Yesterday, the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE)
Foundation announced that the BBB Wise Giving Alliance (BBB WGA) is one
of five awardees of the 2018
Innovation Grants Award Program. BBB WGA’s “Advancing Collaboration” project
featured an article series created in partnership with the Stanford
Social Innovation Review (SSIR) that sought to capture and encourage a
new spirit of collaboration among charities and others engaged in
philanthropy. With a strong recognition of the importance of trust in
establishing collaborations, such partnerships can help organizations
reach larger audiences while sharing the risk and help achieve more than
an organization can do alone. The project also introduced a Collaboration
Pledge which helps display a charity’s commitment to
seeking out potential partners to carry out shared goals. Such
partnerships are not only possible between charities but also with
others entities engaged in social good.
The ASAE Foundation indicates that during the past six years, it has
awarded a total of 25 IGP grants and has received close to 300
applications from organizations of varied sizes, locations and
missions.
The Advancing Collaboration article
series is accessible on Give.org and includes pieces written by
executives from GuideStar, Center for Effective Philanthropy, Mission
Partners, BoardSource, 92nd Street Y, Association of
Fundraising Professionals, American Red Cross, ALS Association and
others. In addition, a summary of the article series appears in the
latest issue of the Wise Giving Guide: BetterTogether: Charities and Collaboration.
We are honored and greatly appreciate this recognition and support and
will use the $10,000 grant to help further address collaboration issues
in the current year. We thank all the authors who contributed to this
effort as well as SSIR for helping to make this series available to
social change leaders throughout the world.
Video of the Week
For this week’s Building Trust Video Series entry, we are pleased to
provide a playlist featuring interviews with some of the authors of the
Advancing
Collaboration article series. The playlist includes
interviews with Carrie Fox, Founder, Mission Partners, Pratichi Shah,
Founder and CEO, Flourish Talent Management Solutions, Peter Panepento,
Co-Founder, Turn Two Communications, Jake Porway, Founder and Executive
Director, DataKind, Gail McGovern, President and CEO, American Red
Cross, Jacob Harold, President and CEO, GuideStar and Art Taylor,
President and CEO, BBB Wise Giving Alliance. The videos can be
viewed individually on our
YouTube page.
Recent Reports
We are always working with charities to publish or update reports for
donors. Visit Give.org or local
BBBs to check out any charity before giving. Our recently evaluated
charities include:
Finally, remember to let us know by going to https://www.give.org/ask-us-about-a-charity1/ if
you are interested in seeing a report on a charity not on the list
and we will do our best to produce one.
H. Art Taylor, President & CEO
BBB Wise Giving Alliance
