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The Networks and Institutions Of Social Change
I've been thinking a lot lately about how networks and institutions must work together to create social change. As I mentioned earlier, social change happens when networks (loose connections of people and groups) organize themselves enough to pressure outdated institutions to adapt (like in the civil rights movement, global democracy movements, and the state-by-state legalization of gay marriage).
But when networks and institutions don't connect, social change doesn't happen (like in the Occupy movement). So networks must organize enough to influence institutions, and institutions must open themselves enough to let networks in. Social change requires that the two work in tandem.
David Brooks captured this theme in his recent New York Times column when he talked about the death of the "Organization Man." He claims that we are witnessing "a failure of governance around the world" because networks are being valued over institutions, as he puts it:
A few generations ago, people grew up in and were comfortable with big organizations — the army, corporations and agencies. They organized huge construction projects in the 1930s, gigantic industrial mobilization during World War II, highway construction and corporate growth during the 1950s. Institutional stewardship, the care and reform of big organizations, was more prestigious. Now nobody wants to be an Organization Man. We like start-ups, disrupters and rebels. Creativity is honored more than the administrative execution. Post-Internet, many people assume that big problems can be solved by swarms of small, loosely networked nonprofits and social entrepreneurs. Big hierarchical organizations are dinosaurs.
Networks are king and institutions are left by the wayside, resulting in chaos. Effective social change happens when networks infiltrate institutions enough to help them adapt.
This is echoed in Jane Wei-Skillern & Sonia Marciano's groundbreaking Stanford Social Innovation Review article in 2008, "The Networked Nonprofit." They argued that nonprofit institutions must connect to and become more like networks in order to effectively create social change:
Most social issues dwarf even the most well-resourced, well-managed nonprofit. And so it is wrongheaded for nonprofit leaders simply to build their organizations…By mobilizing resources outside their immediate control, networked nonprofits achieve their missions far more efficiently, effectively, and sustainably than they could have by working alone…Unlike traditional nonprofit leaders who think of their organizations as hubs and their partners as spokes, networked nonprofit leaders think of their organizations as nodes within a broad constellation that revolves around shared missions and values…According to our research, nonprofits that pursue their missions through networks of long-term, trust-based partnerships consistently achieve more sustainable mission impact with fewer resources than do monolithic organizations that try to do everything by themselves.
But it is not just a one-way street. For social change to take hold, institutions must connect to networks and networks must connect to institutions. The Occupy movement is a great example of what happens when a network doesn't connect to institutions. The movement eventually died because, as The Economist put it, the Occupy Movement "did not become the sort of mass movement that could deliver legislative and regulatory change."
For real change to happen we need networks and institutions to work together. Networks are fluid, innovative, energetic and quick-moving, while institutions are well-resourced, legitimate, and powerful. So the challenge for social change leaders is to get outside your four walls, figure out where the networks and institutions lie, and forge real connections.
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Overcoming The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle: An Interview With Ann Goggins Gregory
In today's Social Velocity blog interview, I'm talking with Ann Goggins Gregory, Chief Operating Officer at Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco where she oversees programs, the social enterprise called the ReStore, HR and Operations.
Previously, Ann was a Senior Director at the Bridgespan Group, where she led the organization's work on organizational learning; managed consulting engagements with human services, education, and youth-serving nonprofits; and spearheaded research efforts on a variety of nonprofit management topics. She remains a Senior Advisor to Bridgespan on issues related to the starvation cycle.
You can read other interviews in the Social Velocity Interview Series here.
Nell: You and your colleague Don Howard are in some ways the catalysts behind the Overhead Myth campaign because of your seminal article, The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle in the Stanford Social Innovation Review back in 2009. How far have we come since that article? How prevalent is the starvation cycle today and what can we do to move beyond it?
Ann: "The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle" names what I consider to be a fundamental truth: "Organizations that build robust infrastructure…are more likely to succeed than those that do not. This is not news, and nonprofits are no exception to the rule." For decades, researchers and practitioners have argued that low overhead does not equate with efficiency and efficiency, in turn, does not equate with effectiveness.
We are seeing (productive) focus and movement now versus five or ten years ago, yet that starvation cycle is still an entrenched issue. On a positive note, the Overhead Myth campaign has been critical in communicating with donors directly and empowering nonprofits to communicate with "back up." Though I have mixed feelings about some of the messages in Dan Pallotta's video, it elevated paradoxes of how costs are treated in the social sector. We've also seen targeted efforts to help funders and nonprofits address cost-related issues together. Even the federal government is trying to shift practice: the Office of Management and Budget issued guidance requiring that nonprofits receiving federal funding receive a minimum of 10% indirect rate, or they can negotiate a rate. If this guidance is followed, it will be a major policy win.
Yet we have a long way to go. Talking about terminology isn't scintillating, but it's critical to breaking the starvation cycle. Overhead costs aren't the same as indirect, yet we conflate them. General operating support and capacity building—often seen as ways to help break the cycle—aren't the same thing. Many nonprofits do not know the full costs associated with their programs, and many funders don't understand nonprofit finance. Bridging the skill gap on both sides of the equation is critical.
Moreover, a single figure like the overhead rate is appealing because it makes comparison easy. Until nonprofits have better ways to communicate outcomes, we will continue to battle against the simplicity of a ratio. Finally, power dynamics between funders and nonprofits inhibit change; candidly, there aren't strong forces pushing on philanthropy and government to change their practice. In the absence of such change, nonprofits are understandably worried about shifting their stance on overhead if their competitors do not (I do think there are steps that any nonprofit can take, though).
Nell: Part of what keeps the starvation cycle alive is that it is being fed, as you so clearly point out in your SSIR article, by both funders and nonprofit leaders. One of the things you were working on at Bridgespan was the Real Talk About Real Costs series of nonprofit leader and funder conversations. How effective was it to bring nonprofits and funders together to talk about these issues? And is that potential solution to the starvation cycle scalable?
Ann: Real Talk about Real Costs, sponsored by the Donors Forum with Bridgespan as a partner, brought together 300 leaders from nonprofits and philanthropy to wrestle with what good outcomes really cost. The event built upon a nine-month Community of Practice focused on "tackling the overhead challenge." This interview has more about how Donors Forum decided to put the cost issue front and center. Another such effort is slated to begin in California in 2015.
In watching funder-nonprofit "mixed company" interactions, I was struck by how many funders expressed dissatisfaction with the grant-making status quo, yet frustrated that foundation trustees did not feel the same way. And I noticed how uncomfortable both funders and nonprofits were about having a tough conversation about full costs. At the event, we gave participants a role-reversal case study where a fictitious grantee and grant-maker had to discuss the terms of a grant; nonprofit attendees acted the part of the program officer and vice versa. In feedback surveys, the majority of comments focused on the discomfort and lack of knowledge they felt in talking about costs. Finding more ways for nonprofits and funders to wrestle with cost issues together would go a long way to building empathy and skills.
