Program Officer - Adolescent Life Skills, East Africa
2025-04-25T08:28:53+00:00
Echidna Giving
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FULL_TIME
Kampala
Kampala
00256
Uganda
Nonprofit, and NGO
Management
2025-05-09T17:00:00+00:00
Uganda
8
Term: Full Time
Location: Remote/Hybrid. Echidna welcomes candidates from any location, provided they have experience and networks in East Africa and are willing to travel regularly to the region. Preference for those based in Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya.
Compensation: Competitive and reflective of experience
Application Deadline: Applications are evaluated on a rolling basis. Early submissions are highly encouraged for immediate consideration.
Target Start Date: August 2025 (Sooner availability is a plus)
About Echidna Giving
Echidna Giving is a private funder with one sole aim: getting more girls into better schools to live better lives. We focus on girls because of the disadvantage girls face in most parts of the world and because if you educate a girl, she will prioritize educating her children - one of the few self-reinforcing efforts in philanthropy. Investing in girls pays dividends for us all: what she learns in school can transform her life, her family, her community, and her nation for generations to come. That's why we're committed to supporting quality, gender-responsive education in lower-income countries. Because when all kids learn equally, our world becomes more equal.
Private funding becomes even more critical as wealthy nations reduce aid funding. Echidna is one of the largest private funders in the international education space, and we, in contrast, are growing. Though private funding cannot replace dollar-for-dollar aid funding, private philanthropy can help slow the potential reversal of the progress made in reducing poverty and inequality that was achieved in recent decades. Education is a linchpin in poverty alleviation.
Echidna does not intend to create a lasting institution and, therefore, aims to maintain a small but senior team to direct our growth and giving. Our target is to give away $6 billion over the next 35 years. In the next decade, we will grow our annual grants budget by five times to approximately $200M per year. (Learn more at www.echidnagiving.org.)
Echidna has a strong track record with exceptionally high scores on the Grantee Perception Report, an anonymous survey conducted by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP). We believe these exceptional scores come from our principles and approach, which is trust-based, respects the importance of context, provides longer-term flexible support, and is service and relationship-oriented. We take pride in putting our principles into practice. In particular, we strive to enact our strong commitment to funding leaders and organizations embedded in the countries in which they work.
Echidna also has a reputation for a positive and empowering culture. Recent confidential interviews with the team indicate that our culture is characterized by warmth, inclusivity, and intentional relationship-building.
Adolescent Life Skills is one of our key areas of grantmaking to advance girls' education. In this area of work, we are focused on adolescent girls - especially marginalized adolescent girls - developing the life skills and mindsets that allow them to thrive. You can find more details about our strategy here.
It is a particularly exciting time to work at Echidna. Our reputation is strong albeit lower profile. Our work building the field of girls' education has had an impact. We now seek team members who can preserve what is outstanding about our culture and approach while furthering our impact: identifying opportunities to further build the field, drive system change, and enable the growth in influence of local leaders and organizations.
About the Role
Echidna Giving is seeking a Program Officer to join the Echidna Giving team and take ownership of our Adolescent Life Skills strategy in East Africa. The Program Officer will be part of a broader team working on Adolescent Life Skills in multiple regions, whose work is coordinated by a team lead. The Program Officer will also engage with other colleagues working in the same region on different thematic focus areas (namely Early Childhood Development and Education and Primary Foundational Learning).
They will be responsible for shaping, with approval from the board, our Adolescent Life Skills strategy in East Africa, identifying grantees that align with this strategy, and supporting and overseeing the grant portfolio. The role will entail broader work in service of accelerating progress for grantees and the wider field. By staying current in Adolescent Life Skills research and maintaining awareness of country dynamics, the Program Officer will identify opportunities to accelerate locally-led systems change, offer input to other funders looking to support Adolescent Life Skills in the region, and serve as a global resource on Adolescent Life Skills best practices. S/he will help grantees to expand their impact by offering connections, visibility, and broader support. The Program Officer will oversee a grantee portfolio of 20-30 organizations over time (there are currently approximately 18 organizations in this portfolio).
We are flexible on where the Program Officer is geographically based, but candidates based in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya) will have the easiest time staying current in their networks, understanding the context, and supporting a grant portfolio without extensive travel. The Program Officer will spend several months in the first year in the Bay Area and travel internationally with the team as part of onboarding. On an ongoing basis, they should expect to spend 4-6 weeks annually in the Bay Area and 8-12 weeks in the countries where our grantees work, adding up to 20-40% travel, depending on whether or not the staff member is based in one of our target geographies.
