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Jeri Eckhart Queenan
New York, New York, United States
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Jeri is a Senior Advisor at The Bridgespan Group, a global nonprofit consulting firm that…
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❓How does your faith background inform your leadership aspirations? We invited students, staff, and faculty at Harvard Business School to consider…
❓How does your faith background inform your leadership aspirations? We invited students, staff, and faculty at Harvard Business School to consider…
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Profound article by Rob Shepardson, co-founder of SS+K, shining a light on leaders who shift from anger and division to radical empathy and moral…
Profound article by Rob Shepardson, co-founder of SS+K, shining a light on leaders who shift from anger and division to radical empathy and moral…
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📢 Delighted to have been appointed as WWF-UK’s new Chief Adviser for Latin America. Super excited to work more closely with all our partners…
📢 Delighted to have been appointed as WWF-UK’s new Chief Adviser for Latin America. Super excited to work more closely with all our partners…
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Elevating the Role of Faith-Inspired Impact in the Social Sector
The Bridgespan Group
As varied as faith traditions are, many share a common concern
with fighting poverty and elevating recognition of our shared
humanity. Indeed, faith-inspired organizations serve as the
bulwark of the social safety net for the most vulnerable among
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Five Foundations Address the "Starvation Cycle"
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Presidents of five leading foundations have agreed to experiment with practices and policies to address chronic underfunding of their grantees’ indirect costs. Said one president: “We have engaged because we have a responsibility to put forward solutions. That’s a breakthrough.”
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Pay-What-It-Takes-Philanthropy
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Despite years of conversation around the topic of funding the real cost of programs, many grantmakers continue to pay flat—and too low—overhead rates regardless of a their grantees’ actual needs. "Pay-what-it-takes" philanthropy looks to remedy the situation by providing a flexible approach to funding, grounded in real costs. By taking into account the true dollars needed, this new approach has the potential to shift funding from programs and services to what it actually takes to create impact.…
Despite years of conversation around the topic of funding the real cost of programs, many grantmakers continue to pay flat—and too low—overhead rates regardless of a their grantees’ actual needs. "Pay-what-it-takes" philanthropy looks to remedy the situation by providing a flexible approach to funding, grounded in real costs. By taking into account the true dollars needed, this new approach has the potential to shift funding from programs and services to what it actually takes to create impact. It's time to break the "starvation cycle," a vexing pattern of underfunding and underinvesting that prevents countless nonprofits from maximizing their impact.
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Designing for Transformative Scale: Global Lessons in What Works
Rotman School of Management Magazine
Sector leaders around the globe are on a quest to dramatically scale the impact—not the size—of their organizations and programs. In this Rotman School of Management magazine article, the authors explore nine strategies global organizations are using to address massive unmet needs. Regardless of the strategy, three principles stand out as indispensable for laying the groundwork for transformative scale.
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Bringing a 'culture of measurement' to women's economic empowerment
Devex
Real-time course correction is the new gold standard of measuring impact – and the promise that big data brings to international development.
In its five-year program 10,000 Women, Goldman Sachs helped realize some of those promises, according to Jeri Eckhart Queenan, a partner at the Bridgespan Group, which developed a performance management system for the initiative. -
The Global Push to Unlock the Potential of Women Entrepreneurs
The Bridgespan Group
Globally, women own and operate an estimated 10 million small and midsized enterprises, yet they are underrepresented as business owners and underserved by banks and government policy makers. However, recognition of the barriers and benefits of supporting women-owned enterprises has spread in recent years, leading to the creation of a number of public, private, and social sector initiatives aimed at strengthening women-owned businesses.
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Donations to Global Charities Too Often Come With Strings
The Chronicle of Philosophy
Governments and donors often look to nonprofits to improve the education and health of the world’s poorest people. Yet the money that flows so generously to these global organizations often comes with strings that deny nonprofits the general operating support they need to live up to their potential to expand programs that work.
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Global NGOs Spend More on Accounting Than Multinationals
The Bridgespan Group
Generous funders have fueled the spectacular growth of global NGOs in recent years. But the money comes with strings that thwart these organizations’ ability to create the platforms for scale needed to solve global problems.
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Ten Thousand Strong
The Bridgespan Group
This case study from Business Strategy Review shares five key lessons from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women initiative to create an effective performance measurement approach and shows why signature philanthropic initiatives should build measurement into their programs from Day 1.
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Measurement as Learning
The Bridgespan Group
Measurement has become an increasingly hot topic as more funders want to know how their money is being used and as nonprofits undertake evaluations to prove that their programs work. But one of the most important uses of measurement is to improve performance, or performance measurement.
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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy
Harvard Business Review Blog Network
Given that companies are putting more than $14 billion a year into charitable causes, measuring results and ensuring real social impact should be important goals.
A few corporate leaders are realizing these goals, including Goldman Sachs, Nike and Intel. To do this they apply the same discipline to their charitable work that they do to their core business — insisting on strategic focus, investing at scale and measuring results.Other authorsSee publication -
Tapping into the Board's Talents
BoardSource
Nonprofits benefit greatly from investing the time to develop sound business plans. The business planning process helps an organization explore the many facets that define and influence the impact it intends to have, and encourages thoughtful consideration of how to measure progress and allocate resources to achieve its goals. It is within this important process that board members can offer valuable insight, often providing crucial objectivity, and diverse skills that can inform the process…
Nonprofits benefit greatly from investing the time to develop sound business plans. The business planning process helps an organization explore the many facets that define and influence the impact it intends to have, and encourages thoughtful consideration of how to measure progress and allocate resources to achieve its goals. It is within this important process that board members can offer valuable insight, often providing crucial objectivity, and diverse skills that can inform the process. Furthermore, board members involved in the business planning process are better-informed when making decisions during plan implementation. This article, which, originally appeared in BoardSource, shares how boards can become assets to the organizations they serve, and suggests ways they can add value during the three stages of the planning process: strategic thinking, strategic decisions, and implementation preparation.
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White House Fellows Alumni Association
Former President and CEO
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