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How Well Do You Listen to Grantees?
By Ruth Masterson, Exponent Philanthropy According to Exponent Philanthropy’s recent member survey report, our foundation members often want to learn about “gathering feedback about the foundation...
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Help Your Board Members (or Anyone) Be Open to New Ideas
By Ruth Masterson, Exponent Philanthropy Is your foundation board stuck or complacent? Have you been wanting board members to consider a new strategy or project, only to find they just aren’t willing...
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6 Ways to Champion Change From the Inside Out
By Ruth Masterson, Exponent Philanthropy Do you want to catalyze change at your foundation? Perhaps you want to improve board dynamics, refine your mission, or implement new technology. Many forces...
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Foundation Benchmarking Demystified
By Ruth Masterson, Exponent Philanthropy Are you uncertain whether your foundation is benchmarking to its fullest advantage? Do you wonder if you should do more? Benchmarking can be a simple,...
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Find Out What It’s Like on Your Grantees’ Side of the Table
By Ruth Masterson, Exponent Philanthropy Eager to pilot our new Grantee and Applicant Perception Survey with her grantees, Meg Ramsey (The Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation, Lincoln, MA) was...
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Women’s Salaries and the Gender Pay Gap in Philanthropy
By Ruth Masterson, Exponent Philanthropy There is a disparity between what men and women earn in philanthropy, at least as indicated by responses to our member survey in the area of foundation...
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Creative Grantmaking Done Legally
By Ruth Masterson, Exponent Philanthropy Your foundation can be extremely imaginative while still keeping its grantmaking straightforward. Or it can take full advantage of the tax code’s flexibility...
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Take a Fresh Look at Feedback
By Ruth Masterson, Exponent Philanthropy As you engage in your philanthropy—working with grantees, applicants, board members, and, in many foundations, staff—you’re giving and receiving feedback all...
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Foundation CEOs Experience Gender Pay Gap
By Ruth Masterson, Exponent Philanthropy Today is Equal Pay Day, the day when women’s earnings “catch up” to men’s earnings from the previous year. The average American woman would have to continue to...
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Data, Trends, and the Value of Written Foundation Policies
By Ruth Masterson, Exponent Philanthropy I can’t count the number of times a member has called with a sticky situation—how to handle a conflict of interest, or a board member not pulling his or her...
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