We are seeking candidates with expertise in at least two of the following three areas:
(1) technical expertise in Adolescent Life Skills
(2) strong networks in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya) (e.g., with local civil society/NGO organizations and/or government)
(3) experience and networks in philanthropy
Experience or expertise in gender or girl rights would be a significant added benefit.
Responsibilities
Develop and Execute Grantmaking Strategy (70%):
- Develop an East Africa-specific Adolescent Life Skills-focused strategy, building towards systems change.
- Administer and support an existing portfolio of approximately 18 grants.
- Help identify the highest leverage opportunities for advancing Echidna Giving's goals, shaping the way the strategy gets implemented and contextualized.
- Expand the grant portfolio by identifying new grantees aligned with Echidna Giving's Adolescent Life Skills strategy, with an emphasis on identifying organizations based in the countries in which they work and led by leaders from those countries.
- Review and provide feedback on grant proposals, including assessing programs, outcome metrics, budgets, and leadership capabilities.
- Write funding recommendations and other materials for the Board.
- Represent funding recommendations to the Board during quarterly meetings.
- Act as the primary point of contact for Echidna Giving grantees. Support their work beyond the grant dollars, brokering connections with funders, policymakers, and other organizations in order to amplify their voice and impact.
- Provide support and feedback to fellow Program Officers on your unique areas of expertise.
External Relationship-building and Leadership (30%):
- Develop and maintain strong and trusted relationships with grantees, funders, researchers, policymakers, and other key actors in the Adolescent Life Skills, education, and/or gender equality space.
- Identify and support creative solutions to enable the success of individual grantees and the portfolio as a whole through collaborative working relationships.
- Identify and support creative solutions to build and enable strong leadership on Adolescent Life Skills in East Africa.
- Represent Echidna Giving in key settings that help to support our strategy and goals, e.g., at conferences and meetings, in donor collaboratives, etc.
- Collaborate with colleagues and consultants at Echidna Giving to help iterate and improve on our internal practices in ways that align with our principles and strategic aims.
- Stay on top of current research, issues, and trends in education and gender equity.
- Stay abreast of East Africa policy priorities, initiatives, and opportunities for accelerated systems change.
Qualifications
- We are looking for candidates who have over 12 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years in positions that demand ownership of independent decision-making.
- Knowledge and expertise in the education sector, specifically Adolescent Life Skills, with a commitment to gender equity in education.
- Experience or expertise in any of the following areas is a plus: gender transformative education programming, leadership, and organizational development.
- Strong understanding of and networks in the philanthropic sector.
- Strong understanding of the political economy in education in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya).
- Strong networks and relationships with education actors in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya).
- Experience in the nongovernmental, governmental, and/or philanthropic sectors with an understanding of how nongovernmental organizations operate.
- Ability to gather and synthesize information from a variety of sources, identify what is most important to consider and prioritize, and use it to make timely and confident decisions.
- Ability to understand and critically analyze evidence and research methods.
- Ability to see the "big picture" and translate ideas into practical actions.
- Ability to clearly and consistently communicate, in English, both verbally and in writing with diverse audiences and in a transparent, timely, and respectful manner.
- Commitment to Echidna Giving's principles and overarching mission.
- As a representative, reflect well on and in a manner that is consistent with Echidna Giving's culture and values.
- Curiosity, interest, and ability to collaborate with people with different perspectives and styles, open to listening to and adapting based on feedback, as well as proven dedication to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to be a self-starter who operates effectively independently, with a demonstrated track record of consistently meeting deadlines.
- Candidates who are flexible, mature, and have a sense of humor will have the greatest success at Echidna Giving.
- Work collaboratively, building relationships, trust, and credibility with members of a team, Board, management, and external stakeholders.
Echidna Giving Principles
We support organizations and work with them to build the field of, and to enable systematic change in, girls' education.
Our core function is making grants to nonprofit organizations. We default to multi-year support and the least restricted form of grant that aligns with our strategy. In addition to core grants, we invest in the success of organizations through organizational effectiveness grants and support beyond our grant dollars - e.g. we open our networks, provide advice as requested, share best practices from other grantees, increase grantees' exposure, share field resources like our monthly blog, etc. We accept that operating as a supportive grantmaker sometimes looks "boring" by traditional metrics. We share our approaches to philanthropy and create them as public goods in case others find them useful.
