Twenty-five Tips for Evaluating (and Writing) Successful Technology Grant Proposals
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Publication date:
11/2012
This guide by Jonathan Peizer, president of Internaut Consulting, provides tips for evaluating technology grant proposals.
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Partnering with Native Communities
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Publication date:
11/2012
This online report highlights work by key nonprofit organizations working in Tribal communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. Published in 2012 by The Paul G. Allen Foundation.
The Power of Learning: How Learning Communities Amplify the Work of Nonprofits and Grantmakers: CMF Peer Action Learning Network Case Study
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Publication date:
11/2012
This case study of the Council of Michigan Foundations' Peer Action Learning Network (PALN) is part of a report from New York University's Wagner Research Center for Leadership in Action. It explores the power of learning communities to build connections and knowledge to increase organizations’ community impact.
Learn Foundation Law
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Publication date:
10/2012
The legal staff at the Packard Foundation, Gates Foundation, Hewlett Foundation and Moore Foundation developed this free, first-of-its-kind resource, which covers the basic legal rules around what staff are allowed to fund and engage in at a private foundation.
Strategic Co-funding: An Approach for Expanded Impact
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10/2012
Although co-funding is not a new idea recent efforts have contributed to a more sophisticated understanding of how to ensure that co-funding arrangements have the desired impact. This report is part of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations' Scaling What Works initiative.
What Funders Need to Know: How Do Teachers Become Great?
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Publication date:
10/2012
What factors should you consider if you want your grant investment to have the greatest impact on student academic success? Here's what funders need to know.
Community Capacity Working Glossary
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Publication date:
09/2012
A working glossary of terms to help shape a common language for work in Community Capacity. This glossary is intended to help promote philanthropy's roles in building community capacity by defining core concepts and closely related terms.
Grantees' Limited Engagement with Foundations' Social Media
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Publication date:
08/2012
This report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy collects survey responses from more than 6,000 grantees about their experiences with foundations' social media. CEP found that the majority of foundations use social media tools in their work, but very few grantees use social media from their foundation funders or their funders’ staff; those that do find those resources less helpful than other communication resources for learning about the foundation.
Lessons Learned for Funders of Advocacy Efforts & Evaluations
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Publication date:
08/2012
In this report, the Colorado Trust and Innovation Network chronicle the Trust's strategy for funding advocacy and provide a strategic evaluation for their successes and failures.
Needle-Moving Community Collaboratives: A Promising Approach to Addressing America’s Biggest Challenges
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08/2012
By enlisting all sectors to work together, a new kind of community collaborative is making strides toward tackling powerful social issues in communities. In the report, “Needle-Moving Community Collaboratives: A Promising Approach to Addressing America’s Biggest Challenges,” members of the White House Council for Community Solutions and Bridgespan took a look at how exemplary collaboratives made needle-moving progress (10-percent progress in a community-wide metric) on key challenges facing their communities.
Building Stronger Nonprofits Through Better Financial Management
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Publication date:
06/2012
This report from the Wallace Foundation that recommends that funders boost payments for overhead, reduce burdens and invest in building nonprofits' financial management capabilities in order to help grantees build strength through better financial management.
Evaluating the Charitable Deduction and Proposed Reforms
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06/2012
This report from the Urban Institute and the Tax Policy Center discusses how various reform proposals could have relatively similar impacts on the federal budget but quite different effects on nonprofits and the tax rules affecting them.
How Can Grantmakers Focus on Nonprofit Talent to Grow Impact?
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06/2012
How Can Grantmakers Focus on Nonprofit Talent to Grow Impact? explores the importance of supporting nonprofit talent development, the unique talent needs of nonprofits seeking to grow their impact and how grantmakers can help.
PRI Primer
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Publication date:
06/2012
This how-to primer from Mission Investors Exchange is a comprehensive tool to increase your understanding about making program-related investments (PRIs).
Collaborative Funding for Greater Impact
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Publication date:
05/2012
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations' Collaborative Funding for Greater Impact explains the mechanics of forming and managing a co-funding partnership and offers takeaways for how this experience can apply to other communities.
Scanning the Landscape 2.0
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Publication date:
05/2012
This updated edition of a GrantCraft guide reflects key changes in philanthropy, from the rise of social media to a growing tendency to scan continuously for changes and opportunities.
Sizing Up
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Publication date:
05/2012
This report from the James Irvine Foundation provides advice and examples on best to structure staff to achieve your mission while controlling your operating budget and achieving financial stability.
The Nonprofit Social Media Policy Workbook
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Publication date:
05/2012
Idealware's Nonprofit Social Media Policy Workbook shows how to develop policies and practices for your organization.
Why Family Foundations Lose Their Way
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Publication date:
05/2012
Why Family Foundations Lose Their Way: A Founders' Guide to Long-Term Philanthropic Success discusses dangers and mistakes in establishing and running a family foundation.
Community Capacity Building: Lessons Learned from our Partners
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Publication date:
05/2012
This report highlights three philanthropic efforts to build the capacity of local communities in the West - The Ford Family Foundation’s Ford Institute Leadership Program, the Northwest Area Foundation’s Horizons Program, and the Orton Family Foundation’s Heart and Soul Community Planning Program.