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

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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. Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will.

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In Defense of Community Managers

Amy Sample Ward

There are definitely times when community building and even campaigning or organizing feels just like that! I’m excited to see the proposal gain momentum and hopefully move to implementation soon! As such, Community Managers play to a core element for any shared space: modeling behavior. In Defense of Community Managers.

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4 Secrets to a Successful Fundraising Portfolio Review

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If you have predictive modeling results , that is the best place to start (and if you don’t, put it on the wish list for next year!). Can you use this insight to better line up these changes with your organizations needs to inspire a proposal that’s more meaningful? . Dig into the data. . Set yourself up for success. .

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The Proposals A. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR). The African Union Proposed Treaty (“AUPT”).

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New on SSIR: Innovating at the Speed of Communities

Amy Sample Ward

. “Innovating at the speed of communities&# is a big goal, but something organizations and civic institutions can learn a lot from as a model. Communities As A Model. What’s the community-driven model that supports innovating at the speed of communities? Normally, I make sure to clarify definitions when I start.

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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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Social Innovation Camp at MPS09

Amy Sample Ward

So, when you have top-down definition of what you’re interested in and then bottom up creation it doesn’t work. What we are doing when we talent scout isn’t just about creating a pool of projects but about starting relationships. We asked our prototype projects what else they need. That’s a lot of work.

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