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A few months ago, I shared news with our clients that I now want to share with my larger network: I will be sunsetting Open Impact at the end of 2024 to accept an exciting new role with The Sobrato Organization (TSO). I will serve as both its first Chief Impact Officer and the President […]
As we begin 2024, our firm is doubling down on supporting founders and families as you explore how to develop governance systems that align to your philanthropic aspirations and increase your impact. “Governance,” the structures and processes for decision making, accountability, and control, may sound like a dull topic for us to be so fired […]
If you missed our workshop at the National Center for Family Philanthropy’s Leadership Retreat in Park City in November, read on for our framework for managing change within philanthropies that will limit friction and build excitement. A worksheet to help you plan for change is available for download. Over the years, we’ve found that leaders […]
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A few months ago, I shared news with our clients that I now want to share with my larger network: I will be sunsetting Open Impact at the end of 2024 to accept an exciting new role with The Sobrato Organization (TSO). I will serve as both its first Chief Impact Officer and the President […]
As we begin 2024, our firm is doubling down on supporting founders and families as you explore how to develop governance systems that align to your philanthropic aspirations and increase your impact. “Governance,” the structures and processes for decision making, accountability, and control, may sound like a dull topic for us to be so fired […]
If you missed our workshop at the National Center for Family Philanthropy’s Leadership Retreat in Park City in November, read on for our framework for managing change within philanthropies that will limit friction and build excitement. A worksheet to help you plan for change is available for download. Over the years, we’ve found that leaders […]
As we look ahead to 2023, this digest provides an easy way to bring you up to speed on the ideas, stories, and trends of 2022.
As NCFP’s new CEO took the helm, the landscape of philanthropy was—and continues to be—changing rapidly; with COVID-19, questions of relevance, equity, and power taking center stage for both philanthropies and philanthropy-serving organizations. In launching a fully virtual, adaptive strategy process with Open Impact, NCFP sought to harness these shifts, scale its field-level impact, and expand and deepen its support of a diverse set of family philanthropies.
The Conrad Prebys Foundation is the largest private grantmaking foundation in San Diego County, with $1.6B in assets and nearly $100M in grant commitments in 2021 alone. As a newer philanthropy, the Board of Directors partnered with Open Impact to define its legacy of impact and support its Board to align around its future focus areas in order to lay the groundwork for bringing onboard a new CEO.
With an ambition to significantly accelerate his family foundation’s grantmaking, the Founder of AMBFF engaged Open Impact to partner with his family in defining what its future impact would look like. Once this initial planning work was complete, Open Impact worked with the Foundation’s new President to engage the Board in a process of deeper learning and high level strategy setting for each new focus area.
Lifts up the voices and transformative practices of those in philanthropy leading the way toward a more caring, connected, and equitable region. The report includes case studies that demonstrate how many leading funders have already moved from addressing symptoms to also shifting systems.
Shares rich lessons learned by a cohort of Bay Area social and racial justice leaders who have scaled their impact by building movements, harnessing social media, and collaborating in networks to change systems over the past decade.
Reports on the groundbreaking efforts of a national network of pooled funding initiatives for sustained collaboration: mergers, joint ventures, partnerships, and other arrangements that permanently change an organization’s business or operating model.
Shares key lessons for supporting cross-sector collaboration, community capacity-building, and civic innovation in service of systems change, based on our experience running the New Leadership Network (NLN) in the Central Valley of California.
Discusses the potential of institutional foundations to more effectively address some of the most urgent issues of our day by enlisting new donors as critical stakeholders and partners in their work to help scale and accelerate their giving.
Demystifies the elusive concept of organizational culture and provides practical examples of what social impact leaders can do to drive higher performance and healthier cultures.
Offers research insights on the struggles of nonprofit leaders in the current political and economic environment and calls on philanthropists to be more adaptive and supportive in their response.
Documenting a groundbreaking five-year effort, Pioneers in Justice shares many rich lessons as Bay Area social justice leaders work to scale their impact, building social movements through social media and networked action.
Based on 50+ interviews with UHNW individuals, seeks to understand their barriers and motivations to giving, and ways to accelerate their journey.
Shares key lessons learned from the Irvine New Leadership Network, which supported cross-sector collaboration and civic innovation in the Central Valley of California.
Presents quantitative and qualitative data about growing wealth and philanthropy in Silicon Valley, including groundbreaking insights on what donors in the region give to, and offers frameworks for understanding and bridging the divides with local community-based organizations.
A framework outlining the new skills and mindsets leaders need to drive large-scale change and transformation in a world where our problems are scaling faster than our solutions.
Written by Heather Mcleod Grant, this bestseller reveals the six powerful practices that twelve high-impact nonprofits use to change the world and shares their compelling stories of success. Over a decade after first publication, the book is taught in many nonprofit leadership courses and programs around the globe.
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