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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

sgEngage

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Their donors, staff, and board members have extensive knowledge of local needs and organizations, and they also have relationships with local leaders in business, government, and education.

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Going Beyond the Dollar: The Community Leadership Role of Foundations

sgEngage

Understanding Community Leadership Community leadership involves actively engaging with local stakeholders, identifying shared goals, and working collaboratively towards achieving them. Networking and Collaboration: Foundations can serve as connectors, facilitating collaborations among their grantees and other community organizations.

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our first cohort of Community Fellows came together last week to dig into the topic, specifically investigating: How might we support food banks and food suppliers in anticipating people’s needs locally to provide nutritious meals with dignity? Director of Advocacy, Policy, and Research, Hunger Free America. Emilio Tavarez.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Elsbeth Pollack

ASU Lodestar Center

Elsbeth Pollack is a Program Manager for Public Allies Arizona (PAAZ) , an AmeriCorps program that engages service-minded young individuals in 10-months of paid leadership training, apprenticeships, and service opportunities in collaboration with local nonprofit partner organizations. Meet Elsbeth.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. It donates the products to impoverished people, preventing millions of hygiene-related deaths each year and encouraging vigorous childhood development (Clean the World, 2015).

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

Our distaste for writing followed us into adulthood because we still suffer from the same writing inadequacies we had in childhood. In fact, we created a policy stating at least three staff members had to proofread any document slated for public distribution. We suffer writer’s block. We struggle to organize thoughts.

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Recapping the First Salesforce Nonprofit Summit Sessions

Cloud 4 Good

Advocates on local and national levels provide direct service to over 150K children and families each year. Prior to Salesforce, the CDC Foundation utilized Raiser’s Edge to facilitate their mission. Success Story: How Zero to Three Improves Childhood Development Through Salesforce Technology.