I don't see a single scalable solution, but what feels most scalable as a starting point is a fundamentally different approach to communicating about costs: on websites, in collateral, and in conversations between nonprofit and funder. I believe that most funders can still make restricted grants without making unrealistic demands about how the funds are spent. For instance, what if funders asked "what type of capacity will you need to deliver on this grant?" vs. "what is the overhead for this project?" What if funders moved away from prescribed budget templates that don't align with how nonprofits think about their resources? Even these seemingly small steps would go a long way to empowering nonprofits to communicate differently. Below I share a few specific ways I think nonprofits can help break the cycle.
Nell: The starvation cycle is just one example of the many ways we hold the nonprofit sector to a higher standard than we do the for-profit sector (costs for R&D, marketing, infrastructure, technology are taken as a given in the business world). Why does that discrepancy exist and how do we overcome it?
Ann: Overhead in the for-profit world—sales, general and administrative costs as a percentage of total sales—is 25% across all industries and 34% for service industries. The cruel irony of holding nonprofits to a much tougher standard is that donors often say that they do this because nonprofits ought to "run more efficiently, like a business." Most people don't know the overhead of businesses because profitability matters more.
Unlike businesses, nonprofits can't report results in a single figure that makes apples-to-apples comparisons easy. One way to overcome this challenge is to move toward highlighting outcomes. I don't mean standardizing outcomes (although efforts like Perform Well are very powerful), and I don't mean doing away with financial indicators entirely. I mean moving from touting our overhead to sharing our program results. In an ideal world, nonprofits would be able to share not only their outcomes but also the costs associated with producing them.
I know this doesn't happen overnight. Starting immediately, I would love to see more funders speak out in support of—and actually fund—these investments. And nonprofits have a role to play in shifting the conversation: by sharing for-profit overhead as a way to challenge assumptions; by taking down the overhead pie chart and other "we're lean!" messaging from websites; and using systems like the Guidestar Exchange to share our goals and strategies in our own words.
Nell: You recently left the consulting/thought leader side of the sector (as a senior director at The Bridgespan Group) to work in the nonprofit trenches as COO of Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco. What are you learning as you work to turn theory about overcoming the starvation cycle into action inside a nonprofit organization?
Ann: I am learning that it is doable and reminded that it is hard. In the last few months, we have taken down the efficiency statement on our website ("87 cents of every dollar goes to helping families…") and will soon to replace it with statements of outcomes we see for Habitat homeowners. We walked away from a $100K+ funding opportunity because the grant would have allowed a maximum of 10% for indirect costs, and we estimated that the compliance costs alone would have been 2-3 times that. The grant's focus aligned well with a nascent program, so it was a tough decision.
Under our finance team's leadership, we also implemented a time tracking system. We now have better information on how people spend their time and can compare actual versus what was allocated in the budget. We learned, for instance, that in the last quarter we spent more time on G&A than we'd projected. This makes sense: this summer a small team of board and staff, including myself, negotiated a lease for a new office space, then transitioned to managing the move out- and move-in process. I don't think anyone would say that was a waste of time; finding a space that met our budget in the San Francisco real estate market has been a challenging but important task.
Next on the list is an internal conversation about Charity Navigator and the way we promote our four-star rating on our website. It will be a healthy debate. On the one hand, I appreciate the focus on accountability and transparency, and I'd be naïve if I thought we hadn't received donations from donors who use these ratings. On the other hand, I have deep reservations about Charity Navigator's financial health methodology, particularly in that it penalizes nonprofits with higher overhead regardless of context. If we invest to support our growth—spending time finding a new office in a tough market, or upgrading our HR systems to find and retrain the best staff—we ought not to feel embarrassed about that, nor be penalized for it.
I am fortunate to work with a board and staff who are open to these changes and debates. My hope is that our experiences can serve to keep my perspective about the starvation cycle grounded and productive.
Photo Credit: Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco
What Social Change Requires
It is obvious to most in this country that our political system is quite broken. A gridlocked Congress, a shilling mainstream media, a checked-out electorate, and the list goes on. But last week I saw some hope.
I participated in a really interesting gathering in Baltimore hosted by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. As part of their Madison Initiative (a $50 million project to "support and improve the health of representative democracy in the United States") Hewlett brought together 90 nonprofit and government leaders, consultants, journalists, heads of think tanks, and other foundation leaders to connect and analyze.
It was a fascinating few days. Through conversations and design-thinking sessions we were encouraged to stretch our thinking about solutions to the often depressing state of American government. I met some inspiring people who are creating solutions to our broken political system. (A few have agreed to be interviewed on the blog, so stay tuned.)
I am only tangential to this world of political reform, so for me it was interesting to see how conversations happening here can inform social change more broadly.
A few things occurred to me over the course of the three days about what effective social change requires:
Networks AND Institutions
Networks, loose connections of people and groups, exist outside of our 200+ year-old political institutions, but social change happens when networks organize themselves enough to pressure outdated institutions to adapt. This happened in the civil rights movement, recent global democracy movements, and the state-by-state legalization of gay marriage. But when networks and institutions don't connect, social change doesn't happen (like in the Occupy movement). So networks must organize enough to influence institutions, and institutions must open themselves enough to let networks in. Social change requires that the two work in tandem.
Millennials AND Boomers
Echoing Robert Egger's guest post this past summer on this blog, both Millennial and Boomer generations have a deep commitment to social change and the critical mass necessary to make it happen. But they would be even more effective at creating social change if they worked together, instead of against each other. Millennials need to recognize that Boomers fought for system change in their day (civil rights, women's rights) and Boomers need to recognize that Millennials are creating similar kinds of system change, just with new tools and technologies. The two must find connections and collaborate more often. And I think Gen Xers (of which I am one) can play a critical role in translating between the two generations.
East/West/Rural/Urban Geographies
This is a huge country and sometimes that reality gets in the way of change. Red vs. blue, rural vs. urban, Eastern time zone vs. Western time zone, coastal vs. flyover states, there are many ways to slice our country. It amazes me how often people focus on geographic differences instead of common values and goals. But true change comes when we break down those walls and have a conversation based on shared values rather than opposing frames of reference. The only way we move beyond impasse is for each side to listen with a completely open mind (free of assumptions and stereotypes) to the other side. And occasionally leave our comfort zone and meet others where they are.
At the end of the day, political reform is no different than any other social change we seek. To create positive change we must move beyond the dichotomies. We have to think much bigger. Perhaps the answer to our political woes is the same as the answer to our other social challenges, as E.M. Forster put it, "Only connect!…Live in fragments no longer."
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Flipping the Default Setting on Philanthropy: An Interview With Kathleen Enright
In today's Social Velocity blog interview, I'm talking with Kathleen Enright, founding president and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO). GEO is a diverse community of more than 450 grantmakers working to reshape the way philanthropy operates and advance smarter grantmaking practices that enable nonprofits to grow stronger and achieve better results.
