Survey: Building Communications Capacity for Grantees

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The Walton Family Foundation is partnering with Spitfire Strategies and The Communications Network to conduct an analysis of effective approaches to building grantee communications capacity that it can share with the wider field, as well as use to direct its own investments.

Walton is asking a big question: what is best way to enhance grantees’ communications capacity? We’d love to hear what you have found is effective and ineffective.

Let’s get started. If you need to keep anything confidential, just flag that for us. Otherwise, we hope to pull all these insights together into a report to the field.

We anticipate this survey will take approximately 10 - 15 minutes. If you have any questions, or you have any communications audits or landscaping to share, please contact Haley McKey via haley at spitfirestrategies dot com. Thank you for your help!

Name: *

Title: *

Organization *

Email address (for if Spitfire Strategies has follow-up questions; this will not be shared with anyone else.) *

Thinking about communications capacity-building at your foundation…how does your foundation define it, and what do you hope to gain from it? *

What do grantees typically ask for? *

Training

Communications capacity e.g. arms and legs/day to day execution

Support to develop content e.g. annual report, website content

Consulting

Other:

Required

Thinking about what you provide for capacity-building...which of the following apply for how you decide which type of capacity to offer? *

It is decided on a case by case basis

The communications team designs different grantee capacity-building initiatives and identifies select grantees to benefit

All grantees receive the same capacity building support

The grantee identifies the communications capacity support that would be most beneficial

Other:

Thinking about what you provide for capacity-building, what are all the types of communication capacity-building you offer? *

Multi-day trainings

Learning collaboratives (monthly, quarterly or yearly engagements

Guides and toolkits

Writing and pitching services (e.g., op-ed and editorial support)

On-demand coaching/counseling

One-off webinars or workshops on certain topics

Other:

Required

How do you decide who receives these resources? *

How significant of an investment does the foundation make annually on communication capacity-building? *

Under $100,000

$100,001 - $499,999

$500,000 - $999,999

$1,000,000 and above

Required

Thinking about success...What do you define as success for capacity-building, and how do you know if you've achieved it? *

Looking back at your communications capacity-building investment decisions...what do you think has worked well and why? *

What hasn't worked as well, and why? *

What have you kept doing, stopped doing or started doing based on your experience? *

Is there anything else regarding grantee capacity-building that Walton should be thinking about? *

Is there any quantitative or qualitative research you have done, including evaluations, audits or landscaping you have done that you'd be willing to share? Spitfire Strategies will follow up with you if so. *

Are there any additional foundations you believe have intel or research to share with us that we should reach out to? *

Do we have your consent to share your name and foundation in the final report on communications capacity-building? *

Yes

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