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Research Friday: Human Capital Performance Bonds. What are they? How do they work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Minnesota has enacted legislation to pilot the HuCap bond, in a program that will look at the “desirability of using state appropriation bonds to pay for certain services based on performance and outcomes for the people served” (Minn. Alternately, performance pool continues operating, funded by cash returns re-investment by government.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

Museum 2.0

Some are funding projects. I respect my colleagues who are writing, advocating, funding, and researching the nuances of community work. OF/BY/FOR ALL is one of many projects in a growing ecosystem of efforts to propel more inclusive institutions. Some people are writing toolkits. Some are giving workshops.

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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Father McKenna Center : The McKenna Center serves the needs of the poor, men, women and children through a variety of programs funded by generous individuals, religious orders and institutions, foundations and government grants. Their use of Facebook was instrumental in winning Sears’ Dads Making a Difference Contest.

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Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

NAACP + NAACP Legal Defense Fund —The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization formed as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. . Find yours here.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. This time I had three agenda items for my conversations with congressional staff: Advocating for funding for special education. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!)

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