Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Ford Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals or inquiries; however, they do have a year-round open funding opportunity in the arts, specifically for documentary filmmakers. They provide access and opportunities in education, housing, mentorship, health care, environment, and the arts. Daniel & Pamella DeVos Foundation.

Arts 73

Arts Grant Culture Fund 73

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Organizational Overview: Background information on the nonprofit’s history, structure, and key personnel. Now, let’s say that, during a proposed budget review, you notice that the board has cut funding for a top-rated yearly educational program with your constituents. This also works in the inverse.

Guide 52

Guide Business Support Metrics 52

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. Since upper leadership doesn’t spend much time interacting with lower-level employees, it’s important to ask them for their feedback about improving the organization’s culture and work environment.

Ideas 52

Ideas Practice Roles Leadership 52

Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Will your learner base actually utilize the new proposed functionality? It is important to establish a clear direction as to what you want these new structures to accomplish. Focus on ways to maximize user interaction with the learning environment. You shouldn’t be the only person contributing to your learning environment.

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Program Learning Social Learning Environment 61

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. We welcome that.

Artist 49

Artist Museum Proposal Participatory 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. I also have been around this.

Environment 50

Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2019

At Common Impact, we’ve identified three keys that will help you confidently structure a pro bono project, identify organizational challenges your potential partner could help solve, and propose a skills-based volunteer engagement that meets your nonprofit’s needs and supports the interest of the volunteers.

Skills 31

Skills Model Nonprofit Volunteer 31

Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Pricing structures. As partners, as a collective, without creating toxic/un-needed structure? Struggling with letting go of hard-care contracts into a more agile environment. Different price structures are ok for different projects. How to size up clients if they’re a good fit? what are the red flags?

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Consultant Structure NTEN Skills 100

Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

If you are engaging a web developer or in the middle of an RFP process for a new site, be sure that proposals include mobile friendliness in the project. Lose the training wheels – If the site was developed in a staging or beta environment, make sure there are no absolute paths to the earlier staging url.

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Websites Plugin Test Feeds 73

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Step 3: Analyze Your Nonprofit’s Work The most important questions you should answer in your mission statement are who you serve, how your programs are structured, and your impact on your cause. They could be helpful in finding new ways to talk about your mission in your fundraising appeals, grant proposals, and more. Who Do You Serve?

Examples 95

Examples Language Iowa Nonprofit 95

Forum One

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We can’t do this without cultivating and enforcing a corporate culture of psychological safety: an environment where no one will be punished or shamed for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. Clarifying decision rights, e.g., who has the authority to greenlight an experiment or implement a proposed change?

Hints 85

Hints Structure Proposal Challenge 85

Forum One

APRIL 30, 2010

To be clear, I am not sure Pietersen's proposal is that new — I have been saying something similar for some time — but that shouldn't stop one from finding value in it. The model consists of a four-step cycle: Learn: The act of reviewing the external environment in which the organization exists.

Internet 44

Internet Process Strategy Learning 44

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. That said, there are structures within government that can handle risk. The current environment is ripe for this to happen. When you systematize these things they become formulaic.

Game 132

Game Education Change Classroom 132

CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

You can structure donation tiers as impact-based or as recognition/reward based perks for your donors. Developing Strong Grant Proposals Making a case for support is at the foundation of a strong grant proposal. Mixing both story and statistics will help you create a powerful proposal.

Strategy 82

Strategy Organization Fundraising Grant 82

Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. The Corps Network National Conference is an annual gathering of national, state, and local leaders in the fields of youth development, community service, and the environment. Finance / @southwestfdns.

Calendar 85

Calendar Conference Las Vegas DC 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

I was asked by marketing to submit a full proposal to them about Facebook and get their approval before going forward and for anything I post to the group. Is the protection worth it in the new environment? The young professionals group revolted. They are now using Facebook on their own. How are people rewarded for communicating?

Social Media 75

Social Media Culture Effective Media 75

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Monica publicly launched Museum of Impact this year with an exhibition on #blacklivesmatter, and she has projects on other themes--immigration, environment, mass incarceration--in the works. Since we're "telling the story of America through structures," how in the world do we tell this one? Want to know more?

Culture 20

Culture Work Museum New York City 20

Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

Be sure to understand the nature of any proposed “customization” first in order to avoid misunderstanding. What about development environments and tools? Make sure you understand how your development team plans to work, and think through how to partner in the process.

Build 32

Build API Evaluation Exercise 32

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. That said, there are structures within government that can handle risk. The current environment is ripe for this to happen. When you systematize these things they become formulaic.

Game 60

Game Education Change Classroom 60

sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

They offer the ability to be a proposal reader to anyone who is interested, listing the time commitment and expectations directly on their site. Maine Initiatives: Maine Initiatives has been using a Participatory Grantmaking framework since 2016 to help advance their racial justice efforts.

Participatory 69

Participatory Trend Community Grant 69

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. Contests are good for raising awareness and focusing behavior, but not good for building sustainable communities or work in a flexible environment. Trust is essential, especially in a changing environment.

Virtual 21

Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

We spell poorly, and we know less grammar and sentence structure now than when we played tetherball. Your job is to dis­cover ways to create an easy-going environment that encourages your entire staff to become better writers. Your board members write thank you letters , and your chief exec­utive writes partnership proposals.

Tips 92

Tips Nonprofit Sample Skills 92

Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Guide the environment management plan and release strategies for projects, validating that the correct development environments, change controls, and deployment plans are in place.

Canada 40

Canada Data API Skills 40

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. It had a lot of interesting, sometimes esoteric information.

Museum 20

Museum Conversation Columbus Local 20

Care2

MAY 29, 2009

But the impact on the environment from direct mail actually goes far beyond the number of trees cut down. “Moving to an online fundraising structure allows us to move quickly and react to campaign needs in a way that direct mail never could.” to dramatically increase their use of recycled paper content. Let us know!

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Mail Social Media Advocacy Online 34

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

What we also believe will start to happen is that you create an environment of sort of inspired competition. This is the country I am in, " whether it is a rural or urban environment, "and now I want to calculate, how does the amount I was paid for this article compare to the minimum wage, the average wage, a non-poverty wage in my country?"

Gift 40

Gift Marketing Create Interview 40

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

We’re sort of in this kind of hybrid environment related to COVID. And if you can develop those relationships with funders, if you can develop great core content, if you can leverage materials for different kinds of proposals, then that is really going to set you up for success. . And I think Steven was right.

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Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And the book is structured in a way where each of these elements is given its own chapter with a whole bunch of stuff in it. But it also depends, in a B2B environment, whether what you’re asking about is directly aligned with the corporation’s mission too. And oftentimes it makes sense to go bold.

Build 121

Build Video New York City Communication 121

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. I’m glad to see that more than half of you are using a structured process and a grants database. First, I mentioned you should use a database and a structured process to search for funders. . So maybe your board members randomly tell you about grant opportunities.

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 74

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Today, we take a page from Wallace Stevens and look at some alternative ways to structure museum admissions and pricing. The Tech's director recently proposed a novel way to re-frame admissions (and membership in particular): you aren't paying for yourself, you're paying for a visitor who can't afford it. Pay it forward.

Museum 28

Museum Movie Local Model 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

The Greenpeace Mobilization Lab has a project proposal idea for a “ Mobilization Journal ” as part of the Knight News Challenge. We seek to identify, test, and co-create new ways of engaging individuals more deeply to protect the environment and promote peace.

Journal 101

Journal Change Learning Technology 101