Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency is a new GrantCraft guide released in collaboration with Glasspockets from the Foundation Center. The report explores how transparency can strengthen credibility, improve grantee relationships, facilitate greater collaboration, increase public trust, reduce duplication of effort, and build communities of shared learning. This very practical report which includes an infographic summarizing research conducted on Foundation's transparency … [Read more...]
Conan O’Brien: Stop Talking About Red Hats & Do A Monologue About Charitable Giving
I think Conan should join the #GivingTuesday movement and get more followers. Sign my petition to ask Conan to do a monologue about #GivingTuesday. On Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Conan poked fun at me because I have more LinkedIn followers than him. He joked that my red hat is the key to my success – it was a funny monologue, but I am offering Conan a better way to increase his LinkedIn followers than photoshopping a red hat on his profile. I gained influence on LinkedIn by helping … [Read more...]
#GivingTuesday: How Sharing Best Practices Is Building A Global Philanthropic Movement
GivingTuesday, a day of giving at the start of the annual holiday season that celebrates and encourages charitable activities that support nonprofit organizations, will take place exactly 28 days or four more Tuesdays from today. GivingTuesday is building on the success of its first year -- moving from an grassroots-style event organized on a short time schedule to a global charity movement. Here's some indicators of the movement's growing success: Many Partners: GivingTuesday does not … [Read more...]
Guest Post: Celebrating Beth's Five Years As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation
Click to See Larger Image and Scroll Note from Beth: Yesterday, I was the honored guest at a Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation to celebrate the work that I have done over the last five years as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It was wonderful to see colleagues in the room and online, reflect on the work, and talk about next steps. Kathy Reich, Director of Organizational Effectiveness Grantmaking at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, write up this … [Read more...]
You Are Invited: Packard Foundation Hosting Google Hangout on Oct 29th at 3 PM PST to Celebrate My 4 Years As Visiting Scholar
This tweet was sent a Packard Foundation board meeting four years ago. By today's standards, it isn't earth shattering. But, this was back in 2009 in the days when you mentioned Twitter and people would look at you with a puzzling expression or say sarcastically, "Isn't that where people share what their cat ate for breakfast?" It was part of a presentation I gave to the board about how networks were changing the way nonprofits were doing their social change and an advanced preview of book, … [Read more...]
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