DOI
10.9707/1944-5660.1205
Key Points
· Knowledge development is an emerging field in philanthropy and sits at the convergence of movement toward engagement, data-based decision-making, and networked learning for social and policy change.
· This article explores five knowledge-development trajectories at one family foundation that has funded a long-term change initiative. The trajectories include tools and frames that have been developed for increasing organizational learning, beginning network learning, and informing both program and operations for enhanced strategy implementation.
· Making the organizational shift from entrenched notions of third-party evaluation to creating a diversified knowledge development approach opened up new opportunities to think and talk about value in philanthropic work.
· This article also chronicles knowledge development from its inception as a dedicated position within a foundation, and raises key challenges and questions that can be useful to other foundations considering a knowledge function.
Recommended Citation
Frusciante, A. (2014). Shifting From ‘Evaluation’ to Valuing: A Six-Year Example of Philanthropic Practice Change and Knowledge Development. The Foundation Review, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.9707/1944-5660.1205
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