Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

Finding the right foundation to write a grant for is confusing, especially if the organization has no prior relationships to build on. Some foundations have open RFIs (Request for Information), open LOIs (Letter of Inquiry), RFPs (Request for Proposal) and others have open calls for applications around a campaign.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Here are seven ways your team can make sure your nonprofit has a strong financial foundation this year. Identify the top line for each channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept a professional journal. There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Here are seven ways your team can make sure your nonprofit has a strong financial foundation this year. Identify the top line for each channel.

Foundation 52

Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

How we learn is super important, as it’s the foundation of our ability to succeed. Unfortunately, “thinking about it” has little applied impact. You can get some of the same impact from embellishing a digital document with colors, shapes, arrows and other personal flairs. How about trying to journal?

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Candid

MARCH 12, 2024

And for those foundations who pronounce the goal to ease the burden for nonprofits and advance more equitable grantmaking practices, a scarcity framing emphasizes what you can’t do and stymies your efforts at the outset. By designing practices based on this principle, grantmakers can drive the sector’s collective impact in advancing equity.

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Learning Journal Practice Reflection 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Start A New Professional Journal(s): For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal(s), using a variation of bullet journal technique. This year I will continue my commitment to creative activities including “ Journal as Altar ,” and calligraphy with fountain pens. That is twenty years!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

2) Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Here they are: Rituals. Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

Compass by March of Dimes Mobile Standard of Excellence As part of March of Dimes’ mission to fight for the health of all mothers and babies, March of Dimes came to Forum One with the goal of being the digital leader in providing families across the birthing continuum with comprehensive support at the right time to meet their needs.

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Museum Kansas City North America Wisconsin 83

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

My rituals include: 1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. In early January, I read through the year’s journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of professional fulfillment?

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Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Overall, this work has helped to empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience, and amplify their impact. Their work includes research, education for families and health professionals, support for families directly affected by the maternal health crisis, and advocacy.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. A way that can be more fair, improve the institution of philanthropy, and deliver a shared and flexible understanding of impact.

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Socialbrite

MARCH 8, 2020

Students go to Shanti Bhavan at no cost and are given nutritious foods, shelter, education, medical care, clothing, and emotional and mental support. Truthout portrays itself as a form of journalism seeking justice. The organization relies on its audiences and contributions from foundations that are committed to its work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Journalism News and Information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , co-authored with Aliza Sherman, we lay out the symptoms and causes of burnout and the remedies through deliberate self-care. I logged my sleep hours, but I also kept a journal to record my mood, ability to concentrate and personal productivity.

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Data Personal Support Exercise 125

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. At end of the year, I read through the journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of personal and professional fulfillment? Year in Review.

Professional 114

Professional Build Journal Facilitation 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. In early January, I read through the journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of personal and professional fulfillment? Year in Review.

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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. Measure and share impact. There is no “one size fits all” strategy, but all collaboration is rooted in trusted relationships.

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Collaboration Los Angeles Strategy Indiana 98

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 26, 2013

So how do you intertwine data in the proposal so that it supports and amplifies your cause rather than obfuscate it? From a recognized, reputable source - a federal agency, well respected research group such as Annie Casey Foundation , or peer journal. Start with the need and then find data to support your argument.

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Data Childhood Impact Proposal 73

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 25, 2019

Aaron Hurst , founder of the Taproot Foundation, notes that skilled volunteers are essential to helping nonprofits become self-sustaining and they help the nonprofit put forth the biggest impact in the communities they serve. For this reason, skilled volunteers are highly valuable - and as such managing them effectively is essential.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

All of those wishes have a positive impact on young patients, their families, and care teams. A 2018 study in the journal Pediatric Research found that patients who received a wish were significantly less likely to visit an ER or have an unplanned hospital admission than those who did not. .

