sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

Those questions can be in an application, in conversations with program officers, or during the deliberation meetings with your board. Or cover it during a conversation instead of the application. What do your questions or materials say about you, your foundation, or your family? Take it out. Streamline your process!

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Question Application Reflection Philanthropy 94

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

The NonProfit Times

JULY 17, 2024

Conversely, among the leaders who said they did not achieve their revenue goals, only 22% had added to their development staffs. Just over one in five respondents (22%) have augmented their writing efforts, such as grant proposals, annual appeals, ad creation, social media posts through the use of AI.

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Stream Gift Data South Carolina 64

Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI. Those in positions of power can invite traditionally excluded people to the table, but to sustain meaningful dialogue, everyone must have some skills to hold these important and often difficult conversations.

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Activities Activism Active Organization 97

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….

Knowledge 76

Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 76

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

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

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

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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Global Group Thailand Burma 157

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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San Antonio America Local Philanthropy 50

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I bike to work and at least once every couple of weeks it’s Lindsay having an awesome conversation with somebody that speeds up that commute for me. Really cool conversations, lots of different topics, social justice, criminal justice, I think you talked about last week. . – [Steven] Yeah. – [Lindsay] Yup.

People 79

People Community Video Podcast 79

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

Los Angeles 130

Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

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

If you were unable to attend the conference, we hope you can use the summary below to inspire thoughtful conversations at your institution and help in your planning for the new year. . . 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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Virtual Blackbaud Wisconsin Award 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model?

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Comment Social Media Jordan Cancer 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model?

Social Media 79

Social Media Cancer Jordan Kiva 79

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to research by the Congressional Management Foundation, nearly half of congressional staff believe that “most advocacy campaigns of identical form messages are sent without the constituent’s knowledge or approval.”. Enter Susan. Step 1: Our Internal Partnership. This includes grassroots, field, media, policy and lobbying.

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Offline Campaign Channel Cancer 44

Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. OK, these are hard problems to solve.

Global 50

Global Data Seattle Finland 50

NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? It was organized by Ed Schipul. What is it?

Social Media 67

Social Media Nonprofit Jordan Cancer 67

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. Communities are flexible. Principles.

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Library Model Adopt Community 241

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. The proposal to Metlife was all video. How and why did Object Stories come to be?

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Story Interview Museum Audio 53

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. The proposal to Metlife was all video. We had planned on having it be video.

Museum 43

Museum Story Project Design 43

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

There is a big difference between a federal application and then a private corporate foundation application. And if you can develop those relationships with funders, if you can develop great core content, if you can leverage materials for different kinds of proposals, then that is really going to set you up for success. .

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Grant Build Video Strategy 117

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 24th Annual Conference for Institutionally Related Foundations.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

This month's Net2 Think Tank question is: How do real-world (offline) events fit into social media conversations and campaigns ? My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. Courtesy of Joe Solomon. Then check out.

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Offline Community Online Organization 88

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Director of foundation relations, so you’ll probably know a few things we talk about today. Looking for foundations that fund similar organizations means that those foundations might be well aligned for you as well. Foundation Directory Online, which I’ve listed as number one, is our very favorite. Fantastic.

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 76

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? So, if your program has an evidence-based model, and I’m not just saying. Grant proposals. So perhaps we’ll see some of you. Why is it important?”

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Measure Report Process Impact 81

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And that’s what I’m going to do today, I’m going to try to cover a lot of ground but leave some time at the end for Q&A and conversation and all of that. So thank you for bearing with me so far on this conversation. That what makes for a great partner is not necessarily understood in a proposal. Sarah: Yes.

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Build Video New York City Communication 124

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The community should enable students to engage in conversations related to functional areas and regions of interest. On a regular basis, USAID would leverage the community to run contests where students can propose new ideas for complex international development problems, particularly those that engage directly with young adults.

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Ideas Share Disaster Government 46

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

It was an incredible testament to the commitment and dedication of the nonprofit sector to put words to action - identifying needs and proposing concrete solutions. Looking for a business process/model for moving tech to each department. It’s a one-hour conversation with 3-4 people. You can learn about the three winners here.

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Ideas North Carolina Map Children 94

Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Although many platform companies such as Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb have claimed credit for advancing a sharing economy—the preferred term for which is now solidarity economy —model, they don’t in fact fall under that category, because they seek to extract maximum profits from their operations.

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Platform Technology United States New York 140

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. It is a completely different conversation. It is a mobile market.

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Green Interview Oakland Job 41