Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 98

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Like many diversity efforts, including women’s voices in grantmaking decisions—particularly women from historically marginalized groups—doesn’t often happen organically. Those who are the topic of inquiry should be at the center of inquiry,” said Dr. Couvson. “We Artwork by Toya Beacham See Women and Girls. Intentionally.

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

This week before I leave for the Middle East, I will have the honor of presenting at the Grantmakers For Effective Organization’s Conference in Seattle. I am doing a session called “ Learning in Public ” with Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, TCC Group. Stay tuned for a blog post about it.

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Results Seattle Evaluation Michigan 95

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

My much-loved client, Community TechKnowledge , recently asked me to serve as the curator of their new guest blog. Since 2005, I've been murmuring that the future of blogging is not with individual blogs like mine, but with well-designed web sites that feature clusters of blogs by diverse authors who are focused on a coherent mission.

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Brain Delaware Aggregator DC 78

Bonterra

AUGUST 15, 2022

Find your product Corporate Social Responsibility Align grantmaking and workplace giving with your company values and employees' passions to maximize social impact. Find your product Program Management Modernize the way your organization serves and drives greater outcomes in your community. We got your info We'll be in touch soon.

Phoenix 52

Phoenix Grant Case Study Disaster 52

Candid

JUNE 2, 2021

For eight days, this group of philanthropy professionals dedicated to advancing equitable, effective grantmaking practices came together to connect, learn, and share in critical discussions about the practice of grantmaking. See our blog post on the IRS 990-filing backlog ). That’s even more relevant this year!

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Data Profile Grant Philanthropy 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

A huge thanks to the small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle and published blog posts to share their reflections and thoughts. Cindy Rizzo, Senior Director, Grantmaking and Evaluation, Arcus Foundation. Carla Javits, President, REDF.

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Blogger Conference Effective Seattle 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Over the past 18 months, I’ve been participating in The Network of Networked Funders , a community of practice for grantmakers facilitated by the Monitor Institute. These grantmakers are supporting and working through networks to pool their learning and increase the impact of their respective grantmaking practices.

Network 99

Network Conversation San Francisco Support 99

Classy

APRIL 9, 2021

As you develop language for different funding priorities, organize it into folders by topic to make it easy to pull for additional grant applications. Most grantmakers want to fund specific projects and costs, so ensure you’re tailoring your grant proposal message to those needs by using effective storytelling.

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Proposal Grant Effective Language 83

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

I worked with a group of eight organizations with two staff people from each. So, I’m very interested in this topic and will have a lot more to say once I recover from jet lag. I’m very grateful that the OE Team at Packard has shared this guest post about this important topic.

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Consultant Pakistan Support NGO 98

Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c) And I would like to respond to the third.

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Asia Indonesia Poland Government 54

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 10, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us!

Arizona 40

Arizona Americorp Philanthropy Phoenix 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Two years ago, we joined with seven other grantmakers to launch the Fund for Shared Insight to work on this very practice. Lindsay Austin Louie is a Program Officer for the philanthropy grantmaking program, which sits within the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Effective Philanthropy Group.

Research 67

Research Foundation Austin Philanthropy 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The topic intrigued me, but I must confess that I was also drawn to the session because Beth Kanter was facilitating it. How Can We Learn in Public?

Public 94

Public Learning Evaluation Seattle 94

Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

I decided, on my latest foray along the cliffs, to write a series of blogs focusing on the overarching themes that I feel are important for every nonprofit organization to know about and understand as we move into 2017. Transparency issues have been a topic of discussion within the grantmaking world for a while now.

Alaska 36

Alaska Demonstration Mexico Grant 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Note from Beth : In March, I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the GEO Conference (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) with Kathy Reich, Director, Organizational Effectiveness Program at the Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group, that helped OE analyze its “goldmine” of grantee data.

Strategy 98

Strategy Public Evaluation Foundation 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) has a r esource collection on how funders can support resiliency. Flickr Photo by J Ronald Lee. In the nonprofit sector, resiliency is framed as both a leadership skill for nonprofit professionals as well as organizational capacity. Resilience as a concept is not new.

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Organization Technique Flickr Skills 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curators provide a customized, vetted selection of the best and most relevant resources on a very specific topic or theme. As Rohit Bhargava points out in this post via Robin Good , a content curator continually seeks, makes sense of, and shares the best and most relevant content on a particular topic online.

