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3 Design Thinking Facilitation Resources for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Almost four years ago, I wrote my experience as a participant n a design-thinking lab to give input on a digital strategy for a philanthropy. 3 Design Thinking Facilitation Resources for Nonprofits and Philanthropy. I’ve had the opportunity to take these workshops a few years back and learned a lot. Luma Institute.

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Having Greater Impact Through Community and Collaboration

Connection Cafe

After connecting with grantmakers, nonprofits, corporations, partners and independent consultants—more than 5,000 interactions over a two year span—we learned that one of the biggest hurdles in solving this need for the industry was the lack of a common lexicon.

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3 Reasons to Love Outcomes Measurement

Tech Soup

As a corporate funder turned consultant, I've spent the last decade helping funders make the shift from philanthropy to social, or impact, investing. Central to this new solution that provides a unified experience for funders and nonprofits is its sector-sourced outcomes measurement taxonomy. What Is Impact Investing?

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Lessons from IGS16: The How-To’s for Applying the SDGs to Grantmaking

Connection Cafe

CAF America launched the IGS last year around the shared belief that international philanthropy can, and should be, a powerful force in our effort to address the world’s most pressing issues. This was a very timely panel as we have all felt the momentum build behind philanthropy for the SDGs. Key takeaways.

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Revitalizing Global Partnerships to Further the Sustainable Development Goals

Connection Cafe

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present us with a great opportunity to address the world’s most pressing issues and, as we are quickly learning, we need to work together across sectors and borders to strengthen our means of implementation. Can I see in one place who is doing what where and what lessons they have learned?

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ .

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

These categories build off of the extensive taxonomy Candid has developed over years—based on data from over 17 million grants—which we have jointly adapted to capture work related to human rights. We use a population lens to ask whose rights a given grant aims to protect or advance. Even in the U.S., There are two driving factors.

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