Creating Learning Communities by Connecting Grant Partners

The New York Women’s Foundation created a strategic learning hub team to increase our proximity with grantee partners during the evaluation process, strengthen the dynamism of the ways we partner and learn, and further streamline our grantmaking practices. We use the learnings facilitated through this hub to inform funding strategies, explore new ways to elevate grantees’ success stories, and share data back with our grantee partners so they can use it to advance their work. The hub gathers information by building touchpoints throughout our overall grantmaking processes. This reinforces trust-based evaluation practices as opposed to stagnant traditional reporting. Currently, the hub is developing a report for the evaluation of phase one of our program called The NYC Fund for Girls and Women of Color. We are interviewing grantee partners and gathering their insights to better understand the fund’s impact in their communities, and how their work has transformed over the