Prior to GEO, Kathleen was at BoardSource, where she was responsible for building public awareness of the importance of strong nonprofit boards. Prior to joining BoardSource, Kathleen was a project manager for the National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation where she directed a Ford Foundation funded project to encourage collaboration between nonprofits and local governments.
Kathleen speaks and writes regularly on issues of nonprofit and grantmaker effectiveness at national and regional gatherings of executives and trustees and in various publications including Investing in Leadership: Inspiration and Ideas from Philanthropy's Latest Frontier and Funding Effectiveness: Lessons in Building Nonprofit Capacity. She is also a contributing blogger for The Huffington Post.
You can read other interviews in the Social Velocity Interview Series here.
Nell: GEO has been around for 15 years working to "advance smarter grantmaking practices that enable nonprofits to achieve better results." In that time, has the work gotten harder or easier? Is the foundation community more effectively contributing to nonprofit results?
Kathleen: We have some new data on that exact question. GEO's fourth national study of staffed grantmaking organizations is due out next month. The headline is that while the field is moving in the right direction on many fronts, we still have a long way to go.
We appear to have reached a "tipping point" on a few issues. At long last, the majority of staffed foundations in the US report seeking and using grantee feedback to inform their work. As good practices like this one become more common — even expected — it'll become harder and harder for holdouts to justify the status quo. Similarly, on general operating support — one practice that has stubbornly held steady for years — we're finally seeing movement in the right direction.
The reality is that there's a lot of work still to be done. In our last survey we learned that during the economic downturn — when nonprofits needed flexible, reliable, long-term dollars the most — many foundations backpedaled on things like funding multiyear grants. That the new survey shows we're back to pre-recession levels is a positive step, but we have a long way to go until we're able to flip the default setting in philanthropy. Achieving this goal means making it so that multi-year, general operating support is the assumption and program officers and grantees need to make a specific case for why a program-restricted or short-term grant makes sense.
Nell: According to the most recent State of the Sector Survey by the Nonprofit Finance Fund, 41% of nonprofit leaders cite long-term financial stability as a top challenge, yet only 9% of them feel they can have an open conversation with funders about operating reserves. How do we bridge that gap and make it easier for nonprofit leaders and funders to talk openly about and invest effectively in financial stability? Do you think foundations' appetites for capacity investments are growing, or waning, and how do we make capacity investing more appealing to funders?
Kathleen: Our field study will expand on this point as well, but the perception gap is huge. Funders declare themselves willing to talk about financial health, but grantees still don't feel safe to do so. My takeaway here is that foundations need to do much more to signal to grantees that they are open to having such a discussion. Closing this perception gap won't happen in one go. We need to find ways to normalize these conversations, including the questions or fears a grantee might have. We need to be conscious that sometimes our funding practices act as nonverbal cues that close down conversations about financial stability. It's hard to believe a funder is earnest about discussing financial health if they aren't already doing the basics, like offering flexible, long-term support. Ensuring that nonprofits feel empowered to have these conversations will only happen through word and deed.
It really comes down to a fundamental shift in how many funders think about nonprofits. When a funder thinks about grantees as merely suppliers who offer what amounts to an appealing product that leads to a bit of tunnel vision. However, when grantees are seen as crucial actors in efforts to create lasting change on the complex social challenges a funder cares about, they are much more likely to take a broader, long-term perspective.
In terms of the appetite for capacity investments, we held a series of "listening sessions" with nonprofit leaders last year to learn more about their experiences with capacity-building. Most staffed foundations in the US do provide some sort of capacity building support, so some of what we wanted to uncover is how to make the most of those investments. Based on those sessions and 15 years of experience on this question, we believe that by taking an approach that is contextual (tailored to the unique needs of the grantee), continuous (taking the long view), and collective (considering how the parts add up), grantmakers will be well positioned to provide capacity building support in ways that effectively support nonprofits to achieve lasting impact.
Nell: In recent years there have been studies and efforts aimed at getting more donors to channel donations to nonprofits that can prove results. How optimistic are you that we can change donor, particularly foundation, behavior toward funding based on results? And what will it take to get there?
Kathleen: It's reasonable for foundations to want to make sure their funding leads to impact. And with technology making data collection easier, it's natural that there's a lot of buzz in the field about evidence and results. But it's complicated terrain.
Not only do we lack a shared agreement on what proof or evidence means, most grantmakers and their nonprofit partners are focused on complex social problems with no easy answers. There was an excellent article in Forbes on the limitations of what the authors call "moneyball philanthropy," where too great on an emphasis is placed on a clear or measurable cause and effect between the work and the impact. The bottom line is that if foundations only fund those things with "proven" results, they'll miss opportunities to support important work on systems that has the potential to be game-changing.
Job number one in our view is to understand what's working, what's not and how we can continuously learn and improve. It often means taking risks and understanding what went wrong. The reality is that many nonprofits are ill-equipped to build the appropriate information infrastructure or conduct evaluations because they haven't received the financial support to enable them to build that capacity.
So before we move too far in the direction of funding only based on results, grantmakers must consider how we can help grantees build their sophistication around evaluation. It's a first step — and an incredibly powerful one — to help nonprofits grow their impact. This may mean providing flexible funding or tailored funding to support the development of evaluation plans, staff training or paying for third party evaluators. GEO members like the Bruner Foundation, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and Mile High United Way have worked diligently over many years to strengthen nonprofit capacity for evaluation. Their work suggests that such investments often have much farther-reaching positive effects on the organizations they support. We produced a short video on the Hartford Foundation's work to build grantee evaluation capacity (which actually draws from the Bruner Foundation's impressive body of work) that you can find here.
Nell: Foundation money only accounts for about 2% of all the money flowing to the nonprofit sector, which is a fairly small piece of the funding pie. Is there a role, and if so what is it, for foundation leaders to lead other larger sources of funding in the sector (government, individual) toward more effective giving?
Kathleen: Institutional philanthropy has incredible insights and wisdom that could be enormously helpful to help steer other dollars intended for the public good. One of our newest board members, Peter Long, President and CEO of the Blue Shield of California Foundation, is an advocate for creating more "open source philanthropy". His idea is that, as a field, we'll be able to make faster progress if we're generous with our thinking. What if every funder interested in improving health outcomes could benefit from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's wealth of knowledge? This is especially important for newcomers, as building this open knowledge base both gives them a place to start from as well as gives them an opportunity to build our collective knowledge. Being "experts" in philanthropy is a role that foundations can — and should! — embrace.
Another way foundations can show leadership is by pooling resources to address complex issues. The Washington Families Fund is an example of just how powerful it is when foundations come together and work with public entities. As a public-private partnership, the Fund is capitalizing on the resources of foundations — including GEO members like the Campion Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Medina Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, and Seattle Foundation — coupled with the on-the-ground capacity of government entities like the Washington State Department of Commerce to reduce homelessness in their region by 50 percent by 2020. Examples like these demonstrate just how powerful public-private partnerships can be.
