Open for Good

Open For Good is a movement to encourage foundations to openly share their knowledge. When we are #OpenForGood, we all learn from each other — and that can make incredible things happen.

Strengthening the social sector

#OpenForGood Awards Announced

The results are in

Congratulations to our #OpenForGood award winners: C&A Foundation (Zug, Switzerland), The Ian Potter Foundation (Melbourne, Australia), and the Rockefeller Foundation (New York, USA) for demonstrating an active commitment to open knowledge sharing practices.

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What will you #OpenForGood?

Open for Good guide

Knowledge has the power to spark change, but only when it's shared. In this new GrantCraft guide, grantmakers make the case for foundations to openly share knowledge as an integral and strategic aspect of philanthropy.
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Pop Quiz

What kind of knowledge sharer are you? Take our quiz today!
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Take the first step

Open For Good is our call to action for foundations to learn from and share with their peers. Whether you are reading published reports on IssueLab, or exploring funder insights on GrantCraft, or digging into examples of foundation transparency on Glasspockets, you benefit from shared knowledge.

And, when you share more of what you do and how you do it, you create momentum that makes knowledge sharing a regular part of doing business. The more you share your foundation's work, the greater the opportunities to make all our efforts more effective and farther reaching.

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Transparency Talk blog series

Voices from the field

We've asked the experts to share their own lessons learned about how knowledge sharing benefits the sector - and the greater good.

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Start sharing your knowledge today

Need a place to start? Here are three things you can do right now:

Share your results

Visit IssueLab's collection of evaluations to share your results, so others can build on the lessons you've learned.

Share your insights

Go to GrantCraft to hear what your colleagues have to say, then add your voice to the conversation. If you have an insight, share it!

Share your practices

Go to Glasspockets to compare your foundation's transparency practices to its peers, add your profile, and help encourage openness.

Are you behind the curve?

55% of foundations are sharing the results of their evaluations. Are you?

Explore our infographic, Key Facts on Foundation Evaluation, and learn how to get ahead of the curve.

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Resources you can use

Share results

See who is working on your issue. IssueLab's hub for lessons learned lets you share what you publish.
Start sharing 

Opening up

Take the next steps toward transparency. GrantCraft shows you how to make being open a priority.
Read this guide

Transparency trends

Compare your foundation to its peers. Glasspockets helps you find room for improvement.
Get on the graph

Have questions? Need answers? We’d love to hear from you: openforgood@candid.org.

The Open For Good campaign is funded by


through its Increasing Foundation Openness program.