sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In philanthropy, unlike democracy, there is often no way for people to participate–to share what they think or to influence decisions. In recent years, that model is being challenged. What matters most in this model are values–and one in particular: equity. published by the Ford Foundation. Those at the top decide.

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sgEngage

MAY 16, 2024

Data Silos: Information may get trapped in departmental systems, hindering a holistic view of program effectiveness and impact. Inconsistent Formats: Data collected across various platforms often lacks standardization, requiring significant cleaning and transformation before it can be effectively analyzed. Ready to learn more?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 19, 2021

Grantmaking foundations have the financial resources that nonprofit organizations need to accomplish their work. Nonprofit organizations are doing the work essential to further the grantmaking foundation’s mission. Grantmaking practices are important to grantmaking foundations. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Heed legal requirements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2013

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced today that Lucy Bernholz will join the Foundation as a Visiting Scholar effective fall 2013 and through 2014. She will continue in this role in addition to her work with the Packard Foundation. Philanthropy'

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Candid

MAY 9, 2024

We are a funder collaborative that harnesses the collective power of philanthropy, financial institutions, and local governments to close racial income and wealth gaps and advance inclusive and equitable economic progress in American cities. million to member cities to develop such initiatives.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

From community involvement in your grantmaking decisions to better ways to think about risk, the current trends in grantmaking can help you make more effective decisions and more clearly tell your impact story. With Trust-Based Philanthropy, you focus on truly understanding the needs of the nonprofits you work with.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

The sector itself continued to change, but it was a challenge to effectively adapt questions to match those changes. In its blog post “ Practical Tools to Help Grantmakers put Learning First ,” the Johnson Center for Philanthropy reminds us how challenging this can be. What was “excellent” and what was “competent” was shifting.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In a recent discussion that included Adriana Jiménez , PEAK’s former board co-chair, she spoke about how some nonprofits have chosen to be small or nontraditional because it’s the best model for them to advance their mission. Risk models were not designed for our sector. When some foundations use the term, it translates to “protection.”

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

foundations’ giving. The data from these various sources are harmonized, and each record is coded according to Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System, either by Candid staff, our machine learning model, or a combination of both. . foundation grantmaking.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Nonprofit organizations meant to support these communities have suffered a similar fate in the federal response while foundations try to fill the void. This crisis will only serve to exacerbate the effects of slight growth in traditional funding sources for nonprofits, already trying to do the best with what they have.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2021

Foundation funding trends for AAPI communities. A recent analysis of Candid’s Foundation Maps data by Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy ( AAPIP ) found that between 2014 and 2018, approximately 0.2 percent of foundation funding for decades. million) came from foundations. [ii]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. It all comes down to intention, capacity, and audience as Jacob Harold observed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” Guest Post by the Packard Foundation OE Team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As a Master Trainer, one of my favorite models of training adults is the Peer Learning Exchange where a group of participants who are working on a similar project or domain of practices interact regularly to learn how to do it better. 18, and a Google Hangout with the Chronicle of Philanthropy at 1 p.m. ET Thursday Sept.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

There are seven free online courses available starting in mid-September by people like Paul Brest, former head of the Hewlett Foundation and a faculty co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. All of the Philanthropy University courses are free and available anywhere in the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nonprofits whose organizational cultures encourage outreach and relationship building are already laying the foundational groundwork of high-performing collaboration. They are setting the stage for transparent communication when evaluating compatibility and complementary “value exchange between partners” are in effect. Model selection.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2023

We often hear that nonprofits should model themselves more like businesses. I’ll take that one step further: Nonprofits that need to stretch nickels into dimes even in good times have more motivation to make sure they’re running as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. There is little, if any, fat to trim.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy. This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. Get Everyone Aligned Around the Culture of Philanthropy.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. Previously served as CEO of The Seany Foundation, a pediatric cancer foundation. Lewis Foundation. Anna Rathmann.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Grant funding can be a great way for a nonprofit to boost its revenue, with giving by corporations and foundations in the United States in 2013 amounting to $67 billion. Identify the relationships between a program’s inputs, outputs, and outcomes through the development of a logic model. Chicago: Giving USA Foundation.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

And one of the biggest event-driven fundraising models shuttered their doors. The latest numbers from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP), reveal the number of donors industrywide fell for the ninth straight quarter in Q3 2023. Nonprofit storytelling is the foundation of every successful marketing and fundraising campaign.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Aly Sterling Philanthropy. Aly Sterling Philanthropy is a partnership-driven consulting firm powering fundraising, strategic planning, and board leadership solutions for the well-positioned nonprofit. AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A donor’s objectives based on their interests, The most pressing needs within social impact areas or geographic locations, Nonprofits working to address those needs, Which of these nonprofits is most effective, Additional variables such as giving models, tax implications, legal considerations etc.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

What type of impact is the program making, and is it one that can be most effectively increased by scaling up this individual program? Scalable programs should be based on a strong theory of change or logic model, clearly linking program inputs to outcomes in a way that can be tested and evaluated to determine actual effectiveness.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Aly Sterling Philanthropy. Aly Sterling Philanthropy is a partnership-driven consulting firm powering fundraising, strategic planning, and board leadership solutions for the well-positioned nonprofit. AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

ImpactRising.org helps to make standards of practice explicit, so that social sector organizations like nonprofits, NGOs and foundations don’t have to reinvent the wheel. The project is funded by the Packard Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. A model of generosity.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The new system allows them to visualize their logic model in action across programs in 24 offices in 14 countries. Announced at Dreamforce was Slack for Nonprofits , our newest collaboration platform helping those both inside and outside of your organization work together more effectively, from anywhere.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

What was once a matter of checkbook philanthropy is now decidedly strategic, and the driving forces of CSR revolve around the convergence or fit between the company’s business interests (its customers, product line, and brand) and the offerings of potential nonprofit beneficiaries.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

To effectively advance your cause and push your fundraising goals forward, your nonprofit needs a strong internal infrastructure and team. Aly Sterling Philanthropy explains that nonprofit strategic planning is the process of aligning your organization’s goals with your values to provide a dynamic performance map for the future.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. More sophisticated methods of evaluation include random controlled trials (RCTs) or the use of a logic model. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

Data director Eric Dayton says their transformation work set them up to pivot strategically in 2020 when COVID-19 challenged every aspect of their model. The organization focused early in its transformation on unifying data about programming and volunteers. Dayton also says their data-driven culture empowers staff. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The campaign was modeled after the grand daddy of match days that happens throughout the entire state of Minnesota. I urge you to do an honest assessment and look at how effectively you initiate and nurture relationships with funders, sponsors, key partners, follow nonprofits and donors. Bigelow Foundation, General Mills, Inc.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

At the “Learning in Public” breakout session, Beth Kanter, Jared Raynor (TCC Group) and Kathy Reich (David and Lucile Packard Foundation) sharing the Packard Foundation’s experience with learning in public. What are foundations willing to STOP doing in order to make time for learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The traditional models of organizational leadership clearly don’t apply, but then, which models do? Kathy Reich is program officer for organizational effectiveness and philanthropy at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Guest post from Kathy Reich.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in order to better understand the flows of philanthropic dollars and enhance transparency and effectiveness in the global social sector. Many Thanks to Our Partners. A New Phase of the Project. spanhidden.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. The Lavelle Foundation is supporting us to expand Bookshare in India, which will likely be our first full-scale replication of Bookshare outside the U.S.

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