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Effective Philanthropy: Organizational Success Through Deep Diversity and Gender Equality by Mary Ellen Capek & Molly Mead and published by The MIT Press

This well-researched book is a project of Women & Philanthropy (with the generous support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation) and demonstrates how foundations, nonprofits, and organizations in other sectors can be more effective by institutionalizing a deeper understanding of diversity and gender and offers strategies for strengthening organizations through a commitment to diversity and gender equality.

“Deep diversity is not just about doing the right thing,” says Capek. “It’s about making organizations more effective, about having impact.” Offering demographics, case studies, strategic funding initiatives, theoretical analyses, and original research, Effective Philanthropyconvincingly documents how stale conventions and old habits—what the authors call “Norm”—undermine innovation. By “Naming Norm” and institutionalizing what the book calls “deep diversity,” organizations can cut through the dead wood of unnamed assumptions and learn to tap “differences that divide us”—race, class, gender, sexual orientation, geography, age, religion, physical ability, and others—to become more effective.

In turn, organizations gain access to a wider range of available resources, both inside and outside their doors. The book describes detailed case studies of effective foundations and model programs that have moved beyond “doing the right thing” to become vital, healthy, learning organizations. Among organizations and programs featured are The California Wellness Foundation, the Otto Bremer Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, the Ms. Foundation for Women’s Collaborative Fund for Women’s Economic Development, and programs for women and girls funded by the United Way of Massachusetts Bay.

Effective Philanthropy is an invaluable tool in making philanthropy more effective and making full empowerment more universal—for both women and men.

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From original publications such as “The Case for Better Philanthropy: The Future of Funding for Women and Girls” (click here for the Case publication) to contributions to books such as “Women, Philanthropy and Social Change: Visions for a Just Society,” we demonstrate why the power and wisdom of incorporating a gender anaylsis into your philanthropy makes grant making more effective and how the power of a gender anaylsis can be infused into every aspect of an organization’s work.