This study profiles the engagement of policy-focused Canadian grantmaking foundations in public policy. Policy-focused foundations now realize that downstream community issues are not isolated from upstream policy and regulatory practices. Foundation policy engagement has been measured across five policy streams: research and issue identification; policy entrepreneurship and convening; advocacy; implementation; and evaluation and impact. Themes emerging from this research include: 1) a migration from program into policy engagement; 2) the utilization of multiple soft and hard policy tools; 3) simultaneous engagement across multiple policy streams; 4) engagement with both systems and agents; 5) engagement in policy implementation; and 6) a l...
Information and reporting issues are more present than ever in a context of accountability pressures...
There have been calls for more diffused policy advisory systems where a plurality of actors, particu...
There have been calls for more diffused policy advisory systems where a plurality of actors, particu...
This dissertation elucidates the policy roles of foundations in Canadian public policy by comparing ...
This dissertation elucidates the policy roles of foundations in Canadian public policy by comparing ...
This guide is a resource for funders considering public policy work. In this guide you will find 1)...
This article, co-authored by Maximilian Martin, Global Head, UBS Philanthropy Services, and Greg Hil...
Foundations trying to better leverage their influence and improve their impact increasingly are bein...
While Canada has experienced a long and successful history of encouraging social participation and c...
Over the past five years, advocacy and public policy grantmaking has moved away from supporting indi...
The Foundation Center's first report benchmarking the level of engagement of U.S. foundations in pol...
Various analysts have raised concerns respecting declining research, evaluation and analytical capac...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2021Philanthropic foundations are not merely patrons that ...
Recently, there have been a number of Canadian-based studies of federal and provincial government po...
This article presents a framework for evaluating a foundation’s role in complex policy-change effort...
Information and reporting issues are more present than ever in a context of accountability pressures...
There have been calls for more diffused policy advisory systems where a plurality of actors, particu...
There have been calls for more diffused policy advisory systems where a plurality of actors, particu...
This dissertation elucidates the policy roles of foundations in Canadian public policy by comparing ...
This dissertation elucidates the policy roles of foundations in Canadian public policy by comparing ...
This guide is a resource for funders considering public policy work. In this guide you will find 1)...
This article, co-authored by Maximilian Martin, Global Head, UBS Philanthropy Services, and Greg Hil...
Foundations trying to better leverage their influence and improve their impact increasingly are bein...
While Canada has experienced a long and successful history of encouraging social participation and c...
Over the past five years, advocacy and public policy grantmaking has moved away from supporting indi...
The Foundation Center's first report benchmarking the level of engagement of U.S. foundations in pol...
Various analysts have raised concerns respecting declining research, evaluation and analytical capac...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2021Philanthropic foundations are not merely patrons that ...
Recently, there have been a number of Canadian-based studies of federal and provincial government po...
This article presents a framework for evaluating a foundation’s role in complex policy-change effort...
Information and reporting issues are more present than ever in a context of accountability pressures...
There have been calls for more diffused policy advisory systems where a plurality of actors, particu...
There have been calls for more diffused policy advisory systems where a plurality of actors, particu...