Whole Whale

JANUARY 17, 2024

(Special thanks to Eric Antebi from the California Health Care Foundation for this one Bigger is Different The high-level lesson across these stories is that bigger is different and that data/plastic from the past doesn’t just disappear. According to the World Wildlife Foundation, the average American consumes a credit card a week.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

The Awesome Foundation. New Earth Foundation. Cornell Douglas Foundation. International Game Technology. Kellogg Foundation. Whole Kids Foundation. Emeril Lagasse Foundation. The Barney Family Foundation. Change Happens Foundation. The Harry Chapin Foundation. Burkle Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place.

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

The Bias Issue AI systems like LLMs are trained on vast datasets of text, primarily from the internet. This training data reflects the racial biases, stereotypes, and disproportionate perspectives of the world where the data comes from. Have frank internal conversations about priorities.

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Candid

MARCH 11, 2024

In addition, between 2016 and 2022, steadily increasing shares of both BIPOC and white respondents reported receiving peer support, training on staff management and supervision, coaching and executive coaching, and internal mentorship. What about positive factors such as training, mentorship, and other supports?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Those conversations led to the Washington Area Women’s Foundation ’s (WAWF) report Thrive As They Lead: Advancing the Infrastructure to Support Black Women Leaders in the D.C. Infrastructure supports could include cohort leadership development programs, retreats, learning institutes, trainings, convenings, and a general fund, they said.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 29, 2022

We promise that this year’s Summit will help you craft better relationships with the people who care about your cause and build a stronger foundation to thrive, no matter what’s next. The Future of Funding: Expanding Partnerships with Foundations. Join us on May 17 and 18 for the second annual Nonprofit Summit. Don’t believe me?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 10, 2022

This two-day global event will help you craft better relationships with the people who care about your cause, leverage data to maximize your impact, and build a stronger foundation to thrive no matter what comes next. Reason #2: Dynamic Speakers & International Panels. Reason #3: Learning Labs & Hands-On Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

We wrote a paper about Nonprofits and Machine Learning for NTEN and wrapping a research paper for the Gates Foundation on how these new technologies might scale generosity and the challenges. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. I wrote guest posts for many nonprofit publications and blogs.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2021

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is making a bold and public move to use Candid’s GuideStar profile and demographic survey to track data from grant applicants and recipients. Brad: Nancy, what a pleasure to talk with you today about this groundbreaking partnership between the Packard Foundation and Candid.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

At a recent webinar hosted by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Jennifer Chheang of The California Endowment (TCE) and Allie VanHeast of the Kalamazoo Community Foundation (KCF) shared how they are using Demographics via Candid in practice to better understand alignment with institutional goals and measure their progress.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. If your nonprofit is seeking funding, it’s critical to identify the foundations whose interests and funding priorities align with your own. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on. Mellon Foundation.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

Public speaking and presentation skills can help you craft better written and verbal communications, whether you’re engaging with your team internally or connecting with an external audience. . Internal benefits. Improving internal communication. . Internally, you likely engage with the following team members regularly: .

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Achieve

MAY 7, 2024

According to Foundation Group , effective bookkeeping comes with the following benefits for your organization: With effective bookkeeping data management , your nonprofit can make informed budgeting decisions based on key financial insights. Include coding or tagging instructions in team training so that this process is standardized, too.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

The International Society for Third Sector Research published a recent paper that summarizes why nonprofit leaders must use technology to connect with stakeholders in the emerging digital, civil society. Organizations should build infrastructure and staffing around internal expertise with AI. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. million alumni.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2022

Grantmaking is the heart of the private foundation industry and is often the largest expenditure for a foundation. Due diligence has the potential to provide insight into critical attributes and the level of alignment between the foundation’s mission and the goals of the grantee. Request a list of Board members from the grantee.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This person will take the lead in convening internal stakeholders, making plans, testing the waters internally, setting parameters, and liaising with foundation leadership. It is critical for you, foundation leadership, and community participants to be clear who is making which decisions.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Reviewing Internal Processes for Equity The first place to start is internally with your organization’s operations. Yes, training on empathy and recognizing bias is important, but it needs to go deeper. How are you recruiting staff and volunteers?

