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The Soft Stuff Doesn’t Have to be Hard: Foundation Investments in Grantee Workers are Necessary, Valuable, and Measurable<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This 2022 journal article offers framing, data points, and analysis of a dozen foundation-commissioned evaluations that examine the value created when funders invest in leadership development and other staff support and development systems for nonprofits. It uses research by Fund the People, was written by Rusty Stahl, and published in The Foundation Review, a peer-review journal written by and for funders and evaluators.<\/p>\n There is an emerging body of evidence that talent-investing can produce value for nonprofits, the communities they serve, and the funders who support them. Here we offer a curated collection of evaluative reports that have been commissioned by funders to assess their interventions to strengthen staff development in grantee institutions and the wider nonprofit workforce. These studies offer powerful data that show how intentional talent-investments by funders can yield significant advancements in organizational performance, program impact, and institutional sustainability.<\/p>\n Here are links to a sampling of the evaluation reports discussed in the article:<\/p>\n Five-Year Evaluation of the Flexible Leadership Awards<\/strong><\/a> (For more related content, check out our Field Story about Haas Jr. Fund )<\/a> Creative Disruption: Sabbaticals for Capacity Building and Leadership Development in the Nonprofit Sector<\/strong> From Creative Disruption to Systems Change:\u00a0A 20-Year Retrospective on the\u00a0Durfee Foundation Sabbatical Program<\/strong><\/a> The Pathway to Leadership: Lessons from Clinic Leadership Institute<\/strong><\/a> Preparing the Clinic Leaders of Tomorrow<\/strong> Brief Assessment of The Irvine Foundation’s Fund for Leadership Advancement<\/strong><\/a> Creating Broader Impact: The Bush Foundation Fellowships – How Individuals Contribute to the Strength of Communities, Institutions and Fields<\/a><\/strong> Strengthening Leadership and Advocacy in Population and Reproductive Health<\/b><\/a> <\/p>\n If you know of additional evaluation reports or data sources that might be appropriate to add to this compilation, please let us know<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Soft Stuff Doesn’t Have to be Hard: Foundation Investments in Grantee Workers are Necessary, Valuable, and Measurable This 2022 journal article offers framing, data points, and analysis of a dozen foundation-commissioned evaluations that examine the value created when funders invest in leadership development and other staff support and development systems for nonprofits. It … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":291,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1125","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8xk77-i9","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundthepeople.org\/toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundthepeople.org\/toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundthepeople.org\/toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundthepeople.org\/toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundthepeople.org\/toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/fundthepeople.org\/toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/fundthepeople.org\/toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1125\/revisions\/1881"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundthepeople.org\/toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundthepeople.org\/toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Bill Ryan \/ Commissioned by Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>By Deborah Linnell and Tim Wolfred \/ commissioned by Alston-Bannerman Fellowship, Barr Foundation, Durfee Foundation, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, and Rasmuson Foundation<\/p>\n
\nBy Deborah Linnell, Liz Russell, and Kim Dam \/ commissioned by Durfee Foundation<\/p>\n
\nBy BTW informing change \/ commissioned by Blue Shield of California Foundation<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>By BTW informing change \/ commissioned by Blue Shield of California Foundation<\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/em>By Harder + Company \/ commissioned by The Irvine Foundation<\/p>\n
\nBy Susan Showalter and Vicki Itzkowitz \/ commissioned by Bush Foundation<\/p>\n
\nBy<\/span> Institute for International Education (IIE) \/ commissioned by <\/span>John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation<\/span><\/p>\n