Two years ago, Mladen Jovanović, one of three founders of PROTECTA, a Serbian NGO, took my online executive program on strategic frameworks for NGO leaders. His analysis of the organization’s strategic challenges reflected the mission
The ever-growing complexity of our social sector, together with the power of the Internet and the disengagement of government, has created a decentralized model of social change. As a result, the linear logic models and theories of
The shift away from a philanthropic paradigm based on demonstration projects and government-sponsored replication has also fundamentally altered the role of evaluation in philanthropy.
In the past, evaluation may have been the lynchpin to scaling social impact
Multiple elements of a new paradigm have emerged, although they have not yet gelled into a coherent alternative to the old paradigm and, therefore, have not yet replaced it.
One element of the new paradigm is the
Last Wednesday the Center had the honor of hosting Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as he presented before the Foundation Impact Research Group.
Mr. Ibargüen’s talk centered on
This is the first in a series of explorations into the shifting paradigm that shapes our understanding of philanthropy.
