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Connected Citizens Report: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Discussions around these scenarios are useful to philanthropy in making decisions about where to invest in social change in the future. The premises and questions for the future include: Interconnectedness: People will have more connectivity and more information. The scenarios are both possible and provocative.

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A Revolution in Documentary Film

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One notable aspect of the success of Gasland, which recently won the Emmy Award for documentary film, is the way director Josh Fox worked with grant makers at the Fledgling Fund to galvanize a movement that greatly amplified the efforts of traditional environmental groups.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Philanthropy Southwest / Austin, TX / $625. Yale Philanthropy Conference 2016. Yale Philanthropy Conference 2016. Yale Philanthropy Conference / New Haven, CT / $110. This year, the Yale Philanthropy Conference will explore the evolving role of philanthropy within this ecosystem of change. Governance.

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2020: The Year that Changed Grantmaking

Connection Cafe

The practice of funding has traditionally been lopsided in favor of those doing the granting. When funding is awarded it comes at the cost of time, energy, and resources that could otherwise be spent concentrating on impact; and if the grant proposal is rejected, all that time and energy was for naught.

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