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August 12, 2013
“We have staff whose title is Community Animation. Their job is to get to know what you are working on and to weave connections…” … Eli Malinsky is Executive Director, New York City of the Centre For Social Innovation. We interviewed Eli at the newly opened New York City location for insight into the business […]
August 6, 2013
Let’s get straight to it: Nonprofits and foundations are in business to advance their missions. In the social sector, nonprofits’ and foundations’ missions sum up to making lives better. Even with the nascent convergence of for-profit and nonprofit entities to operate for “good,” the social sector will still be judged more heavily on how well […]
August 5, 2013
Coffee, capital. (Let’s just call both of them FUEL, with a third metaphor in the image attached here, for good measure.) Anne Sherman, Vice President, Nonprofit Strategy at Growth Philanthropy Network, makes the case for actively creating a marketplace that can properly deliver fuel for the social sector – the kind of capital that can […]
August 1, 2013
We close the current theme (fundraising) with a look at community foundations and the value propositions that drive their ability to operate and raise funds. Lori Larson, senior director of GuideStar DonorEdge, a technology and knowledge platform that enables community foundations to encourage increased charitable giving and to promote awareness of local needs and issues […]
July 30, 2013
A brief note on the the state of corporate giving from Carmen Perez, Senior Research Analyst, Global Valuation, CECP. Carmen’s discussion of trends and of CECP’s recently released measurement guide complements the wider movement in the social sector toward finding the building block critera that will allow for deeper comparisons of global entities working for […]
July 25, 2013
As we noted in an early post by Beth Kanter (Doing The Math Ourselves), upgrading the information infrastructure in the social sector depends heavily upon building the proper skill sets in-house. Today’s comment highlights the role of foundations in supporting that professional development. Bahia Ramos, Director/Community Foundations for Knight Foundation, offers insight on effective fundraising […]
July 24, 2013
Born out of 1950’s moon shots, our modern tech identity is understandably replete with technology as the wonderful, sole solution, followed by success, for sure, but also by a bunch of Frankenstein’s monsters, which we then try to fix with more technology. We knew the folly of this back then; or, at least Rod Serling […]
Bathing in social media, we might just be tempted to think we know it. There are a lot of folks out there doing amazing things with it, but the fact is, the curve is still steep. We’re learning a lot, every day. Further, the numbers and the noise lessen considerably as you try to find […]
July 16, 2013
A simple dinner for two with great conversation and an elephant under the table… In our previous series, Evaluation, we touched on the structure of capital in the social sector. Melinda Tuan, in A Listening Tour, A Call To Action, argued that “the fundamental problem underlying… capacity constraints is how capital flows in the nonprofit […]
July 15, 2013
It is impossible to reach your fundraising potential today without a timely consciousness of market dynamics followed by an agenda to gain targeted awareness and relationships. Judy Levine, VP of Marketing & Engagement for Salesforce.com Foundation, walks us through the current landscape. …
