Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

As you get started on sifting through your data reports and action items completed this year, keep an eye toward how your internal and external reports can blend data-driven stories of impact. Effective year-end reporting involves blending internal and external data to showcase achievements and growth opportunities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Ten years ago, Jed was the head of REDF, the famous social enterprise foundation in San Francisco. Tags: impact investing blended value Jed Emerson REDF. Last week I was in New York City and had the opportunity to meet with many interesting people (and got lots of ideas). One key connection was with Jed Emerson.

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Forum One

AUGUST 11, 2022

This year, we were happy to continue our partnership with the Posse Foundation to recruit from a diverse group of talented students.Over the past two months, they seamlessly blended into the Forum One team and gained valuable hands-on experience along the way. Peter is a Posse Foundation Leadership Scholarship recipient. “I

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 24, 2022

Using local materials and traditional Cambodian architectural concepts, the NCA blends Khmer culture and an environmental ethos in a building that will train Cambodia’s leaders of tomorrow. Salesforce became the partner of choice thanks to its unmatched technological solutions and a foundation of shared values.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

For their part, foundations have tuned in well to nonprofits’ focus on being mission-driven. In my experience, two dominant frames are now shared by foundations and nonprofits. The annual reports of foundations celebrate how much money they have spent in a given area. Achievement lets both foundations and nonprofits stand out.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 16, 2021

Let’s touch on a few easy ways to ensure you’re mixing up your P2P strategy and blending it with your organization’s overall fundraising strategy. My recommendation is to use one platform, direct all DIY fundraising to that platform, make it accessible via your main website (like Rochester Regional Health Foundation did ), and MARKET IT.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This synchronization isn’t just fascinating; it’s the foundation of community-building. Showcase your mission through a blend of video, testimonials, or live demonstrations. Collective experience: Building community through stories Research from Princeton University shows that when we share stories, our physiological responses align.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 Communications Network Conference in New Orleans was a blend of content delivery and peer learning – a conversation about the value, different approaches and models, and best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Via Allison Fine The Case Foundation is looking for some folks to serve as external reviewers for the first part of its new grantmaking effort focused on igniting citizen-centered community work across the country. The Foundation has received some great applications from a number of people across the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

I'm sure many nonprofits (and foundations) who enter into the waters of social media for the first time feel this nervousness and perhaps fear. Here's a new fear: Reputation for accuracy, quality, and professionalism will be damaged if the organizations shows its human side. This morning was the big day!

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

As reported by Knowlton (2016), “…only 7 percent of nonprofits report that foundations always cover the full cost of projects they fund.”. Heron Foundation, put it, ‘In the long run, you can’t have strong programs in weak organizations.’” Grantor agencies also eschew funding these necessary expenses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

By getting to know these ideas, we blend them into our own frame of reference, creating something that is changed, if not wholly new. Kate Wing is a program officer in the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Marine Conversation Initiative.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Whether it be addressing the blended learning mix we provide, the content we promote directly, or the style in which our learners process information; there are countless decisions that we can make, and the answer that we provide today, may not be what is most effective weeks from now. Learning is a fairly nebulous industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Encouraging nonprofits to embrace this mode of fundraising was the point of the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge , one of the first giving contests launched back in 2007 where I was a first place winner raising funds for Cambodian children. Giving Tuesday takes a lot of these ideas and blends them together.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

In this blend, an L3C is a private organization that does earn profits, but only so that it can conduct business to help a certain cause. L3Cs were designed to make it easier for socially responsible businesses to attract money from foundations and private investors. In essence, it operates to better social welfare in some way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Hosting engaging online events and learning experiences has been of interest to me over the past ten years and the question of whether or not virtual events replace the face-to-face or how to best blend together. This past June, the Case Foundation , Achieve , and JGA teamed up for a little virtual experiment of our own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. I met Rufina in 2008 in Australia when I keynoted the Connecting Up Conference and taught social media workshops for NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

Photo by Chris John Beckett Sean Stannard-Stockton wrote a reflection on my analysis of the list of “foundations that tweet”. I look at what was being tweeted and the voice used (institutional versus personal versus a blend). on the Philanthropy411 blog.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. How did the authors come up with the intriguing blend of curatorial, interpretative, and inventive opportunities shown in the Audience Involvement Spectrum's Venn diagrams?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

