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Having Greater Impact Through Community and Collaboration

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That’s when we knew that collaboration—bringing people together and unifying them around a common language—would be a vital part of our solution. In addition, the sector-sourced taxonomy will continue to grow and improve as more giving organizations use it to inform their strategies.

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Kicking off SOCAP16 at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

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” Impact investors, social entrepreneurs, foundations, and global NPOs come together with the goal of furthering social, environmental, and economically sustainable solutions. You can compare this to traditional foundations, which invest in programs to produce positive social outcomes.

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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Outcomes & Social Investing: Key Themes for Funders

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But the pull to be down the street with my fellow Corporate Social Responsibility and foundation colleagues was just too strong. Data help nonprofits tell their stories while also managing results, leaving more time for collaboration – On the flip side, data help funders manage results, leaving more time for collaboration.

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Lessons from IGS16: The How-To’s for Applying the SDGs to Grantmaking

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The SDG Indicators Applied,” along with Irene Pritzker, President of the IDP Foundation and Karolina Mzyk Callias , Policy Specialist & Team Leader, SDG Philanthropy Platform, UNDP. The SDG Philanthropy Platform aims to advance the SDGs by encouraging philanthropy, the UN, governments, the private sector and NGOs to collaborate.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

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Moderator Antony Bugg-Levine from the Rockefeller Foundation got a big laugh when he made the usual polite introductions of one panel’s speakers and summarized by saying, “they have an incredible impact on the world… or maybe they don’t”. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy.

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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

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The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” The co-facilitator was Amy Hedrick who works in Product and Design Innovation at Intuit. ” What is Human Centered Design? Making: Methods for Envisioning Future Possibilities.