Nancy Pole is an evaluation and learning consultant, research associate with PhiLab, and coordinator and facilitator of the Collectif des fondations québécoises contre les inégalités. She recently co-wrote a book chapter (in French) exploring foundations’ relationship to impact and accountability.
The sector’s accountability relationships and how it defines and accounts for “success” are in need of an overhaul, says contributor Nancy Pole. In the fifth article in our Rethinking Philanthropy series, she argues that philanthropic foundations can play a leading role in this transformation – and in so doing, think differently about their own accountabilities.
Fin 2014, des fondations québécoises se sont réunies en réponse à des mesures de rigueur budgétaire annoncées par le gouvernement québécois. Elles craignaient que ces mesures
The Collectif des fondations québécoises contre les inégalités, a group of public and private foundations operating mostly in Quebec, has created a framework and series of commitments to combat inequality.
