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Where possible, identify an opportunity to sync impact measurement and reporting across co-funders to alleviate the burden on grantees.
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Dealing with Divergent Requests
A resource, from the user experience research, on understanding how to hear the intent behind a request.
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Source: Simply SecureStrength in numbers: Taking a field-level view
Benefits and tensions that come with funding multiple grantees with a shared aim. Funders taking a “field-level view” should provide flexible support to grantees, and clearly articulate the logic behind their grantmaking decisions and strategic goals.
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Source: Ruth Levine, Hewlett FoundationA practical guide to outcome-focused philanthropy
A philanthropic framework that emphasizes rigor, results, learning, and adaptation. This guidebook and set of worksheets helps foundation staff integrate this approach across all stages of philanthropic work.
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Source: Lori Grange, Hewlett FoundationData Handling Best Practices
Doing data handling with privacy and security in mind means spending some time to identify different threats, culminating in a threat model, and coming up with strategies that fit the particular threat model. We’ve compiled some best practices for both risk assessment and security strategies.
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Source: Simply SecureResponsible Data Practices
Adopting responsible data practices can feel daunting. The issues involved range widely, from privacy to ethics, to many other grey areas around making good judgements when it comes to working with data. This resource covers a few considerations that arise repeatedly when thinking about and practising responsible data in the community.
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Source: Responsible DataCo-Design
Resources on co-design as a participatory process that can address systemic inequalities and power imbalances.
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Source: Sasha Costanza-Schock, MIT Civic MediaIDEO Service Design Tools
An open collection of communication tools used in design proccesses that deal with complex systems.
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Source: IDEOOn Trust & Transparency: Full Report
Download the full report.
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Source: Simply SecureOn Trust & Transparency: Interview Guide
The interview guide used for the participant interviews during the Partner Perspectives project.
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Source: Simply SecureOn Trust & Transparency: Survey Guide
The survey guide used for the Partner Perspectives project. This was hosted in LimeSurvey an open-source survey tool that can be self-hosted or hosted via Limesurvey’s website.
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Source: Simply Secure