Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

The Forum, which has been bringing philanthropists as well as political and social sector leaders from around the world to Silicon Valley since 2001, hosted the Presidents of two foundations: Robert Gallucci of the MacArthur Foundation and Reeta Roy of The MasterCard Foundation.

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Education Philanthropy Africa Foundation 164

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Demographics: Foundations and corporate funders will want to know who is benefiting from your nonprofit’s services. Your proposals serve to gain their interest and “buy-in.” Do the necessary market research to learn which foundations—local, regional and national—are funding nonprofits like yours. Do you serve K-12 students?

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Professional Leadership Develop Proposal 70

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

Meyer Memorial Trust is a private foundation in Oregon, USA, that has a pioneering spirit and is always up to something new, different, and meaningful – plus it is quite near to my heart. Meyer Memorial Trust is the largest private foundation in Oregon, established from Fred G. Meyer’s personal estate.

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Oregon Foundation Ideas Award 140

Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s okay to apply for a corporate grant and sponsorship at the same time: Is it okay to make an ask for a sponsorship (say, for an event) from a corporation AND separately to that corporation’s independent charitable foundation? – – Too Greedy?

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Grant Homeless Proposal Foundation 53

.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Welcome every proposal. In this age of unprecedented processing power, why is critical thinking important? The word critical comes from the Greek word kritikos, which means the ability to judge or discern. Don’t waste valuable brain power.

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Skills Collaboration Communication Classroom 221

sgEngage

MAY 13, 2022

In my years as a grantseeker and nonprofit consultant, I’ve waded through dozens of ambiguous foundation websites that make it impossible to know how to get even a foot in the door to be considered for funding. However, when funders proactively model transparency, power awareness, and vulnerability, it can be transformative.

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Relationship Foundation Grant Fund 77

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. Foundation giving increased but only enough for a marginal increase overall. Nonprofits will see a rise in need stemming from people on the margins of the disaster recovery response.

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Social Model Nonprofit Fund 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. Many receive a combination of both. High-Level Requirements.

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Software Guide Award Grant 309

sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

What do your questions or materials say about you, your foundation, or your family? If that funder’s application includes lots of jargon or technical phrases such as, “Tell us about your Theory of Change,” or, “What is your program’s Logic Model?” Could someone, just by looking at your application, get a sense of what your values are?

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Question Application Reflection Philanthropy 82

sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

The Trust Based Philanthropy Project is a five-year funder initiative that addresses inherent power imbalances between foundations and nonprofits. Do the Homework : Oftentimes, nonprofits have to jump through countless hoops just to be invited to submit a proposal. Solicit and Act on Feedback: Philanthropy doesn’t have all the answers.

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Philanthropy Literacy Gift Grant 71

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

And one of the biggest event-driven fundraising models shuttered their doors. Your emotional case for support drives all donor communications, from grant proposals to web copy to fundraising appeals. Nonprofit storytelling is the foundation of every successful marketing and fundraising campaign.

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Trend Storytelling Paypal Mail 59

sgEngage

APRIL 21, 2021

In fact, 800 foundations signed a pledge to adopt more trust-based practices in order to move money more quickly and with fewer restrictions. Do the Homework: Oftentimes, nonprofits have to jump through countless hoops just to be invited to submit a proposal. Solicit and Act on Feedback: Philanthropy doesn’t have all the answers.

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Adopt Philanthropy Tips Script 72

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

Nonprofits are reimagining funding models and will have to think innovatively to ensure their mission continues. Why pursue a social enterprise model? There are seven steps in Larson’s proposed venture development process that takes six months-year, and at least 200 hours of work to complete, but ensures a business plan result.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. However, in the push towards impact, philanthropy has adopted a laundry list of activities—landscape scans, focus groups, case studies, logic models—to help in figuring out what is important to know to “do good” better. Fast forward to today….

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 67

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 14, 2022

This foundational knowledge may at times feel simple, but it’s best to make sure you have a rock solid understanding of nonprofit consulting practices before entering into conversations with potential partners. For your website design consultant, make sure to research each candidate’s services and business model.

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Consultant Web Proposal Nonprofit 52

Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

The foundation of this skill set is the ability to give and receive feedback. Are projects being designed in such a way that those who contribute to defining the issues are also responsible for the proposed solutions? Is there a process to ensure everyone has access and opportunity for their voice to be heard?

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Activities Active Activism Organization 97

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

There is a saying among fundraising professionals that proposal writing is both an art and a science. 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.