We are guided by the ideas, knowledge, and expertise of those closest to the problems our grantmaking is helping to address.
We prioritize investing in local leadership and supporting others' visions for change rather than dictating what grantees should do. We aim to contribute without being controlling: we let grantees take the lead while also asking questions and offering advice where relevant and welcomed. We aspire to incorporate the voices of communities we seek to serve in our strategic planning processes. An Advisory Board of diverse experts in our sector provides advice and input on our strategy and work.
We invest in building understanding and strong relationships with our partners and each other.
We invest time in understanding what grantees are trying to accomplish, the challenges they face, and the larger context of their work. We respect peoples' time and are sensitive to the burdens we place on them: we do our homework, do not ask for information that we will not use, avoid bureaucracy, offer flexibility, and take pride in our responsiveness. We share information openly and transparently, including our grantmaking strategy, list of grantees, tools, practices, and lessons learned. We communicate proactively: we actively share information with one another, we encourage grantees to express challenges, if we are worried about performance we tell grantees directly, we say no to inquiries as soon as we know that's the answer.
We are comfortable taking measured risks and prioritize learning about what is and is not working and iterating to improve.
We ask for feedback and seek to continually learn as an organization and as individuals. We recognize the value of grantees taking measured risks, even if it means they will sometimes fail. Our response to failure is measured: what matters is learning from failure, not avoiding failure altogether.
We believe in the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our work focuses on gender equity for marginalized populations, but we continuously examine our practices and approach in light of this commitment.
Achieving diversity in our hiring, our decisionmaking, and our culture, is a priority. We recognize that there is a correlation between funding and power. We question our power and privilege and work to cede it to communities we hope will thrive. We recognize and try to correct for our biases as an organization based in the United States. As we learn more, we will seek to improve in every dimension, including with respect to integrating best practices in diversity, racial equity, and inclusion into our operations and approach.
Develop and Execute Grantmaking Strategy (70%): Develop an East Africa-specific Adolescent Life Skills-focused strategy, building towards systems change. Administer and support an existing portfolio of approximately 18 grants. Help identify the highest leverage opportunities for advancing Echidna Giving's goals, shaping the way the strategy gets implemented and contextualized. Expand the grant portfolio by identifying new grantees aligned with Echidna Giving's Adolescent Life Skills strategy, with an emphasis on identifying organizations based in the countries in which they work and led by leaders from those countries. Review and provide feedback on grant proposals, including assessing programs, outcome metrics, budgets, and leadership capabilities. Write funding recommendations and other materials for the Board. Represent funding recommendations to the Board during quarterly meetings. Act as the primary point of contact for Echidna Giving grantees. Support their work beyond the grant dollars, brokering connections with funders, policymakers, and other organizations in order to amplify their voice and impact. Provide support and feedback to fellow Program Officers on your unique areas of expertise. External Relationship-building and Leadership (30%): Develop and maintain strong and trusted relationships with grantees, funders, researchers, policymakers, and other key actors in the Adolescent Life Skills, education, and/or gender equality space. Identify and support creative solutions to enable the success of individual grantees and the portfolio as a whole through collaborative working relationships. Identify and support creative solutions to build and enable strong leadership on Adolescent Life Skills in East Africa. Represent Echidna Giving in key settings that help to support our strategy and goals, e.g., at conferences and meetings, in donor collaboratives, etc. Collaborate with colleagues and consultants at Echidna Giving to help iterate and improve on our internal practices in ways that align with our principles and strategic aims. Stay on top of current research, issues, and trends in education and gender equity. Stay abreast of East Africa policy priorities, initiatives, and opportunities for accelerated systems change.
