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Going Beyond the Dollar: The Community Leadership Role of Foundations

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Foundations play a crucial role in supporting nonprofit organizations and driving positive change within communities. However, in recent years, there has been a growing recognition that foundations possess the potential to offer more than just monetary resources.

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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

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When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Still, many foundations shy away from working together, assuming it will require considerable time and a loss of independence. . Benefits of Funder Collaboration .

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Empowering grassroots organizations: building capacity, diversity, and relationships

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Foundation. Foundation, we trust those who are closest to the issues affecting their communities. Foundation, we trust those who are closest to the issues affecting their communities. Foundation does, including our calls for funding proposals and how organizations are invited to apply.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge. More specifically, datamaking is an action whereby we transform information into data so that data can contribute to knowledge.

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Signs Of A Successful Nonprofit Board: Making A Difference With 120 Hours

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By dedicating just 120 hours per year, board members can make a substantial difference in the organization’s growth, advocacy, fundraising efforts, and overall success. Advocacy: Spreading the message Successful board members go beyond their boardroom roles by actively advocating for the nonprofit.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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As Ceri Hutton wrote for the Baring Foundation, “PGM [participatory grantmaking] funds denote a different paradigm of funding and monitoring and evaluation need to be ‘re-evaluated’ in the light of this.” The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

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1 While all of these are useful tools for program development and planning, there is another strategy that provides consistent access to community input while also routinely building a supportive foundation from diverse, innovative ideas: the creation of strong advisory committees. What are advisory committees?

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