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10 Great Social Innovation Reads: September 2014
There were some pretty exciting things happening in the world of social innovation last month. From a new fund to make philanthropy more effective, to a new blog series written by funders making the case for investing in nonprofit leadership, to some ideas for making performance measurement more accessible to small nonprofits and arts and culture organizations, to some interesting partnerships between philanthropy and city government.
It all made for a great month of reads. Below is my pick of the 10 best reads in social innovation in September. As always, add what I missed to the comments. And if you want a longer list, follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or LinkedIn.
You can read past months' 10 Great Social Innovation Reads lists here.
- The Fund for Shared Insight, a collaboration among seven major foundations, launched in September. The group plans to "pool financial and other resources to make grants to improve philanthropy…to encourage and incorporate feedback from the people we seek to help; understand the connection between feedback and better results; foster more openness between and among foundations and grantees; and share what we learn." They plan to be very transparent with this entire experiment. I can't wait to see what develops.
- Another development in the realm of improving philanthropy was the launch of the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog series where foundation leaders discuss why and how they have invested in nonprofit leadership development. As I mentioned earlier, Ira Hirschfield from the Haas Foundation kicked off the series, and Surina Khan from the Women's Foundation of California was next up. To have such an open dialogue about nonprofit capacity investments, particularly around leadership development, is amazing. Let's hope it encourages similar conversations outside the blogosphere.
- And the third piece from the world of philanthropic enlightenment, Daniel Stid of the Hewlett Foundation wrote a great post about ending the nonprofit starvation cycle. As he put it, "Effective leaders need to be willing to take the risk of saying something that a funder might not want to hear when their organization's long run effectiveness is at stake. If they are not, then shame on them. Funders, for our part, should fund the full cost of the work we are asking our grantees to undertake in a way that leaves their overall organization and its finances whole; if we don't, then shame on us." Amen!
- There is further evidence that philanthropy as we know it is changing – a new report by The Economist takes a hard look at how Generations X and Y (those born between 1966 and 1994) are transforming philanthropy, particularly around "a strong desire to have a measurable, enduring impact." This is exciting because if donors increasingly invest based on results, we can shift more money to social change. As the authors of the report put it, "The young generation of givers is focused on data, measurement and demonstrable results. More than any other generation, they want to check facts, know all the information ahead of time and ensure that they are well-informed at every stage of the process."
- And there was lots to say about measuring performance this month. The Foundation Center and WINGS, a global network of 90 support organizations serving philanthropy in 35 countries, announced the creation of The Global Philanthropy Data Charter to gather and share philanthropy data for public benefit.
- Measuring impact is complex and costly, but Carly Pippin from Measuring Success, offers 4 steps for how small nonprofits can assess impact affordably.
- Measurement is particularly challenging in the arts and culture arena because, as Natasha Bloor of The Old Vic Theatre explains, "There is an understandable reticence within the cultural and creative industries when it comes to proving the social value of art. For many, the arts have an intrinsic worth that cannot be mapped or measured, with the primary benefit found in creative self-expression itself, rather than the longer-term effects experienced afterwards." But she offers a new approach that they have found very effective.
- And for a completely free way to assess the social value of building low-cost housing, child-care centers, and health clinics there is the Social Impact Calculator, developed by the Low Income Investment Fund. They developed the tool to measure the effect of their own work and then decided to share it.
- Stephanie Jacobs of the Nonprofits Assistance Fund offers some tips to turn your board into the financial leaders they need to be.
- And finally, there were some interesting examples of partnerships between local government and philanthropy aimed at strengthening cities. Rona Jackson from Living Cities described 5 ways philanthropy and local government can work together. And the Kalamazoo Promise, a partnership between local philanthropists and city schools that pays tuition at a Michigan college for any student who graduates from a Kalamazoo school, shows these ideas in action.
Photo Credit: Valerie Everett
10 Great Social Innovation Reads: August 2014
Between my own time away from social media in August, the general end of summer quiet, and of course, the glut of posts about the Ice Bucket challenge (of which I have already said my piece), my list of great reads in August is admittedly slim.
But there was some interesting debate, most notably about "strategic philanthropy" and about ratings agency Philanthropedia. Also, calls for more nonprofit leadership development and for nonprofit leaders to get out of their own way by taking the Overhead Pledge. Throw in a little Mark Twain, some sharing economy, and a dash of Millennial analysis and you have a pretty good month in the world of social change.
So below is my pick of the 10 best reads in the world of social innovation in August. For an expanded list you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Google+. And you can see past months' 10 Great Reads lists here.
- Leadership development is a woefully underfunded need in the nonprofit sector. Indeed from 1992-2011 only $3.5 billion of the nearly $287 billion dollars granted by foundations went to support leadership. In order to get more foundations investing in leadership development, Rusty Stahl offers case studies of 9 foundations who already do.
- In the summer issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review, the lead article "Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World" caused quite a stir in the philanthropy world with many arguing that there is not much new there. In August, Alliance Magazine ran a series of editorials by philanthropy leaders as counterpoints. Most interesting among them was Avila Kilmurray's, former director of the Community Foundation of Northern Ireland, response, in which she said "Can we not just recognize that when any funder sets her/himself the task of addressing complex issues…there needs to be provision for continuous consultation, practice, reflection and change?"
- An interesting article in the New York Times paints the Millennial generation as a very communal-minded one, where "the highest value isn't self-promotion, but its opposite, empathy — an open-minded and -hearted connection to others." From working, to eating, to shopping it seems Millennials bake social into everything they do. How will the world be different if that holds true as they age?
- Writing in Forbes, Tom Watson asks whether nonprofits should participate in GivingTuesday. As he puts it, "Is #GivingTuesday a well-meaning marketing promotion – or is it a real, organic movement for change?…[Does it] seek to increase U.S. giving from 2% of GDP (where it's been stuck for two generations) to some higher point?" Amen to that!
- Rating nonprofit effectiveness is such a tricky challenge. Philanthropedia, one rating system that is driven by crowdsourced feedback from experts, comes under fire from the clean water space for being just "a popularity contest." But others claim it's an improvement over previous evaluations.
- Writing in the Chronicle of Philanthropy Nicole Wallace shows the value of sharing data by profiling Crisis Text Line, which gives other nonprofits, researchers and government agencies access to their data of 60,000 counseling sessions with teens in crisis to use in their own programs. It begs the question whether other social change data could be shared and how we make that easier to do.
- Sue Dorsey from Water for People was among a group of nonprofit leaders at the InsideNGO conference who took the Overhead Pledge in August, vowing to fully disclose the true costs of their nonprofits. And she encourages other nonprofit leaders to follow suit. This is exciting because it is not enough for funders to get over the overhead myth, nonprofit leaders must as well.