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 2009, Clay Shirkey predicted , “For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases.” Knight Foundation ; Sharon Pian Chan, Director of Journalist Initiatives, the Seattle Times ; and Joe Neel, Deputy Supervising Editor, NPR. According to the 2013 Foundation Center report , U.S. and James L.

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Media Seattle Journal Bangladesh 100

VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In fact, 85% of nonprofits report increases in volunteer interest and 95% of individuals report that they will be at least as involved or do more to support their community once the pandemic passes. Know your own Engagement and Impact. For tips on making the case, check out this guide from The Leighty Foundation. Make the Case.

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Organization Volunteer Virtual Articulate 98

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 5, 2022

Donors can avoid capital gains taxes by donating cryptocurrency while simultaneously supporting a cause they care about. With a DAF established at a public charity like a community foundation, the donor can contribute cryptocurrency to the fund tax-free and direct grants to any nonprofit organization.

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Argentina Nonprofit Digital Storytelling 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2012

But two sessions at the GEO conference clearly showed how smart funders are combining the two for maximum impact. Are funders realizing that support for advocacy needs to be part of any comprehensive effort to improve the lives of families and communities? Often, it is essential that both approaches be supported to maximize impact.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 30, 2021

These assumptions can carry serious consequences in organizations managing large amounts of personally identifiable information (PII), such as hospital foundations, even if they are not directly responsible for sourcing the patient information. We published a blog last month on how security impacts the nonprofit sector. Read More ».

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Data Blackbaud Industry Application 96

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2019

Rusty Morgen Stahl, in an article examining research on nonprofit hiring strategies, wrote for The Foundation Review, “It is reasonable to ask what has been done to tackle the talent challenge. Executive search firms are costly but can positively impact ROI for the organization if the ideal candidate is recruited and selected for the role.

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Effective Retention Illinois Technique 72

NTEN

APRIL 10, 2014

To recognize the tremendous work of volunteers that support the nonprofit sector, we’ll be publishing a blog post every day this week to celebrate their contributions. Thank you for your ongoing support and effort to make nonprofit technology accessible to a wider audience! This week is National Volunteer Week !

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Through multiple examples of how individual initiatives can have impact, Gail reminds us that everyone of us can contribute to achieving these goals. These stories and narratives about the major social issues of our time can have an incredible impact on our beliefs around change and our motivation to make it happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been designing curriculum and materials and facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. It’s a pilot project supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development.

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Skills Build Journal Leadership 50

sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The ‘unprecedented year’ may be why foundations were so busy in 2020 and beyond, but it doesn’t change the fact that they were busy. Both giving to foundations and grantmaking grew – giving by almost 18% since 2018 and grantmaking by 17% over 2019. Giving by foundations reached an all-time high in 2020.

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Integration Foundation Data Business 84

NTEN

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation. The grant will support NTEN's work to educate technology leaders about the evolving role of technology in nonprofit work, and beyond that, to produce research and training on cloud technologies and data management, visualization, and collaboration. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Long-time NTEN member and supporter, Atomic Mobile , recently reached a big milestone of 200 clients on the new TapFunder mobile donation platform - check it out ! who was recently named a "Top 100 Workplace 2013" by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the John S.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation. The grant will support NTEN's work to educate technology leaders about the evolving role of technology in nonprofit work, and beyond that, to produce research and training on cloud technologies and data management, visualization, and collaboration. million grant from the Google Inc.

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NTEN Adopt Google Grant 100

Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

A lot of helpful and insightful digital storytelling advice was shared; below are some of the highlights: India: NASSCOM Foundation, TechSoup Global partner, led the way with How to Create High Impact Stories. Participants advised understanding your audience and sharing the stories behind your program stats to make an impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Charity and government support remain crucial but are insufficient to address the magnitude of the task at hand. 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.

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Model Fund Social United States 53

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Our support of groups advancing LGBTI rights is opening up new opportunities for helping many more such groups around the world. We’re honored to support the process towards justice and accountability at this critical time in Guatemala’s history. We’re deeply grateful for this strong support of our work.

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