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To What End?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. One effort to address this problem, in which I wish more funders would participate, is the Charting Impact initiative. Flickr Photo By PetroleumJelliffe. To What End?

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

This level of increased global philanthropy is worth a further look. The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4 PHILANTHROPY (U.S.

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4 bbcon 2019 Takeaways to Help You Maximize Your Foundation’s Impact in 2020

Connection Cafe

If you were unable to join us last month, we hope that you’ll join us next year at bbcon 2020 in Seattle. Because the world of philanthropy is transforming; impact measurement is your organization’s ability to track, report, and – most importantly –. bbcon Takeaway #1: Small investments in data quality will yield big returns.

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The Diversity Question in the Arts Blogosphere

Museum 2.0

A rare blog post that combines personal narrative with statistical charts. Barry Hessenius follows up with more thoughts on "coercive philanthropy" and how and whether funders make change possible in the field. Their interests run the gamut from issues of socio-economic inclusion to race, gender, and physical and mental abilities.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! Jason Z at DIA bog writes about the launch of " Make It Your Own: Case Foundation's Experiment in Citizen-Centric Philanthropy " which includes both MySpace and Facebook. NetSquared.

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Research Friday: Financial literacy: understanding money for today’s activities and tomorrow’s security

ASU Lodestar Center

Keeping in mind that this study focuses on those who make financial decisions for an organization , e.g. the CEO and the CFO, the following chart shares some interesting data. Sources: ^ [1] " Financial Literacy for the Long Term ," Philanthropy Matters, Vol. The Moody’s Foundation, 2011. 22. ^ [4] Ibid.