We are looking for candidates who have over 12 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years in positions that demand ownership of independent decision-making. Knowledge and expertise in the education sector, specifically Adolescent Life Skills, with a commitment to gender equity in education. Experience or expertise in any of the following areas is a plus: gender transformative education programming, leadership, and organizational development. Strong understanding of and networks in the philanthropic sector. Strong understanding of the political economy in education in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya). Strong networks and relationships with education actors in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya). Experience in the nongovernmental, governmental, and/or philanthropic sectors with an understanding of how nongovernmental organizations operate. Ability to gather and synthesize information from a variety of sources, identify what is most important to consider and prioritize, and use it to make timely and confident decisions. Ability to understand and critically analyze evidence and research methods. Ability to see the "big picture" and translate ideas into practical actions. Ability to clearly and consistently communicate, in English, both verbally and in writing with diverse audiences and in a transparent, timely, and respectful manner. Commitment to Echidna Giving's principles and overarching mission. As a representative, reflect well on and in a manner that is consistent with Echidna Giving's culture and values. Curiosity, interest, and ability to collaborate with people with different perspectives and styles, open to listening to and adapting based on feedback, as well as proven dedication to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. Excellent organizational skills and ability to be a self-starter who operates effectively independently, with a demonstrated track record of consistently meeting deadlines. Candidates who are flexible, mature, and have a sense of humor will have the greatest success at Echidna Giving. Work collaboratively, building relationships, trust, and credibility with members of a team, Board, management, and external stakeholders.
We are looking for candidates who have over 12 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years in positions that demand ownership of independent decision-making. Knowledge and expertise in the education sector, specifically Adolescent Life Skills, with a commitment to gender equity in education. Experience or expertise in any of the following areas is a plus: gender transformative education programming, leadership, and organizational development. Strong understanding of and networks in the philanthropic sector. Strong understanding of the political economy in education in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya). Strong networks and relationships with education actors in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya). Experience in the nongovernmental, governmental, and/or philanthropic sectors with an understanding of how nongovernmental organizations operate. Ability to gather and synthesize information from a variety of sources, identify what is most important to consider and prioritize, and use it to make timely and confident decisions. Ability to understand and critically analyze evidence and research methods. Ability to see the "big picture" and translate ideas into practical actions. Ability to clearly and consistently communicate, in English, both verbally and in writing with diverse audiences and in a transparent, timely, and respectful manner. Commitment to Echidna Giving's principles and overarching mission. As a representative, reflect well on and in a manner that is consistent with Echidna Giving's culture and values. Curiosity, interest, and ability to collaborate with people with different perspectives and styles, open to listening to and adapting based on feedback, as well as proven dedication to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. Excellent organizational skills and ability to be a self-starter who operates effectively independently, with a demonstrated track record of consistently meeting deadlines. Candidates who are flexible, mature, and have a sense of humor will have the greatest success at Echidna Giving. Work collaboratively, building relationships, trust, and credibility with members of a team, Board, management, and external stakeholders.
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Vacancy title:
Program Officer - Adolescent Life Skills, East Africa
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Management]
Jobs at:
Echidna Giving
Deadline of this Job:
Friday, May 9 2025
Duty Station:
Kampala | Kampala | Uganda
Summary
Date Posted: Friday, April 25 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
Term: Full Time
Location: Remote/Hybrid. Echidna welcomes candidates from any location, provided they have experience and networks in East Africa and are willing to travel regularly to the region. Preference for those based in Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya.
Compensation: Competitive and reflective of experience
Application Deadline: Applications are evaluated on a rolling basis. Early submissions are highly encouraged for immediate consideration.
Target Start Date: August 2025 (Sooner availability is a plus)
About Echidna Giving
Echidna Giving is a private funder with one sole aim: getting more girls into better schools to live better lives. We focus on girls because of the disadvantage girls face in most parts of the world and because if you educate a girl, she will prioritize educating her children - one of the few self-reinforcing efforts in philanthropy. Investing in girls pays dividends for us all: what she learns in school can transform her life, her family, her community, and her nation for generations to come. That's why we're committed to supporting quality, gender-responsive education in lower-income countries. Because when all kids learn equally, our world becomes more equal.
Private funding becomes even more critical as wealthy nations reduce aid funding. Echidna is one of the largest private funders in the international education space, and we, in contrast, are growing. Though private funding cannot replace dollar-for-dollar aid funding, private philanthropy can help slow the potential reversal of the progress made in reducing poverty and inequality that was achieved in recent decades. Education is a linchpin in poverty alleviation.
Echidna does not intend to create a lasting institution and, therefore, aims to maintain a small but senior team to direct our growth and giving. Our target is to give away $6 billion over the next 35 years. In the next decade, we will grow our annual grants budget by five times to approximately $200M per year. (Learn more at www.echidnagiving.org.)
