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Going Beyond the Dollar: The Community Leadership Role of Foundations

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By engaging in policy discussions, supporting research and analysis, and partnering with advocacy organizations, foundations can address the root causes of social issues and create an environment conducive to the success of their grantees.

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

At our first in-person design sprint*, the group challenged each other to bust orthodoxies that hold us back from reducing hunger. Some of the challenges we are seeing is increased need of food as we have added the middle class families as part of food insecurity not just the families in the poverty level.”. What Were The Results?

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

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Some foundation executive directors form peer coaching circles with other Eds to help each other meet specific challenges or embrace new opportunities. For example, one collaboration’s gap analysis revealed that a city’s private funders offered minimal support in the areas of health and drug addiction prevention.

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Three Tips for Common-Sense Fundraising

Connection Cafe

Fundraising is certainly not exempt from this problem; we base decisions too often on expediency rather than an analysis of long-term consequences. Yet, despite this abundance of data , fundraising faces serious challenges and many nonprofit organizations are balancing their futures on very shaky foundations. Horace Greeley, editor).

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Adventures in Evaluating Participatory Exhibits: An In-Depth Look at the Memory Jar Project

Museum 2.0

Better yet, the graduate student who led this project, Anna Greco, documented the whole project and did in-depth analysis of the visitor contributions. THE RESEARCH The challenge, of course, was to figure out how to evaluate the experience in a way that would help us identify the power of the project. What was it?

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The Nonprofit Weekly Roundup: Things You Won’t Believe, Trendy Communication, and Keys to Do More Good

Connection Cafe

It was like waking up from a nap in what I thought was my childhood bed, only to find that it was 3:00 p.m. I guess the reality is that a new year means new challenges, new expectations, and a whole lot of caffeine; the slate might be clean, but your calendar sure isn’t. and I was actually in my cubicle, drooling on my laptop.

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6 Steps to Zeroing Out Child Labour Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Child labour is a violation of every child’s right to a childhood. This data and its analysis can help governments increase the capacity of law enforcement bodies, labour inspectorates, agricultural extension services, child protection and education services to investigate, prevent and mediate child labour and forced labour situations.

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