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How Hospital Foundations are Building a New Case for Support

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“Why is a hospital foundation getting involved in quality-of-life issues?”. This simple answer is why MHP Foundation is shifting our fundraising focus to the social determinants of health within our community. Our greatest challenge as the MHP Foundation will be informing and motivating donors to this new case for support.

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100 Fundraising Email Subject Lines That Will Get Donors to Open Your Email

Get Fully Funded

You see, if the email doesn’t get opened, you get no donations. Your fundraising email subject line has ONE job: to entice the recipient to open the email. Dismissing the subject line will cost you opens and it will cost you donations. There is a split second when we decide whether or not to open the email. Big mistake.

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The 12 Golden Rules For How To Communicate Effectively

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Remember that thankfulness and appreciation are the two most important values you can share with our employees and teach them to live by: make them the core foundation of your culture. Put others' needs ahead of your own and expect them to respond in kind (a.k.a. selfless leadership," otherwise known as "servant leadership").

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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

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Only 10% of philanthropic foundations have a website to communicate their work. What that statistic means is that for 90% of foundations, the 990-PF is often the only means for communicating their work. Open Data Defined. You might think that the 990 has always been open, so what has changed?

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Innovating for Dramatically More Scale and Social Impact

Top Nonprofits

Steve co-authored a feature article for the Stanford Social Innovation Review on Lean Experimentation in the social sector (Summer 2015) and served as the Senior Advisor to Revolution English, an innovative nonprofit startup that now teaches English to more than one million people in a low-cost, financially self-sustaining way.

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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. It was eye-opening to discover what you don’t notice when you are aware.

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How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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