Echidna has a strong track record with exceptionally high scores on the Grantee Perception Report, an anonymous survey conducted by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP). We believe these exceptional scores come from our principles and approach, which is trust-based, respects the importance of context, provides longer-term flexible support, and is service and relationship-oriented. We take pride in putting our principles into practice. In particular, we strive to enact our strong commitment to funding leaders and organizations embedded in the countries in which they work.
Echidna also has a reputation for a positive and empowering culture. Recent confidential interviews with the team indicate that our culture is characterized by warmth, inclusivity, and intentional relationship-building.
Adolescent Life Skills is one of our key areas of grantmaking to advance girls' education. In this area of work, we are focused on adolescent girls - especially marginalized adolescent girls - developing the life skills and mindsets that allow them to thrive. You can find more details about our strategy here.
It is a particularly exciting time to work at Echidna. Our reputation is strong albeit lower profile. Our work building the field of girls' education has had an impact. We now seek team members who can preserve what is outstanding about our culture and approach while furthering our impact: identifying opportunities to further build the field, drive system change, and enable the growth in influence of local leaders and organizations.
About the Role
Echidna Giving is seeking a Program Officer to join the Echidna Giving team and take ownership of our Adolescent Life Skills strategy in East Africa. The Program Officer will be part of a broader team working on Adolescent Life Skills in multiple regions, whose work is coordinated by a team lead. The Program Officer will also engage with other colleagues working in the same region on different thematic focus areas (namely Early Childhood Development and Education and Primary Foundational Learning).
They will be responsible for shaping, with approval from the board, our Adolescent Life Skills strategy in East Africa, identifying grantees that align with this strategy, and supporting and overseeing the grant portfolio. The role will entail broader work in service of accelerating progress for grantees and the wider field. By staying current in Adolescent Life Skills research and maintaining awareness of country dynamics, the Program Officer will identify opportunities to accelerate locally-led systems change, offer input to other funders looking to support Adolescent Life Skills in the region, and serve as a global resource on Adolescent Life Skills best practices. S/he will help grantees to expand their impact by offering connections, visibility, and broader support. The Program Officer will oversee a grantee portfolio of 20-30 organizations over time (there are currently approximately 18 organizations in this portfolio).
We are flexible on where the Program Officer is geographically based, but candidates based in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya) will have the easiest time staying current in their networks, understanding the context, and supporting a grant portfolio without extensive travel. The Program Officer will spend several months in the first year in the Bay Area and travel internationally with the team as part of onboarding. On an ongoing basis, they should expect to spend 4-6 weeks annually in the Bay Area and 8-12 weeks in the countries where our grantees work, adding up to 20-40% travel, depending on whether or not the staff member is based in one of our target geographies.
We are seeking candidates with expertise in at least two of the following three areas:
(1) technical expertise in Adolescent Life Skills
(2) strong networks in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya) (e.g., with local civil society/NGO organizations and/or government)
(3) experience and networks in philanthropy
Experience or expertise in gender or girl rights would be a significant added benefit.
Responsibilities
Develop and Execute Grantmaking Strategy (70%):
- Develop an East Africa-specific Adolescent Life Skills-focused strategy, building towards systems change.
- Administer and support an existing portfolio of approximately 18 grants.
- Help identify the highest leverage opportunities for advancing Echidna Giving's goals, shaping the way the strategy gets implemented and contextualized.
- Expand the grant portfolio by identifying new grantees aligned with Echidna Giving's Adolescent Life Skills strategy, with an emphasis on identifying organizations based in the countries in which they work and led by leaders from those countries.
- Review and provide feedback on grant proposals, including assessing programs, outcome metrics, budgets, and leadership capabilities.
- Write funding recommendations and other materials for the Board.
- Represent funding recommendations to the Board during quarterly meetings.
- Act as the primary point of contact for Echidna Giving grantees. Support their work beyond the grant dollars, brokering connections with funders, policymakers, and other organizations in order to amplify their voice and impact.
- Provide support and feedback to fellow Program Officers on your unique areas of expertise.
External Relationship-building and Leadership (30%):
- Develop and maintain strong and trusted relationships with grantees, funders, researchers, policymakers, and other key actors in the Adolescent Life Skills, education, and/or gender equality space.
- Identify and support creative solutions to enable the success of individual grantees and the portfolio as a whole through collaborative working relationships.
- Identify and support creative solutions to build and enable strong leadership on Adolescent Life Skills in East Africa.
- Represent Echidna Giving in key settings that help to support our strategy and goals, e.g., at conferences and meetings, in donor collaboratives, etc.
