Welcome New Content Partners

By Dara Major

 

At LearnPhilanthropy,we’re bringing the community of learners and learning providers together,in a central hub,to share resources and insights on good practice.

One way we’re doing this is by reaching out to folks across the field – to inquire about their priorities,share our vision,and find areas of [...]

Adventures in Co-Creation:Help Us Create a Real Simple Taxonomy!

By Dara Major

At LearnPhilanthropy,we’re working to bring together the wealth of research,resources and ideas on what constitutes good philanthropic practice from high-quality sources across the sector.

To help fuel great searches across this site,we’re developing a general-purpose taxonomy –we call it our Real Simple Taxonomy.

Great content needs a great search –[...]

Toward a Real Simple Taxonomy

 

creative commons:by NatalieMaynor

By Dara Major

LearnPhilanthropy was launched on the widely-held premise that there *is* an existing learning marketplace for grantmakers (which includes regional associations,affinity groups,universities,advisory firms,and others) – but this marketplace is somewhat fragmented.

At LearnPhilanthropy,we’re working to bring together the wealth of research,resources [...]

Building LearnPhilanthropy’s Catalogue:Observations (Yours and Ours)

what are the right buckets for organizing information?

By Dara Major

The poet Wallace Stevens once said,“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”

Catalogues are about reality. Classification,fixed concepts and fixed significance.

As philanthropic practitioners know,however,grantmaking –in some areas –defies easy classification.

At LearnPhilanthropy,we’re [...]

Developing a First-Cut,Field-Wide Learning Catalogue:Calling All Content Partners

LearnPhilanthropy is a hub where anyone in philanthropy can pool learning to increase impact – whether you’re a learner or learning provider,researcher,staff member,trustee,donor or advisor.

At LearnPhilanthropy,we don’t want to duplicate what others are doing – we want to shine a spotlight on it. We’d like to bring the highly [...]

Visualizing Learning in Philanthropy

We’re in what Lucy Bernholz has called a “data deluge decade.” One way to convey a fire hose of complex information quickly and clearly is through graphics. While it’s challenging to roll up particularly qualitative data in this way,a great information graphic can nonetheless help demonstrate linkages,highlight gaps and even pave the [...]

Mapping the Field of (Learning) Dreams:LearnPhilanthropy and You

Help us to create the first-ever directory of learning providers in philanthropy – we need your input to make it comprehensive! Check out our current List of Learning Providers

LearnPhilanthropy is an open,collaborative network where anyone in philanthropy can pool their learning to increase their impact –whether you’re a learner or learning provider,[...]