- I am always a sucker for connecting literature and/or history to social change, and even better both, so David Bonbright's post about how Mark Twain would have viewed recent trends in business is fascinating. Bonbright argues that Twain wanted American business to fully integrate profit and community. And we are beginning to witness this trend again where companies are "embracing the full implications of what they are – what they mean for the environment, for communities, for the most marginalized people affected by their supply chains…[because] this is best way to remain competitive and successful over time." Let's hope!
- The new "sharing" economy is not all good, but not all bad either, as Daniel Ben-Horin argues that "there are enormous opportunities for the social sector to engage with the values-driven segment of the sharing economy."
- Finally, some guidance on making your nonprofit email marketing more mobile friendly and your website better able to connect people to your cause. It's all about responsive, engaging design.
Photo Credit: Seth Anderson
10 Great Social Innovation Reads: May 2014
Does it seem like there is more open debate lately in the social sector? Or maybe I'm just attracted to discussions where the gloves come off and (let's hope) transformative conversation happens. That was the case in May where philanthropic transparency, nonprofit leadership, and donor acceptance policies were all up for debate.
Add to that some really interesting developments in the new "sharing economy", net neutrality, and use of big data, and it was another great month in the world of social innovation.
Below are my 10 favorite reads from the last month, but please add what I missed to the comments. And if you want to see a longer list of great reads, follow me on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Google+.
And you can see past months' 10 Great Reads lists here.
- Writing in the New York Times, Frank Bruni criticizes some nonprofits for accepting donations from donors who actually undermine the cause. These nonprofits, in effect, end up whitewashing the philanthropists, "Some [philanthropy] is prophylactic or penitential: The polluter supports environmentalists, while the peddler of sugary soft drinks contributes to campaigns against obesity."
- And philanthropists themselves were far from criticism this month. Writing in The Atlantic, Benjamin Soskis believes it is critical for a healthy democracy that philanthropists go under the microscope, in fact: "Given the power that private philanthropy can wield over public policy, a spirited, fully-informed public debate over the scope, scale, and nature of that influence is a democratic necessity." Phil Buchanan from the Center for Effective Philanthropy agrees. And to that end, May saw the launch of Philamplify, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's attempt at a Yelp-like review site of foundations.
- In a long (but well worth the time) piece, Albert Ruesga from the Greater New Orleans Foundation lays bare his antipathy toward his fellow philanthropists: "We grantmakers, myself included, act as arrogant elites, drawing arrows and triangles on the whiteboards of our well-appointed conference rooms with no one around to challenge our flawed thinking. We strut about like giant roosters puffing out our breast feathers and clucking incoherently about 'disruption' and 'theories of change.' We look foolish to everyone except ourselves and those even more foolish than we are."
- But there are bright spots. Daniel Stid from the Hewlett Foundation takes to the Hewlett blog to refreshingly demonstrate funder transparency and explain "What Went Wrong in Our Democracy Grantmaking." And Peter Buffett, son of Warren Buffett and author of a scathing critique of philanthropy last year, has a fascinating debate/very civilized exchange with ethicist William MacAskill about how effective (or harmful) philanthropy can be.
- We are living in the era of big data, and this month there were some really interesting examples of how data can be used to make things better. First, UPS uses data to improve driver performance and profitability. The University of Texas at Austin is doing some fascinating things with data to help at-risk students graduate. And some nonprofits are using data to improve fundraising effectiveness.
- Last month saw the first-ever sharing economy conference. This new idea – that our economy is evolving to a point at which goods, services, ideas are all shared – has serious implications for the social sector. Lucy Bernholz and Beth Kanter break it down for us.
- And a key part of that sharing economy is an open Internet. But the FCC is considering changes to rules that would allow a "two-tiered" Internet where those with means can pay more for faster service. The Benton Foundation did a nice summary of developments around net neutrality. And the Electronic Frontier Foundation organized to let voices be heard by the FCC.
- Innovation is hard work. So when the work of creating social change drags you down, you only need look as far as Steven Pressfield for inspiration, "When we're stuck, when we're freaking out, when it all seems too much too soon too crazy, remember: that's only how it seems to us, confined within our limited point of view. From the universe's perspective, all is as it should be. Sooner or later, you and I will stop fighting and let the symphony/supernova/baby be born."
- Using data from the Nonprofit Finance Fund's most recent State of the Sector survey, work by state associations of nonprofits, and new Uniform Guidance for federal grants from the federal Office of Management and Budget, Beth Bowsky from the National Council of Nonprofits charts some positive developments in government funding the true costs of nonprofits' work.
- Never one to sugar coat it, in an interview on the Idealist blog, Robert Egger describes his vision for the next generation of nonprofit leaders: "Our society needs an elevated nonprofit sector, but to get there, we need people who are prepared to challenge antiquated ideas about the role we play in the economic and political process."
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Now that Memorial Day has come and gone, and summer is (almost) upon us, I'm excited to announce that I'm doing something a little different on the blog this summer.
In addition to the Social Impact Exchange conference I mentioned earlier, I will be traveling a lot this summer connecting with nonprofit and philanthropic leaders. I'll be blogging about what I learn in my travels and conversations. And, I'm really excited to announce, that I have an amazing group of guest bloggers who will be posting throughout the summer as well.
These guest bloggers are people who really make me think and will offer some really interesting perspectives. I've invited them each to take over one Social Velocity blog post sometime during the summer.
Below is the guest blogger lineup with some background on each of them. Their posts will begin in late June. And I will continue to post throughout the summer as well.
Social Velocity Summer Guest Bloggers
Robert Egger
Robert is the founder of DC Central Kitchen and LA Kitchen, as well as the nonprofit sector advocacy group, CForward. Robert was included in the Non Profit Times list of the "50 Most Powerful and Influential" nonprofit leaders from 2006-2009, and speaks throughout the country and internationally on the subjects of hunger, sustainability, nonprofit political engagement and social enterprise. He is a tireless advocate for the nonprofit sector, encouraging nonprofits to take their rightful seat at the table. He is always pushing us to think bigger and smarter about social change. You can read my past interview with him here and my post about CForward here.
David Henderson
David is the founder of Idealistics, a former social sector consulting firm that helped organizations increase outcomes, demonstrate results, and organize information. He has worked in the social sector for the last decade providing direct services to low-income and unhoused adults and families, operating a non-profit organization, and consulting with various social sector organizations and foundations. David's professional focus is on improving the way social sector organizations use information to address poverty. He writes his own blog, Full Contact Philanthropy, which I highly recommend. He will make your head hurt, but in a really good way. You can read my interview with him here and watch the Google Hangout he and I did about Using Real Performance Data to Raise Money.
Jessamyn Lau
Jessamyn is Executive Director of the Peery Foundation, a family foundation based in Palo Alto, California. The Peery Foundation invests in and serves social entrepreneurs and leading organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Jessamyn helps shape the foundation's strategy, develops programs, strengthens the foundation's portfolio, and supports existing grantees. Her experience as part of the founding Ashoka U team has given her the perspective and skill-set to help the foundation develop new methods to support and build the field of social entrepreneurship. You can read my interview with her here.
Adin Miller
Adin is Senior Director of Community Impact and Innovations at the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund. In this role, he develops new strategies and programs to bring about change and impact within JCF's mission. Adin focuses on defining metrics to document impact, maximizing measurable impact and increasing the visibility of the organization. Prior to JCF, Adin was a nonprofit consultant and had his own blog, Working in White Space, which was phenomenal. You can read my past interview with him here.
Laura Tomasko
Laura is a network developer at the Council on Foundations, where she tracks philanthropic trends and builds relationships with leaders advancing the common good across sectors. She also leads an impact investing initiative and regularly interacts with those interested in the changing landscape of social good. Previously as manager of public-philanthropic partnerships, she built the capacities of federal agencies interested in partnering with foundations. Before joining the Council, she worked at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and at the Central New York Community Foundation. Laura has been named a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. She is also a StartingBloc Fellow and writes for UnSectored, serving on advisory boards for both organizations. You can read my interview with her here.
So there you have it. A summer guest blogging lineup that I am thrilled about. I can't wait to read what they all have to say. Stay tuned!
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a poem about too many people and too much heart.you were myconclusion- the last paragraph and the last thingi got to say. i loved you and itook words frombetween my eyelashes and iput them down foryou, i took you aparta million times in my mind and always put youback together-and i drewyou, soft and silhouettedagainst mywindow, the panefoggy and i thought of youin the darkest of times, because i kept telling myselfthat you were thelight (like you promised). i know that i am justa girl withtoo much heart andtoo weak of ribs; buti was hopingthat you would help the foxeshunt the hounds, just fortonight.
patron saint of liars and fakes.a dark sky andflowers starting to sprout--this is wherewe found him, where i loved him for the first time (but not thelast), and this is where my heart is.he was calm, 17years old but with more decades thanthe godsstitching his lips closed; perpetually silent, but neverstill.and on his arm -that war torn territory-they lied shone in the halfsun, his last wordswritten in the blood of his heart (and some ofmine, too).
the price to pay for breaking a heart.this is a fact: it hurts to bebroken. but what hurts evenmore isbeing one one whodoes thebreaking.to be the personwho stands over the otherand watchthem choke on theirtears and thenhand them their ownheart- rip someone apart and thennot be able toput them back togetheragain.and when you close youreyes, all you can seeare the ribbons coming undonefrom their wrists. you crumble from your owndisgrace.
no town is worth this blood.i'm tired ofpouring my heartinto a town that willnever be full.the people here are cross eyed, staring at the too-hot sun on their noses and tripping over greedy train tracks; i think we moved hereto get away, but nowwe're stuck here,2.5 hours from the Windy City; fuck, we're stagnant. there isacid in the rain, and i am choking onillusions.
the lives of past loves.i. nabove all else, iwould like to thankyoufor waiting under themulberry tree; i'm sorry i never gotto see youthere.ii. myou- the boy whoate my heart. i'm glad you showed me whatmonsterslook like. iii. jyou made me believethat i actually didhave eyed as brightas the ocean.but you taught methat following yourbrainis not always the rightchoice.iiii. gwith your heartin places you'venever been, you left behindthe only onesthat gave you a placeto love-that red Camaro won'tget you outof your head.iiii. boh, those big gentle-killer eyes- i loved you for wantingto put me backtogether;you loved me for howi cameapart in yourhands. iiiii.i ethe one with his soulcaught in theclouds- don't let these one way streetsbring you down.just promise me that youwill always rememberhow happiness tastedon your tongue.
april.here is thetruth: i am just a sad teenage girl withtoo many scars anda healing heart.but here is whatis true: i am learning to findhappinessin the misery-i am internally alone andseemingly petrified (which is aterrible mix, really), buti am finally ableto let myself fall in love. and i may be bad atendings, but i thinki'm beginning to understand that minedoesn't have to beright away.
,i used to part my hair down the middle,but then i stoppedwhen i was twelvebecause innocencewas heavy,or something likethat.besides,we all have to grow up,don't we?
8:15i.silently, with hushingeyes, he watches the atmosphere-he treads it around hishair and his fingers and heart, breaths it in; ii.when he is done dancingwith devils and dead friends, he reaches into me andpulls out a flower- he puts it behind myear, and he loves while he burns.iii.i take his ashes andi put them on thepetals (he said not to forgetthe beauty indeath, and i'm tryingwith all the heart inside me).
don't love me until you've seen me bleed.i think thati'm falling in lovewith you.no. no, no no, don't you say that, because you've never seen meat 4 amwith my eyes glazedand my mind a battle field (and my arms paying for the weaponry).you haven't heard mechoke back sobs after midnightbecause god dammit i can't sleep,and the screams in my earsaren't helping matters,and i don't thinkyou will ever see me bre a kand shatter andfall into the greedy gripof a panic attack and then try in vainto claw myself back up. but there is that hot hope in methat tells me that youare different. youcan look pastthe scars and the tearsand the screams and the nightmares. andmaybefor once in my damn lifei'm praying that i'm rightabout someone for once.
a.m./p.m.i put my handsin the stars-feathery hair, coldskin and cyanosis fed, i realize that i amnothing. born in neither winteror spring, crying aboutcherry tree spines andthrowing stones, iwas left for thewolves. it is the dawn ofFebruary, and i am so close toseventeen that i cantaste it; i am very nearly choking on age. the sky beckons me most at 11:49 pm, becauseit's hovering between tomorrow and yesterday--that destroys me. i want to burn it to theground, breathethe ashes in like cigarettes ondirty curbs. i am stuck here in a windowless town witha thousand memories stuck between my canines;into the wind, i drop words like deadweights. take me home.
cherry blossoms.one after theother, we swallowedsong birdsuntil we bled ourselvesdry.bones andall- their feathers stuckin my stomach. you, darling,you bloomed under my palm like amountain, like thesunrise. i watchedas you traced two goldenwings with yourtongue, like some kind ofdusk and dawn godhybrid. after all thatskin and dust and love was gone, you turned to meand almost smiled before you went away. i am still tryingto understand how tomiss you.
.to thestar gazers outon dusty bridges-the ones whocould never seeApollo'schasing grin-keep looking.
