-greater-impact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sara Beggs, ASF If we’re not actively pursuing real impact with everything we’ve got, we’re simply processing paper and redistributing assets. Why settle for that when we can see and participate in real change? —Emily Hull-Parsons, The William McCaskey Chapman &#38; Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation I bet you’re convinced that your foundation can accomplish more [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=3501&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gauge Your Total Philanthropic Impact</title>
		<link>http://philanthrofiles.org/2013/07/10/gauge-your-total-philanthropic-impact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Henry Berman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Henry Berman, ASF I hear lots of talk about measuring philanthropic impact, and it often focuses on the metrics of a funded program or organization: How many children were served? By what percentage did (fill in the blank) change? But how many of us truly use this information to help our grantees or increase the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=3456&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Continual Learning Through Intention and Evaluation</title>
		<link>http://philanthrofiles.org/2013/05/14/continual-learning-through-intention-and-evaluation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ASF]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colleen O'Keefe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impact & Evaluation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Colleen O&#8217;Keefe, Sauer Children&#8217;s Renew Foundation Originally posted in Giving Forum, Minnesota Council on Foundations&#8217;  free, quarterly newspaper. Sauer Children’s Renew Foundation, a member of MCF and ASF, is committed to improving the lives of disadvantaged children and their families.  The Sauer Children’s Renew Foundation is a small family foundation with a mission to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=3400&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Your Way to Impact: Holding Up the Mirror</title>
		<link>http://philanthrofiles.org/2013/01/31/ask-your-way-to-impact-holding-up-the-mirror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ASF]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lindsay Matush]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lindsay Matush, The Brown Sisters Foundation In her previous posts on PhilanthroFiles, ASF member Lindsay Matush shared the questions for nonprofits and questions for fellow funders that informed her foundation’s pursuit of impact. Here she discusses the value of adding self-assessment to the dialogue. The best path to impact lies at the intersection of effectiveness, capacity, and passion. As [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=2990&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How a Small Foundation Made a Big Impact on a Government Program &#8211; Part II</title>
		<link>http://philanthrofiles.org/2012/08/13/how-a-small-foundation-made-a-big-impact-on-a-government-program-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://philanthrofiles.org/2012/08/13/how-a-small-foundation-made-a-big-impact-on-a-government-program-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ASF]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grantmaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynne O’Hara]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lynne O’Hara, The Special Hope Foundation In Part One of her blog, Lynne O’Hara described how she used landscape scanning to help her board see the benefits of a high-risk grant that was very different from The Special Hope Foundation’s usual direct service grants. The grant was to fund SmartWorks, a computerized system to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=1855&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Khan Academy: An Inspiration for Philanthropy</title>
		<link>http://philanthrofiles.org/2012/08/08/khan-academy-an-inspiration-for-philanthropy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ASF]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ted Adams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ted Adams, ASF If the name Sal Khan doesn’t ring a bell, check out Time Magazine’s annual list of The 100 Most Influential People in the World. Or ask my ten-year-old to tell you about Mr. Khan’s video on the Revolutionary War and subtracting fractions. Salman Amin &#8216;Sal&#8217; Khan is the founder of the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=1799&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making a Big Impact with a Small Grant</title>
		<link>http://philanthrofiles.org/2012/07/17/making-a-big-impact-with-a-small-grant/</link>
		<comments>http://philanthrofiles.org/2012/07/17/making-a-big-impact-with-a-small-grant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ASF]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gary Castagnola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impact & Evaluation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Castagnola, Ellen &#38; Clarence Peterson Foundation The following ASF member story was posted to the ASF Discussion List recently in response to the question: How has your foundation been able to create change, even without a large grant budget? Additional stories and like this will be shared at ASF’s 2012 National Conference in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=philanthrofiles.org&#038;blog=32236902&#038;post=1664&#038;subd=philanthrofiles&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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