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Great reads from around the web on March 2nd

Amy Sample Ward

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation. asks Tom Webster over at BrandSavant. Nope, it’s not possible."

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Offer to write letters of intent or grant requests for the organization and possibly even submit them to foundations or companies. Help the organization by researching and compiling information on foundations in your area or state. Build a relationship with the staff and board of your local community foundation. Prospecting.

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Social Media and Governance: Reflections from BoardSource

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance. We thought this would be an easy part of the book to write – all we’d have to do is find examples of how boards online, opening up decision-making to outside influences. Board source. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

.orgSource

It’s the style of the CEO and executive team that drives the governance and the culture. You can have the best governance model, but with the wrong people on the team, you won’t be successful.” The Myers-Briggs Foundation offers this perspective on the process. “The digital age is all about leadership.

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Planning to Win: A Framework and Free Toolkit for Nonprofit Campaign Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The site and toolkit was created through a partnership and support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and input from campaign experts. Choose Your Influence Strategy. Planning to Win framework organizes the process of campaign planning into six stages. Evaluate the Campaign Climate. Chart the Course. Message for Impact.

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Organizing across generations for civil rights 

Candid

As People For the American Way Foundation wrestles with these same questions, we’ll share insights from some recent successes. The campaign sought to influence millions of Black men to cast a ballot, but more importantly, understand what strategies influence voting behavior most.

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Darren Walker To Leave Ford Foundation

The NonProfit Times

Ford Foundation President Darren Walker announced he will step down from the position by the end of 2025, ending a 12-year run at the helm of the $16.8 billion foundation. Walker’s innovations include a first-ever $1 billion social bond by a foundation to bolster and strengthen nonprofits during the Covid-19 crisis.