.the problem is, i pulled myself out of hell, buti did so for him.
you ate the stars and i ate my heart.this is how i wasdestroyed: ifell in love with a boywith razor sharpteeth and apoet's heart. it's really adreadfullypretty kind of thing.using his borrowedcraft-man'stongue, he took me in like afour a.m cigarette (slowly, andwith loneliness in every one of hisjoints). we both thoughtthat enough smokewould fill in the cracks in ourrib cages; we were bothwrong.he told me that he wouldlike to be aplanet: "all that openspace, all those dyingstars. it would give me room tobreathe".instead of telling him thatthere is no oxygen inouter space, iwatched him feel his lungsimplode. it broke mybones to witness it; but it's really adreadfully pretty thing tosee.
between here and there.i.- the whorish age.i was born young, but i thinki've somehow always beenseventeen. that's really the most impossibly lonesome ageto be. here you are, stuck in the middle ofinnocence andadulthood- god, seventeenis such a fuckingtease. it's all the want, and noneof the get, none of the have.ii.- the epitome of in betweens.maybe it's justme. after all, i am constantly grasping at thein betweens. i liveon 'maybe's and 'perhaps's, feast on'could-have-been's. it'swhat i breathe. the worst one, to me, is 11:49 p.m.; it's almost a new day, but it's just11 minutes away. it'sin between yesterday andtomorrow. i wonder if11:49 p.m. is lonely. i wonder ifit can feel the buzz ofnothingness, the hum of everything itis not. i wonder if i am 11:49 p.m., because i amdrowning in the thingsi have yet tobecome.iii.- the typewriter with pins for keys.there is thisthing inside of me,
stupid love poems for stupid boys.he was thesmoke in myeyes, thatmidnight cigarettesaved for wheni'm so lonelythat i cannotmove.but the problemwith giving yourheart to a boywith a pack ofMarlboro redsfor ribs is thathe will want yourlungs aswell– and afterall that blood andblue lip kisses,he will leave youwith a coughinglighter and aburnt tongue (butit's really a greatfucking buzz).
as love for summer fades.late morning-early December. there's the tease of snow in the clouds,in the air, and the treeshave finally lost theirlast leaf. the sunlight is damp.it hardlyalters the roomas it graces my skin,and for oncei don't wake up right away.instead i laybetween my memory bittensheets, and i thinkabout all the times he saidthat he hated winter.i don't rememberwhen i began to love it,and i don't care.it's beautiful.nothing can shatter that.
untitled.so said the feather hearted girlto the manwith worlds sewn in hispalms:"keep writing, even ifwords tear you apart."(and so he did.)
you've been dead for a year, my deari met you on december 21st,the longest night of the year.you had solstice eyes: cold, dark, alluring.i knew you were not meant to last,powerful as a gale but fragile asthe tulip stems you snapped,a sickening cycle of you,an overwhelming tidal wave.they say two wrongs will never make a right,but i made so many bad choices thati wound up back where I began.it was too easy to love you,but getting you to love me back was impossible.i clawed at your chest until I struck blood,until my nails split into shards.you were born a phantom,and i, your corpse.holding onto you felt like drowning in quicksand;i fought but always sank into your arms.i breathed in dirt, breathed in dust, andfound my organs choked with you,smothered by your existence.you sucked out my breathevery time i kissed you.i died every day with your handknotted in my hair.You left on june 21st,the longest day of the year.i bit down sorrow and deconstructedthe labyrinth within me,the one you hadn't th
confess, like there's blood pouring out your mouthfear is licking at thiscobwebbed mind & ifeel cinematic; like asteam-powered poet,i'll write myself into amisanthropic migraine& outline cinder bonesto match - ingenue,you are an esoteric'snightscape & i, yourmorning's fever burns.
all we ever do is decayI.nobody falls in love with saturn,but everyone, her rings.II.this disjointed skull is a smirkingmirror bending back reflections.this disjointed skull is a sleep-smoker.III.you were a utopian seven lives ago,but nobody lives in this body anymore.
cancer-eyes, cancer-eyes,(i think i had wings, once, back when theworld still looked a little lighterthan the darkness--)i.they told me, darling, we've gotsome news about thatsickness in your bones; but not to worry, notto worry, we'll try our best to find a way...ii.i used to think 'our best' was good enough, backwhen i could stand on my owntwo feet without slipping and slidingas the world turned sideways; back when i was youngerand staring at the pillows on the bedat the fallen-out hair lying on the crisp whitelinen; and as tears rolled through my eyelashes the apologiespoured from parent's lips, whispering promises thattomorrow will be better, it will --iii.i'd spend hours staringat my skin, wondering what code, what sequence hadgone wrong to cause a sickness without a cure -my veins were black, not blue, and theyonly carried poison; they were crossed wires, held togetherwith glue and stitches and strung up againin the wrong order when they stopped working awhile -i learned
the gardenersMy father is a good man.His hands, dry andcallused, carry a caseof Corona Liteto the gardeners inour backyard.Big-brimmed hats castshadows down their faces,and a pile of thick,gray gloves lieson the glass table.The beer looks like liquidgold in those clear bottles,and condensation clingsto the glass like the sweatbeading at their brows.My father and the gardenersdrink, laughing like they'veknown one another for years.There is nothingthat brings men togetherbetter than beeron a hot day.
.all we are is cheapmetaphorsgoldfish drowning inthe ocean, birds that forget how toflap their wings, mid-flight
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I Jan. 26, 1960 G, w. D'ARCEY ETAL 2,922,357
WAF'FLE IRON Filed Aug. 22. 1956 Fig. l
dest-md ,Pm/v 5 @HAMM/320W /3 WMA/m25 Patent Agent Unite n" WAFFLE IRON Gerard W. DArcey and Joseph J. Ryan, Campbell, Calif.,
The present invention relates to cooking utensils and more particularly to waifle irons.
lIt will have been observed that substantially all wallie irons incorporate upper and lower gridded cooking plates that are hingedly connected in a manner permitting the upper plate to rise and fall relative to the lower plate. This arrangement permits the expansion of the batter during the cooking process which may oftentimes lift the upper plate one quarter of an inch or more above the lower. The arrangement also permits the upper plate to thereafter settle again under its own weight into abutting relation with the lower plate as the cooking cycle nears completion. The result of such settling of the upper plate is quite obviously a squashing of the batter which substantially negatives the production of a light, fluffy, open-textured wafe. In short, as a result of the weight of the upper plate of the waie iron, waies regrettably do not have the desirable lightness obtainable in the baking of cakes, bread and other similar products. l
Accordingly, it is a general object of the present invention to provide a wafe iron arranged to preclude squashing of the cooking batter so that the cooked wale is of a light, uffy texture with an appreciably enhanced avor.
A feature of the invention relates to the incorporation in a watlie iron of means that are automatically operative in response to the raising or displacement of the upper plate from the lower plate to maintain the displaced, separated relationship of the two plates.
A further feature relates to the simple, albiet effective character of such displacementn1aintaining means which holds the displaced plates in balanced-separated relationship.
Additionally, it is a featureof the invention to incorporate a mechanism operable to release the abovementioned displacement-maintaining means whereby the plates of the wafe iron can return to abutting relationship.
A further feature relates to the automatic actuation of such release mechanism simultaneously with the pivotal raising of the upper plate of the waffle iron when a cooked watlle is to be removed from the iron.
These and other objects and features of the invention as well as the advantages stemming from its use will become more apparent from ea perusal of the following description of a preferred embodiment of the invention as shown in the accompanying drawing wherein:
Fig. l is a perspective view of a waflle iron constituting such preferred embodiment of the invention, and in its open position for receiving waffle batter,
Fig. 2 is a side elevational View of the waiie iron in its closed position, and
Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional View taken substantially along line 3-3 of Fig. 2.
As shown in the drawing, the 'watlle iron consists generally of a base portion anda lid portion 12 that States Patent are adapted to be placed in superposed relationship, as can be clearly visualized by reference to Fig. 2.. With continued reference to Fig. 2, it will be observed that a conventional hinge structure, generally indicated at 14, is arranged to pivotally connect the base and lid portions 10 and 12 of the iron so that such lid portion may be pivotally raised to the open position illustrated in Fig. 1 to permit insertion of the Wale batter. It will also be observed that the conventional hinge 14 incorporates a slot 16 that permits limited vertical displacement of the lid portion 12 from the base portion 10.
The base and lid portions 10 and 12 of the wale iron respectively incorporate similar gridded plates 18 and 20 which are heated' by the passage of electric current through heating coils 22 and 24 in a conventional man ner. Thus, when batter has been placed on the lower plate 18 and the lid portion 12 has been closed thereover to bring the upper plate 20 into engagement with the inserted batter, the supply of elect-ric current to the heating coils 22 and 24 will heat those gridded plates to thereby` instigate the cooking process. As the cooking process proceeds, an expansion of the batter occurs to effect an upward displacement or lifting of the lid portion 12 of the wafe iron.
In accordance with the present invention, means are provided to maintain the lid portion 12 and the upper gridded plate 20 incorporated therein in its lifted or 'elevated position, as illustrated in Fig. 2, after such position has been attained to thereby preclude subsequent squashing ofthe expanded, cooking batter. In its preferred form shown in the drawing, such means takes the form of like wedge mechanisms, as generally indicated at 26, which are positioned at substantially opposite sides of the iron. Only one wedge mechanism 26 appears in the drawing, but it will be understood that the other `mechanism is substantially identical therewith.' Each of such mechanisms includes a track 28 formed at the side of the lower plate 18 so as to be inclined slightly relative to the plane defined by such lower plate. A wedge 30 is supported from the upper plate 20 for movement within a suitable bracket 32 for movement in parallelism to the plane deined by such upper plate, the wedge 30 having an inclined surface arranged to engage the described track 28 secured adjacent the lower plate 18 when the upper and lower plates are brought into abutting relationship. Consequently, when the wedge 30 is moved in parallelism to the planes of the abutting upper and lower plates 18, 20, a vertical displacement of such plates relative to one another is effected. A spring 34 is compressed between one end of the wedge 30 and a spring housing 36 attached to the lid portion 12 of the iron, so that the force of the spring constantly urges the wedge 30 to the right as viewed in Fig. 2 thereby tending to lift the lid portion 12 from the base portion 10. Such lifting does not occur as a result of spring pressure alone since the force of the spring 34 is insuticient to overcome both the weight of the lid portion 12 and the frictional resistance existing between the wedge 30 and the track 28. However, when the cooking batter lifts the lid portion 12 in the manner previously described, the force of the spring is then suicient to move the wedge 30 to the right and to the position shown in Fig. 2 whereat the upper gridded plate 20 is displaced approximately one quarter of an inch from its normal position of rest in abutting relationship with the lower gridded plate 18. It will be apparent that the force exerted by the expanding batter so as to lift the lid portion 12 will be supplemented by the force exerted by the spring 34. Once the upward displacement of the upper plate 20 (and the lid portion 12) lhas occur-red, the frictional resistance between the wedge 30 and the inclined track 28 is suicient to resist downward movement of the upper plate which would normally result from its own weight.
Accordingly, during the cooking process, after the batter has expanded to raise the lid portion 12 to its displaced position, substantially as illustrated in Fig. 2, such upwardly displaced position will be maintained throughout the remainder of the cooking cycle so that the emergent wale rather than being a squashed product, will always be somewhat thicker and more opentextured. The amount of displacement of the upper plate 20 will vary dependent upon the amount and character of the waffle batter, but once the raised position is attained, it will thereafter be maintained by the wedge mechanisms 26.
To enable the return of the upper plate 20 into abutting relationship with the lower plate 18 preparatory to the instigation of a succeeding cooking cycle, means are provided to positively move the wedge 30y to the left, as viewed in Fig. 2, to thereby release the lid portion 12 from its raised position. Conveniently, such means takes the form of a cam 40 pivotally supported, as indicated at 42, at the side of the lid portion 12 adjacent the end of the wedge 30 remote from the spring 34. Such cam 40 is actuated manually by the grasping of an attached handle 44 that also serves to enable the pivotal lifting of the lid portion 12 about the hinge 14 to the position illustrated in Fig. 1. When the handle 44 is grasped to lift the lid portion 12, such handle moves about the pivot 42 in the direction of the arrow A in Fig. 2 which brings the high portion of the cam 40 against the wedge 30 to move the same to the left so that simultaneously with the opening of the iron for the insertion of new batter, the wedge mechanism 26 is automatically reset for the instigation of another cooking cycle. Preferably, a stop 46 is positioned adjacent the cam 40 to limit the pivotal movement thereof in both directions.
Various alterations and modifications can obviously be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. Consequently, the foregoing description of apreferred embodiment of the invention is to be considered as purely exemplary and not in a limiting sense; the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims.
What is claimed is:
1. A wafe iron comprising upper and lower gridded plates, means forming a track on one of said plates in inclined relationship with the plane defined thereby, an inclined wedge supported from the other of said plates for movement in parallelism with the plane defined by said other plate, said wedge being arranged to engage said track whereby movement of said wedge varies the relative displacement of said two plates, and spring means constantly urging said wedge in one direction.
2. A wale iron according to claim l which comprises manually operable means for moving said wedge in a direction opposed to the action of said spring means.
3. A wafile iron comprising upper and lower gridded plates, means forming a pair of tracks at opposite sides of said lower plate and inclined relative to the plane delined by said plate, a pair of inclined wedges supported from said upper plate for movement in parallelism to the plane defined thereby, said wedges being arranged to engage said tracks whereby simultaneous movement of said wedges effects an even displacement of said upper plate relative to said lower plate, and spring means urging each of said wedges in a direction to effect increased displacement of said plates relative to one another.
4. A wai-lie iron according to claim 3 which comprises means hingedly connecting said plates whereby pivotal movement and limited displacement therebetween is enabled, and means including a cam pivotally supported on said upper plate adjacent each of said wedges for manually moving said wedges against the action of said spring means.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,866,874 Barnes et al. July 12, 1932 2,033,060 Anderson Mar. 3, 1936 2,033,067 Fromknecht Mar. 3, 1936 2,211,900 Leavitt Aug. 20, 1940 2,566,915 Young Sept. 4, 1951
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