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EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

Five questions you can ask your board to help build momentum and appetite for a tech shift: When you’re deciding how to approach your board about a change in technology, you can start by asking some or all of these five questions: What do you see as our biggest limiting factors (internally) for reaching our goals?

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John Kenyon

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Step 2: Build Trust & Craft Rules Trust is the foundation of nonprofits. Creating a learning loop of actively learning by experimenting helps build internal experience and exposes what works best for the nonprofit. Training and support is essential to help ease worries and to get people excited about AI.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Citi, and others announced commitments in support of climate action on the second day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) being held in Glasgow, Scotland. Opportunity International, Oikocredit invest $100 million in education. November 4, 2021. November 4, 2021.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Tech Planning Success at Grand Rapids Community Foundation. Ann Puckett, IT manager for the Grand Rapids Community Foundation, recently completed a technology assessment using Idealware's tactical technology planning on-demand course as a guide. By doing so, the foundation hoped to increase staff satisfaction and productivity.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2024

Often, the reason a foundation declines a grant has nothing to do with you. Funders seek a return on investment With so many applicants and limited funding to go around, foundations view a grant as an investment. It’s not uncommon for nonprofits to struggle with securing funding despite the strength of their programs.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. Foundations, nonprofits, businesses and corporations, clubs, and professional and trade associations are all examples of private grant sources. Foundations.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2023

In order to build those positive relationships, MENTOR recruits and provides training resources to potential mentors and links the right mentors to mentees across the nation. January 11 – I Am A Mentor Day January 16 – Dr. MLK Day of Service January 17 – International Mentoring Day January 26 – Thank Your Mentor Day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Doing everything , lacking the discipline to say no, and trying to be all things to all customers, both internally and externally. Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. There’s no better time than now to read this book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At this year’s Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called “Digital Strategies for Community Foundations.” This takes patience.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It’s being re-published today in honor of International Day of the Girl to highlight Malala Fund’s important work around education for girls. Nayla’s organization, Lebanese Alternative Learning (LAL), will also develop teacher training courses on the platform aimed at strengthening remote instruction. About the Authors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

NTEN is incredibly excited to announce our new partnership with the Daum Foundation ! The Daum Foundation is a registered nonprofit organization in Korea, with a mission to empower the next generation (“daum” means “next” in Korean) through the use of media and technology for creative and diverse ways of life.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Demographics: Foundations and corporate funders will want to know who is benefiting from your nonprofit’s services. Timely submissions and consistent, personalized stewardship signal to internal and external constituents that your nonprofit is ready to effectively participate in the fundraising arena. Do you serve K-12 students?

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Candid

MAY 24, 2023

He sought out support from the Bunbury Fund at the Princeton Area Community Foundation knowing that capacity-building was their jam. Drew Dyson is a minister by training. Drew was a new CEO arriving at PSRC a year before the world shut down. He knew that building his own capacity as a leader would grow his organization’s capacity.

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Candid

MAY 24, 2023

He sought out support from the Bunbury Fund at the Princeton Area Community Foundation knowing that capacity-building was their jam. Drew Dyson is a minister by training. Drew was a new CEO arriving at PSRC a year before the world shut down. He knew that building his own capacity as a leader would grow his organization’s capacity.

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Donor Classes New Jersey Leadership 105

Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 24, 2022

with a million-dollar salary as Director of 20th Century Fox International. CCF has transformed the lives of thousands of children by delivering high-quality education, leadership training, and support programs. Salesforce became the partner of choice thanks to its unmatched technological solutions and a foundation of shared values.

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Bonterra

AUGUST 15, 2022

Read their story on Covenant House International and Barker & Scott Impact Powered by: Donor Engagement Nonprofits Digital communications & marketing Fundraising ideas Project QUEST This interview with Project Quest chief program officer Lelani Mercado discusses why they invested in a case management solution and the impact it made.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Philanthropy is an effort an individual or organization undertakes based on an altruistic desire to improve human welfare, and wealthy individuals sometimes establish private foundations to facilitate their philanthropic efforts. In the U.S., Check here for the latest information. Questions about the day can be sent to AFP here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Environmental Defense Fund or EDF is a grantee organization and also attended the Packard Foundation's recent Network Effectiveness Convening by the Monitor Institute in Washington, DC in May. Blurring the lines between internal/external: What does modeling transparent behavior actually look like on the ground?

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