Summary Descriptors of Case Study Foundations
- Leadership is committed to achieving deep diversity
- Leadership works to add diverse trustees on board
- Leadership and staff work to add diverse staff members
- Gender is understood to be a key piece of deep diversity
- Board and staff understand how differences like race, class, and gender “intersect”
- Board and staff use a “gender lens” in grant making
- Leadership allows organization to change to fit new board and staff members
- Board and staff committed to learning new skills to communicate across differences
- Board and staff committed to “institutionalizing” gendered cultural competence
- Board comfortable taking risks
- Staff comfortable taking risks
- Staff partner with grantees where possible
- Leadership seeks external input to grant-making guidelines
- Leadership seeks external input to grant-making decisions
- Leadership committed to “responsive” grant making, fewer requests for proposals (RFPs)
- Staff encouraged to provide core support
- Foundation can fund some grantees longer than three years
- Foundation can fund some grantees longer than five years
- Foundation can fund some grantees longer than ten years
- Foundation works to leverage other funders’ support for grantees
- Staff monitors grantee diversity
- Foundation does internal evaluation of grant making
- Foundation does external evaluation of grant making