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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Grant makers and nonprofit professionals are now talking openly about some very painful (and inter-related) issues in philanthropy, such as. The lack of inclusion and equity in philanthropy. Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better. Philanthropy is at a turning point.

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Amplifying Female Voices: Strategies for Equitable and Inclusive Grantmaking

sgEngage

As a follow-up to the Women in Philanthropy Institute’s 2023 Symposium, hosted by the Indiana University Lilly Foundation School of Philanthropy, we gathered four dynamic grantmakers to discuss how they are doing the work to amplify female voices, especially women, girls, and femmes of color, in philanthropy.

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

Trust is the oxygen of any successful collaboration, even more than money, time, or mission. She serves on the Board of Directors for Los Angeles’ Blank Theatre Company and shares her midcentury-style home with Bowie, a 15-year-old Boston Terrier. The key ingredient throughout is undoubtedly trust. Build a trusted network.

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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit insiders are watching and debating how ALS will use the money and the donor retention strategy. And, of course the valid concern of wasting water in a drought. 5) Whacky, Goofy, and Fun: “Stunt Philanthropy” has been around for years. What can or cannot be reproduced? (1)

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Keynote by George McCully at NTC Boston

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(Note: My collection of vlog and blog posts on the NTC Boston 2005 can be found here ). He presented the new/old paradigm for philanthropy for individual donors. They view philanthropy as is an extension of their investment stock. They view philanthropy as is an extension of their investment stock. Philanthropy???

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Your Cause Camp 2018 Lineup is Here

NonProfit Hub

Kishshana is a social-good matchmaker, non-profit consultant and your coveted insider on philanthropy, recruiting and retaining diverse talent and cultivating bright ideas for social good. Lori’s gift is to help nonprofit organizations communicate powerfully so they raise exponentially more money. Julie Hirshey. philadelphiaeagles.com.

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Generational Giving at Arts & Cultural Organizations – A Donor Story

Connection Cafe

Anyone reading this blog that lives in the New England area may know that the symphony I was raised around is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. My youth was flooded by a series of Wednesday night rehearsals, regular BSO concerts, and multiple summer weekends spent at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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