STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
AWARENESS
Culture: You host regular internal discussions to freely brainstorm new ideas
and identify opportunities to explore.
Strategy: You establish a monthly or quarterly review period to consider
unsolicited or off-calendar grant applications.
Planning: You set a monthly or quarterly meeting to discuss, “What are the
emerging issues in our field and what strategies may be used to address them
(e.g., separate fund for tackling urgent issues)?”
Planning:
You intentionally talk with multiple organizations across sectors
about the problem you are trying to solve.
Communication:
You regularly communicate with internal and extern al
stakeholders about your commitment to making dramatic change and willingness
and ability to take risks.
Evaluation: You routinely ask your grantees and partners the questions,
“What does success vs. failure look like?” “What have we learned from things that
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didn’t go as planned?” and “Looking forward, how should we adapt based on what
we now know?”
Funding: You occasionally fund high-risk initiatives, though often within
program or portfolio boundaries.
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