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Grant Effective Tips Proposal 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Monitor Group senior consultant Heather Grant McLeod made the fascinating point that many of these established organizations began life as networks but adopted centralized organizational structures to bend to their funders or funding model. Adene Sacks is a Senior Program Officer at the Jim Joseph Foundation. Adene Sacks.

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Network San Francisco Organization Develop 89

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

If you give us a logic model or a theory of change format, we work hard to not only embrace your words but to put them in the right rows and columns. For their part, foundations have tuned in well to nonprofits’ focus on being mission-driven. In my experience, two dominant frames are now shared by foundations and nonprofits.

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Language Foundation Proposal Nonprofit 20

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 26, 2013

This is part two of Carolyn Owen''s series on gathering and using data for grant proposals. So how do you intertwine data in the proposal so that it supports and amplifies your cause rather than obfuscate it? Are you looking to advance and solidify your grant proposal writing skills? the intervention you are proposing.

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Data Childhood Impact Proposal 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Author David La Piana. One of the things that I love at the Packard Foundation is the learning culture. He shared a few case studies, including some examples of nonprofits with “broken business models” because of today’s connected world. Some reflections from David here ).

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Review Business Nonprofit Measure 106

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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Effective Program Work Review 96

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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Culture Public Learning Reflection 91

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

And, support from the Open Society Foundation made this event possible! With generous support for new technology developments from the MacArthur Foundation, we now have the ability to assess and prioritize needs, enhance existing features, build new functionality and develop client and server infrastructure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2012

This early portion of the Skoll conference is for Skoll awardee staff, the Skoll Foundation and key resources to grow the field. But, many of the others were eager to think through the challenges of adapting this model to their organization, and how it might work well. How is it structured?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

Note From Beth: Last month, I did a webinar for the SalesForce Foundation on measuring social media. The Foundation is offering webinars and publishing white papers for nonprofits. This feature allowed me to know -at any given moment-how many proposals I had out and how many I might have next month. This was (by far!)

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Relationship Donor Track Gift 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

That’s where she got the idea that food banks should be using canvas tote bags to distribute foods and she tweeted her idea. To her surprise, the Pittsburgh Foundation was following her live tweets. So, I contacted the Food Bank and proposed we collaborate. I had lots of positive feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I’ve been leading this work at Google.org for five years and was previously at The Bridgespan Group where I helped nonprofits and foundations address strategic questions. It is not necessary to use Google tools in order to create an AI project or create an eligible AI Impact Challenge proposal.

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Google Challenge Interview Impact 84

The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? I have used it to help me write appeals, emails, thank you letters, and draft some 1 and 2-page proposals. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai

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Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In a recent blog post , Ed explains why growth markets are key to this proposed merger of two of the publishing world’s biggest players. The Lex Mundi Foundation is a nonprofit affiliate of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading association of independent law firms.

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Spain Language America Law 151

Care2

APRIL 15, 2013

In nominating Jamie Biggar for the prize, a distinguished panel of nonprofit sector judges said: "Jamie Biggar is founder and executive director of Leadnow ( www.leadnow.ca ), the Canadian cross-issue advocacy organization built on the MoveOn / 38 Degrees / Avaaz organizing model.

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Award Impact Organization Minneapolis 70

Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

In the last six years, Community Boost_r , ReStart Challenges , and Things Camp have used an open community challenge model. With these open models, one of the challenges was getting participants to clearly define problems that could be solved with technology. Defining and Refining the Problem to Optimize Solving It with Tech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. Community Foundations were thrown into crisis mode as the amount of time the server was down went from minutes into hours.

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America San Antonio Local Philanthropy 50

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, if a nonprofit organization operates health clinics inside public schools, the Advisory Board might be made up of pediatricians, family physicians, and nurses, who could advise the Governing Board on how the model could best operate to meet families’ needs. Write a description of the proposed Advisory Board’s purpose.

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Roles Nonprofit Government Advice 111

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

posted by Sheryl Keeme , Executive Director, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech. Today, she is proud to lead the Arizona Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, an organization new to Annual Funds. Not everything translates from for-profit to nonprofit. Get another!

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Mentoring Work Phoenix Nonprofit 70

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Regardless of whether it’s new technology, a new staffing model, or even a small adjustment to a process, adoption and success can hinge on keeping a focus on the human element of the change. This framework consists of 1) Focusing on the right people, 2) Visiting with the intent to fundraise, and 3) Using proposals to plan the work. .

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Each role has specific responsibilities, and training helps set a foundation for each worker’s confidence. Peer-to-peer mentorship can help new team members acclimate to the organization faster and have a role model in a similar role to them. Lack of leadership support. Mentorship programs. Fitness and mindfulness challenges.

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