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Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation and Impact: Reflecting on Our Journey

The MatrixFiles

For a change, Leah Monica, Director of Marketing at Matrix Group, interviewed me about my personal journey and the journey of Matrix Group. I’ve got my eyes on the next three years and boy do I expect a lot of change, challenges, and fun! The WHAT of our work has changed, is changing, will always change.

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Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

sgEngage

In early 2022, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy began an organization-wide grants change management review. We also ensured that we reflected industry best practices for funders and our own organizational values were embedded deeper into our grantmaking practices and partnerships. Getting the right people in the room is key.

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Strengthening Your “Internal Partner” Muscles

VQ Strategies

Regardless of where leaders of volunteers fall on an org chart, their success relies not only on nurturing positive relationships between volunteers and the organization but also on nurturing effective partnerships internally with other staff. Change Agent? Become an effective internal partner. Administrative Expert?

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Unconscious Whiteness in Philanthropy: Week 1 Reflections

John Kenyon

Multi-racial organizing is needed for any kind of long-term change in racial justice work. Many more are working on educating themselves, leading initiatives to understand their part in racial inequity, as well as working to make changes both internally and in their grant making. – All-white spaces have a plac e.

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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

Based largely on input we’ve received from individual organizations and partners, we’re proposing 205 changes to the PCS. Before moving forward with these changes, however, we want to give as many people as possible a chance to weigh in on them. These recommended changes then went through multiple rounds of internal review.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Overnight Reflection. Photo by Trav Williams.

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

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Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. Learning, we do naturally.