This is a good example of a "Blended profile.". There are a couple of corporate Foundations where we have good examples of CEO's using social media effectively - in this case Twitter. His Twitter account is his personal account, but he identifies himself with his foundation and businesses.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

The software itself has been in development since 2010, but the OpenProject Foundation that supports it was established in 2012. Image 1 : Blended Images / Shutterstock. OpenProject is a web-based project management system designed to help dispersed teams collaborate on projects of varying scope. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. However, the traditional reliance of nonprofits on governmental and charitable funding is increasingly unsustainable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

These ventures offer solid rates of return as well as environmental and/or social benefits, sometimes called blended value. Role of Foundations in the movement. Foundations also do their own mission related and program related investing. Stephanie McAuliffe is the Director of Human Resources at the Packard Foundation. .

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The Stanford Social Innovation Review cites three issues that stop nonprofit mergers from happening : getting the boards aligned, finding roles for senior staff and blending the brands. The San Francisco Foundation and MAP Minnesota each published great, in-depth and comprehensive guides to facilitating a merger. We Can Work It Out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust. Colorado Project. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

Great service providers blend relationship building with unparalleled client service, because they understand that their customers have plenty of other choices. At that point, I had built a strong foundation of trust by keeping promises, responding consistently, and demonstrating value for the fees my clients’ paid.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

It was a one-day in-person free workshop, thanks to funding from Google Foundation , and attracted an impressive array of smart and informed nonprofit technologists. NTEN chose him to present on cloud security and financing because he has a unique blend of accounting expertise, technology know-how, and nonprofit industry understanding.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 25, 2017

I learned this not only through the research conducted by the Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) , but as a young aide working in Congress. They may seem to blend into the woodwork, but a sharp citizen seeks them out. Yet my experience is that town hall meetings can actually be wonderful opportunities for an exchange of ideas.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

This Web Courseworks guide breaks down the differences in detail, but let’s walk through a high-level overview here to set a strong foundation for the five models we’re about to cover: The subscription model allows you to better predict what the monthly or annual revenue from your eLearning programming will be.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

It involves a blend of research, consulting, capacity-building, writing and design, coupled with variables that are unique to an organization (such as its culture, budget and staff). Ask any animal that molts.replacing your skin is very, very stressful. Big Duck looked at everything. They interviewed key stakeholders. They sent out surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Quoting some notes from a workshop presented at Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Bootcamp by Colin Delaney of ePolitics and Laura Quinn.    I kept wanting to blend them. It just so happened that after reading Geoff's posts. They recommend that you allocate time and budget equally 1/3 between each.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Eventually wound up in microfinance with FINCA for 6 months, which blended her passion and talents. Started up a nonprofit foundation--the US arm of BRAC. Wanting to volunteer on her own, found it really difficult to find a good project match for her skill set. Using probono and skill-based volunteering was the key here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

For example, A Green Mountain Coffee Roasters sampler of Organic Breakfast Blend, Organic French Roast and Organic Sumatran Reserve is $26.95. Babatunde Olatunji" Full disclosure: New Mexico Creates is related to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, where my dad works. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

One of my favorite research reports is Daring to Lead , published by CompassPoint and the Meyer Foundation. The report details the challenges and perspectives of nonprofit CEOs in an elegant blend of statistical findings and personal voices. Everyone that works with a nonprofit CEO should read this report.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

She is also the creative director and designer of TranquiliT , an ecoluxe lifestyle clothing line, and the founder of Tranquil Space Foundation , a nonprofit that brings yoga, creativity, and leadership to women and girls. Our conversation began with Kimberly explaining what Tranquil Space Foundation is, and why she started it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 14, 2009

As people of good will tackle these challenges of the status quo, we’re gathered here in New Orleans to talk about a new and exciting movement that offers a chance to blend some of the best of those three different sectors and to create innovative solutions to the problems at hand. Right now it seems like we can’t afford government as usual.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

It involves a blend of research, consulting, capacity-building, writing and design, coupled with variables that are unique to an organization (such as its culture, budget and staff). Big Duck looked at everything. They interviewed key stakeholders. They sent out surveys. The report was thorough…and a bit brutal in spots.

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