- Collaborate with colleagues and consultants at Echidna Giving to help iterate and improve on our internal practices in ways that align with our principles and strategic aims.
- Stay on top of current research, issues, and trends in education and gender equity.
- Stay abreast of East Africa policy priorities, initiatives, and opportunities for accelerated systems change.
Qualifications
- We are looking for candidates who have over 12 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years in positions that demand ownership of independent decision-making.
- Knowledge and expertise in the education sector, specifically Adolescent Life Skills, with a commitment to gender equity in education.
- Experience or expertise in any of the following areas is a plus: gender transformative education programming, leadership, and organizational development.
- Strong understanding of and networks in the philanthropic sector.
- Strong understanding of the political economy in education in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya).
- Strong networks and relationships with education actors in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, or Kenya).
- Experience in the nongovernmental, governmental, and/or philanthropic sectors with an understanding of how nongovernmental organizations operate.
- Ability to gather and synthesize information from a variety of sources, identify what is most important to consider and prioritize, and use it to make timely and confident decisions.
- Ability to understand and critically analyze evidence and research methods.
- Ability to see the "big picture" and translate ideas into practical actions.
- Ability to clearly and consistently communicate, in English, both verbally and in writing with diverse audiences and in a transparent, timely, and respectful manner.
- Commitment to Echidna Giving's principles and overarching mission.
- As a representative, reflect well on and in a manner that is consistent with Echidna Giving's culture and values.
- Curiosity, interest, and ability to collaborate with people with different perspectives and styles, open to listening to and adapting based on feedback, as well as proven dedication to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to be a self-starter who operates effectively independently, with a demonstrated track record of consistently meeting deadlines.
- Candidates who are flexible, mature, and have a sense of humor will have the greatest success at Echidna Giving.
- Work collaboratively, building relationships, trust, and credibility with members of a team, Board, management, and external stakeholders.
Echidna Giving Principles
We support organizations and work with them to build the field of, and to enable systematic change in, girls' education.
Our core function is making grants to nonprofit organizations. We default to multi-year support and the least restricted form of grant that aligns with our strategy. In addition to core grants, we invest in the success of organizations through organizational effectiveness grants and support beyond our grant dollars - e.g. we open our networks, provide advice as requested, share best practices from other grantees, increase grantees' exposure, share field resources like our monthly blog, etc. We accept that operating as a supportive grantmaker sometimes looks "boring" by traditional metrics. We share our approaches to philanthropy and create them as public goods in case others find them useful.
We are guided by the ideas, knowledge, and expertise of those closest to the problems our grantmaking is helping to address.
We prioritize investing in local leadership and supporting others' visions for change rather than dictating what grantees should do. We aim to contribute without being controlling: we let grantees take the lead while also asking questions and offering advice where relevant and welcomed. We aspire to incorporate the voices of communities we seek to serve in our strategic planning processes. An Advisory Board of diverse experts in our sector provides advice and input on our strategy and work.
We invest in building understanding and strong relationships with our partners and each other.
We invest time in understanding what grantees are trying to accomplish, the challenges they face, and the larger context of their work. We respect peoples' time and are sensitive to the burdens we place on them: we do our homework, do not ask for information that we will not use, avoid bureaucracy, offer flexibility, and take pride in our responsiveness. We share information openly and transparently, including our grantmaking strategy, list of grantees, tools, practices, and lessons learned. We communicate proactively: we actively share information with one another, we encourage grantees to express challenges, if we are worried about performance we tell grantees directly, we say no to inquiries as soon as we know that's the answer.
We are comfortable taking measured risks and prioritize learning about what is and is not working and iterating to improve.
We ask for feedback and seek to continually learn as an organization and as individuals. We recognize the value of grantees taking measured risks, even if it means they will sometimes fail. Our response to failure is measured: what matters is learning from failure, not avoiding failure altogether.
We believe in the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our work focuses on gender equity for marginalized populations, but we continuously examine our practices and approach in light of this commitment.
Achieving diversity in our hiring, our decisionmaking, and our culture, is a priority. We recognize that there is a correlation between funding and power. We question our power and privilege and work to cede it to communities we hope will thrive. We recognize and try to correct for our biases as an organization based in the United States. As we learn more, we will seek to improve in every dimension, including with respect to integrating best practices in diversity, racial equity, and inclusion into our operations and approach.
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