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Content Skills Feeds Tutorial 139

Connection Cafe

MAY 2, 2019

However, with just a little extra effort you could be finding opportunities that help you advance your skills and position you as a thought leader in your field, whether that is fundraising, grantmaking, accounting, monitoring & evaluation , communications or one of the many other roles that make social good organizations successful. .

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Professional Develop Free Linkedin 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. What will we do with the learning when we have it?

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Conference Learning Effective Organization 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. Beth Kanter has blogged about the topic for years. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

Internet 102

Internet API Taxonomy Conference 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Participants will do a real-time grantmaking process during which up to $100,000 of Learning By Giving Foundation capital will be allocated to student-selected nonprofits. The online course is six-weeks. The goal is for students to create an Individual Giving Action Plan to guide their future giving in a meaningful way.

Giving 99

Giving Free Lecture Module 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

Transparency isn’t a means to end, but is part of a ladder or scaffolding , particularly if used to spark public learning to make grantmaking strategies more impactful. This refers to grants for projects that were ahead of their time or more experimental. Kathy Reich offered some context.

Social Media 102

Social Media Foundation Work Media 102

Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. And while we’re on the topic of getting good data, here’s a non-Idealware resource by the European Venture Philanthropy Association called A Practical Guide to Measuring and Managing Impact.

Foundation 67

Foundation Resource Technology Listserv 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2012

We devoted a whole chapter to the topic in the Networked Nonprofit. ” Linda Wood, Senior Director of Leadership and Grantmaking, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. – Linda Wood is senior director of Leadership and Grantmaking at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr.

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Fund Learning San Francisco Leadership 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Philanthropy by Design : This course teaches students to use design thinking principles to create their own social impact plans and engage in real-world grantmaking (sponsored in the past by the Arrillaga Foundation and now by the Learning by Giving Foundation). 3) Giving 2.0:

Giving 98

Giving Philanthropy Teach Student 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here.

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Summary Conversation Wiki California 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Two reports have been released on the topic of capacity building: “ Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together ,” from GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center and “ Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity ” from GEOfunders. This post summarizes gems from both reports.

Report 50

Report Build Evaluation Nonprofit 50

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2019

In six years, I received over $160,000 in federal, state, and university grants to support my research, present and network at conferences, and conduct field work—all on a relatively niche topic (contemporary French literature, film, and graphic novels). We’ll be looking much more closely at all four topics in my blogs in the coming weeks.

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Grant Articulate Application Awareness 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report analyzes many examples of networks and provides tools and tips for Network-Centric Grantmaking. Diana Scearce, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with on the Network of Networked Funders project, is the report author. This blog post at the Knight Foundation talks about designing for serendipity in more detail.

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Network Report Empowerment Structure 104

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2019

there are over 86,000 grantmaking organizations awarding over $60 billion in grants each year. There are several different types of grantmaking foundations, including public foundations, private or independent foundations, family foundations, community foundations, and corporate foundations. In the U.S.,

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Grant Fund Application Phase 26

Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. And while we’re on the topic of getting good data, here’s a non-Idealware resource by the European Venture Philanthropy Association called A Practical Guide to Measuring and Managing Impact.

Foundation 36

Foundation Resource Technology Listserv 36

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Grantee evaluation is a perennial hot topic in the foundation world, nonprofit evaluation is a lucrative industry in universities, and there is a whole high tech industry emerging to rate charities online led by Charity Navigator. Please log in to comment on this blog post. Most Nonprofits Lack The Software They Need.

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Evaluation Service Measure Database 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

A few days ago, I moderated two panels at Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on arts and technology. John Haydon recently pointed to his new screencast about Insights and Ted Fickes offered a shoutout on Twitter to Avinash Kaushik most recent blog post. He also suggests looking at topics, times, and geo location.

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Metrics Facebook Data Measure 96

BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

Outside of that one big-picture item, much of the rest of the content can focus on any topics that reqire board decisions or strategic input. This blog is excerpted from the book, Nonprofit Board Service for the GENIUS , written by Susan Schaefer and Bob Wittig. . Decision points. Yet, it’s one worth investing some time.

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DC Government Nonprofit Classroom 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Vincent Stehle is a regular columnist for The Chronicle of Philanthropy and a member of the Board of Directors of Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media. Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts.

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Guatemala Movie Artist Award 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

He shared some the basics of what grantmakers should look for in a nonprofit business plan: 1. He recommended that funders should ask to see a business plan when there is new venture, or one that is ready to scale, is anticipating major growth or has a goal of sustainability. Market: Is there a need for this? Is this new and unique?

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Review Business Nonprofit Measure 106