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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

In grant proposals and pitches, they want you to predict the future and show how, with your eloquent promises and plans for impact, you can best provide them the assurance of certainty. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. Next, funders stunt risk with their beloved wait-and-see approach.

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The AI Writing Prompt Formula and Prompt Ideas

Whole Whale

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

When we momentarily set aside the many foundation models or toolkits for addressing a particular task, we start to remember that the essence of knowledge is shared meaning making—how we, together, come to understand and engage in community, in the world around us, and in change itself. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.

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How to Form and Use an Advisory Board for Your Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

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. Writing a story for their company newsletter about the organization.

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Mastering Employee Engagement: Best Practices + 13 Ideas

Nonprofits Source

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. 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. Create employee engagement programs. Mentorship programs.

Ideas 52
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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Inside the Design of an Amazing Museum Project to Capture People's Stories

Museum 2.0

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. How and why did Object Stories come to be? We imagined an cart at the farmer’s markets where people could record stories. The proposal to Metlife was all video. So what did you do next?

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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. Production Network: This type of network inspires and encourages collective action by members to create innovative practices, public-policy proposals, and other tools or products that lead to social impact. Generative Social-Impact Network.

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