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Journal Article
End-Game Evaluation: Building a Legacy of Learning In a Limited-Life Foundation
2017
Overview
Foundation, this urgency has helped generate demand and attention for evaluation, ensuring that it is adequately prioritized, resourced, and concentrated in areas where the opportunities for learning and influence are greatest. [...]enlisting the attention of program staff is difficult; no matter how well they understand and believe in the importance of evaluation, the time-sensitive demands of their grantmaking responsibilities can hamper their ability to focus on it. In this context, we have found that a proactive approach to evaluation planning and implementation is essential. Because time is short, it is a consideration in every aspect of the planning process - from what to prioritize (see Hypothesis 4), to which methods to use (see Hypothesis 6), and even how to prepare for contingencies, knowing that time will limit the range of course corrections at our disposal. Big Programmatic Bets Create Big Opportunities for Learning - and Accelerating Impact By definition, when a foundation spends down it liquidates and distributes all of its assets, and, as a result, it typically operates with a far larger grantmaking budget during its final years than it would if it remained perpetual. With these resources, a limited-life foundation may be able to place \"big bets\" to advance solutions to societal problems within a defined time frame.1 Big bets play a central role in Atlantic's grantmaking; a Bridgespan study found that Atlantic has directed 50 percent more of these investments to social-change causes than other U.S. philanthropies, on average (Powell, Huang, Foster, Boyd, & Sakaue, 2016).2 Similarly,...
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Grand Valley State University,Grand Valley State University, on Behalf of the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy
