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Research Friday: Lessons in board governance

ASU Lodestar Center

We welcome your comments and feedback. The Central Asia Institute is only one nonprofit organization that has fallen from grace due to poor nonprofit governance. Thankfully, a recent survey conducted by BoardSource in 2012 shows signs of increased governance among nonprofits 2. Increased accountability and self-assessment.

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Social Media and Governance: Reflections from BoardSource

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance. There were no examples – so the last chapter of the book is speculative, based on the best thinking of the people who have looked at networked governance. What type of policy is needed related to me having contact with them on FB? Board source.

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Social Enterprise Summit's Policy Track

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of the highlights of last week's Social Enterprise Alliance's Summit was the Launch of the Policy Track. A lot of cool things happened in the policy track (even I spoke), but I think the interesting thing was Carlos' comments. According to Carlos, the Office is part of the domestic policy team inside the White House.

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Policy 2.0: Can Online Collaboration Lead to Better Public Policy?

Forum One

" in which we (the people) got the power to publish, share, comment, friend, follow, tag, and organize online. " and the trumpets sounded for transparency of government data and innovation. Now, Hope Street Group (a Forum One client) has opened up the policy making process with a new collaboration platform: Policy 2.0.

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29 Nonprofit Resources to Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Of course, there are many other resources deserving of being listed – if you would like to add one, please do so in a comment below: 1. Policy, Leadership, Governance. Armchair Advocates :: @ ArmchrAdvocates. Social Media, Cause Marketing, Nonprofit Tech. armchairadvocates.com. Huffington Post Impact :: @ HuffPostImpact.

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Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook"

Forum One

These are the themes I heard while attending the interesting Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook" event this past Monday in DC, organized by the team of Lucas Cioffi , Stephen Buckley , and Kaliya Hamlin. Here are some insights I picked up: Open Government Directive: Coming soon? Impressive. Maxine Teller.

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Foundation giving and payout: what changed in 2021?

Candid

Like independent foundations, several commented that although total grant amounts increased, their payout remained the same or decreased due to growth in assets.? . We had a large influx of government funding in 2020 and 2021, which we granted out in those years. Please share your ideas in the comments section below. . [1]