Nov
12
Guest post by Caroline McAndrews, Director of Research & Documentation, Building Movement Project
Figuring
out what data to collect, how to collect it, and how to make sense of
it in order to build impact was the theme of the 90-second poster
presentations from discussion leaders at the Data 360 session. In her
opening, Fay Twersky of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation touched
on one of the biggest challenges in the room – not just collecting
information, but engaging others in using and analyzing it, and
ultimately employing it to make better decisions.
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Jul
16
Guest post by Walter Howell, associate at IS business associate
member, Community Wealth Ventures (CWV). This is the seventh in a series
of posts originally featured on CWV's blog.
With
the Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star game being played tonight, it
pays to remember the immortal words from one of baseball’s most iconic
films, “Field of Dreams”: if you build it, they will come.
Putting his own twist on this famous line, Jim Horan, Executive Director
for the Connecticut Association for Human Services (CAHS), believes
that if you build it, the results will come.
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Jul
11
Strengthening the charitable sector means we have to develop and support new and existing leaders in a variety of ways. Check out these sessions with a focus on leadership at this year’s conference.
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Jul
10
What can be done to ensure very qualified women are treated just the same as very qualified men? Boards of Directors have an important role. Read on in Diana's blog.
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Jun
22
Guest post by Phil Buchanan, president of The Center for Effective Philanthropy
This is the final installment in a series of six blog posts, which were originally featured on the CEP Blog.
Why are we, in the nonprofit sector, putting corporations on a
pedestal? The recent damage caused by the unethical, if not illegal,
practices of many of this country’s largest financial institutions needs
no recounting. Nor does the environmental destruction wrought by a wide
range of companies over the decades.
Yet, as I have discussed on this blog over the past six weeks, many
continue to hype boundary-blurring, beat up on the label “nonprofit,”
advocate the adoption of “business thinking,” and promote corporations
as the solvers of our toughest social problems. All this without
sufficient acknowledgment of the vital role of nonprofits –
organizations that do not have to answer to investors pushing for a
financial return.
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