Sarah Stachowiak
Biographic Data
| ID | 6852317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Stachowiak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Stachowiak |
| SIGNATURE | STACHOWIAK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Evaluation Innovation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Evaluating Efforts to Shift Power Through Listening
It is commonplace today for philanthropies to require grantee partners to have a community engagement strategy to ensure that the institution reflects the community that it serves. It is also incumbent on foundations to embrace the same intent. Alongside participatory practices, listening is an opportunity to level the power dynamics inherent to philanthropic practice. The BUILD Health Challenge® (BUILD) is an innovative funder collaborative desi…
Lost Causal
Editor’s Note: This article, first published in print and online in 2022, has been republished by The Foundation Review with minor updates. What if philanthropic evaluations told us that changes in the world had occurred, as well as how and why they occurred, including whether what foundations funded and grantees did contributed to those changes? What if evaluations made change pathways more visible, tested hypotheses and assumptions, and generat…
Executive Summaries
This article describes the Transformative Impact Model, an approach to donor-led giving employed by the Wynn Resorts Foundation. In support of two capital improvement projects for a pair of nonprofits in Las Vegas, Nevada, the foundation lent its expertise, and leveraged its professional network to encourage and coordinate in-kind donations and cash gifts. In addition, the foundation's engagement of leadership and front
Lost Causal
What if philanthropic evaluations told us that changes in the world had occurred, as well as how and why they occurred, including in what ways foundation funding and grantees contributed to those changes? What if evaluations made change pathways more visible, tested hypotheses and assumptions, and generated new insights based on what happened in the “black box” of systems change strategies? This type of learning comes from causal analysis — inqui…
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Executive Summaries
This article describes the Transformative Impact Model, an approach to donor-led giving employed by the Wynn Resorts Foundation. In support of two capital improvement projects for a pair of nonprofits in Las Vegas, Nevada, the foundation lent its expertise, and leveraged its professional network to encourage and coordinate in-kind donations and cash gifts. In addition, the foundation's engagement of leadership and front
Lost Causal
What if philanthropic evaluations told us that changes in the world had occurred, as well as how and why they occurred, including in what ways foundation funding and grantees contributed to those changes? What if evaluations made change pathways more visible, tested hypotheses and assumptions, and generated new insights based on what happened in the “black box” of systems change strategies? This type of learning comes from causal analysis — inqui…
Lost Causal
Editor’s Note: This article, first published in print and online in 2022, has been republished by The Foundation Review with minor updates. What if philanthropic evaluations told us that changes in the world had occurred, as well as how and why they occurred, including whether what foundations funded and grantees did contributed to those changes? What if evaluations made change pathways more visible, tested hypotheses and assumptions, and generat…
Evaluating Efforts to Shift Power Through Listening
It is commonplace today for philanthropies to require grantee partners to have a community engagement strategy to ensure that the institution reflects the community that it serves. It is also incumbent on foundations to embrace the same intent. Alongside participatory practices, listening is an opportunity to level the power dynamics inherent to philanthropic practice. The BUILD Health Challenge® (BUILD) is an innovative funder collaborative desi…
Political science (4 works) · Business (2 works) · Causal analysis (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Management (2 works) · Mythology (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Causal inference (1 work)