Posted by BEN BEAUMONT – The Clinton School Center on Community Philanthropy this week welcomes visiting scholar Steven E. Mayer, director of Effective Communities Project, an organization that offers to a set of services, projects and articles to help socially concerned organizations achieve this greater effectiveness. Mayer will spend the week at the Clinton School writing, researching and visiting with students and faculty about effective community philanthropy.
Before beginning Effective Communities in 1999, he was the founding director at Rainbow Research, Inc., a Minneapolis-based nonprofit that helps foundations and nonprofits focus on organizational effectiveness, program evaluation, and capacity building. Some of his key publications are Building Community Capacity: The Potential of Community Foundations; Successful Neighborhood Self-Help: Some Lessons Learned; Community Philanthropy in Central and Eastern Europe; Better Together: Religious Institutions as Partners in Community-Based Development; Inclusiveness Assessment Tool: A Tool for Assessing Progress in Racial and Ethnic Inclusiveness and Cultural Competence; and Building Community Capacity with Evaluation Activities that Empower.