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Navigating the nonprofit RFP process

EveryAction

from our friend Maureen Wallbeoff Lisa pinged me the other day—she’s the development director for a social justice organization. She asked for some advice around her (bumpy) request for proposals (RFP) process at her nonprofit. Lisa was losing confidence in herself—but the RFP process she was using was the real cause of her problems.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Learning, we do naturally.

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The GRANTS Writing Formula To Secure Awards For Project Grants

Bloomerang

Having a framework is the magic wand to writing a successful grant proposal. Step #1) G – Get the FOA/RFP/NOFA The first step in developing a grant template with the GRANTS formula is to G et the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) or Request of Proposal (RFP) or NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability): i.e. the grant instructions.

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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

These open challenges help activists, nonprofits, journalists, techies, and community members identify, refine, build, and launch technology tools to solve pressing local and regional problems. Making Everybody Part of the Process of Problem-Solving. Defining and Refining the Problem to Optimize Solving It with Tech.

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Mentoring Staff New to Nonprofit Work

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Sheryl Keeme , Executive Director, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. It only takes an oversight or a small error to blow up into a problem that could have been avoided with some basic facts. Have you ever been asked what you do for a living and when you responded, the person reacted as though you were Mother Teresa?

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Grantseeking in 2017: Know the Scene — Demonstrate Inclusion

Tech Soup

I think we have all come to realize that just adding a minority seat to your board of directors, or consciously making an attempt to fill that open position with someone from a different cultural background, simply isn’t enough. Encourage the board of directors to articulate an inclusivity statement for your organization.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month.

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