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Foundation News & Commentary Jan/Feb 2005 Lee Draper |
Where the Money is: Tapping Overlooked Sources of Support for Nonprofits Where will the funding come from to enable nonprofits to serve more people? How can nonprofits find the capital to reorganize for greater efficiency and economies of scale or to invest in new ways to address growing social needs?  |
Foundation News & Commentary Sep/Oct 2004 Allison H. Fine |
Blending the Bottom Line Nonprofits and grantmakers must meet each other halfway to move toward outcomes-focused approaches to collaboration.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Mar/Apr 2005 Lee Draper |
Managing Expectations, Coping With Realities Newcomers to philanthropy often find acclimation difficult. Here, ten interviewees discuss their beginnings and offer recommendations from their experience.  |
AFP eWire April 28, 2008 |
New Study Recommends Ways to Address Flaws in Grant Application and Reporting Nonprofit organizations and foundations alike are beginning to stagger under the weight of a grant application and reporting system that needs fixing.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Sep/Oct 2006 Gwen I. Walden |
What are NPIOs and Why Can't Foundations Succeed Without Them? Nonprofit infrastructure organizations are the frontline capacity builders for grantees.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Sep/Oct 2006 Kathleen P. Enright |
Philanthropy's Greatest Asset Grantmakers' success depends on the performance of nonprofit leaders. Committed people are at the heart of every innovation and every bit of progress the nonprofit sector makes.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Sep/Oct 2005 Lee Draper |
Funder's Little Shop of Horrors Grantees look to funders for support in overcoming entrenched financial and management challenges, but they also want to be acknowledged for their expertise in running organizations, delivering services and relating to their constituencies.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Jul/Aug 2004 Lee Draper |
The Philanthropy Afterlife: What Does A Career in Philanthropy Prepare You For? In this era of diminished assets and administrative budget reductions, a traditional pattern of turnover - coupled with a slower pace of foundation formation - has made the philanthropy job market tighter and far more competitive.  |
Foundation News & Commentary May/Jun 2005 Kathleen P. Enright |
Philanthropy's New Clothes New study results represent the most comprehensive look at how foundations view their own effectiveness to date.  |
Foundation News & Commentary May/Jun 2005 Wing et al. |
Paying for Not Paying for Overhead Many nonprofits are sacrificing organizational infrastructure needs to tell foundations what they want to hear about overhead costs.  |
AFP eWire May 17, 2004 |
Report Reveals What Grantees Value in Foundations A new report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy has identified several key areas that charity grantees most value in the foundations that fund their programs.  |
Searcher February 2004 Hazel Cameron |
The Nonprofit Phenomenon Internet resources for nonprofit organizations  |
Foundation News & Commentary Jan/Feb 2006 Egbert & Hoechstetter |
Mission Possible: Evaluating Advocacy Grants In an effort to more accurately reflect the outcomes of policy-related grants and promote more support for nonprofit advocacy, the Alliance for Justice teamed with The George Gund Foundation and Mosaica to fashion tools for grantmakers that show the effectiveness of nonprofit advocacy work.  |
AFP eWire April 20, 2010 |
2009 Saw Record Decline in Foundation Giving The recent economic crisis caused the more than 75,000 grantmaking foundations in the United States to cut their 2009 giving by an estimated 8.4 percent -- by far the largest decline ever tracked by the Foundation Center.  |
AFP eWire March 27, 2006 |
Nonprofit Executives Burning Out, Planning to Leave Jobs A survey of almost 2,000 nonprofit executives found that 75 percent are planning on leaving their jobs within five years, while another 10 percent are already in the process of switching job.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Jan/Feb 2006 Lee Draper |
Managing the Workload How do grantmakers meet the demands of a skyrocketing workload? Many foundations are turning to technology to help provide solutions to streamline the workload.  |
Searcher Jul/Aug 2009 Nancy K. Herther |
Grantsmanship: Information Resources to Help Researchers Get Funding There are actually many different types of support available to researchers  |
AFP eWire November 20, 2012 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (November 20, 2012) What Do Donors, Foundations Want to Know about Nonprofits?... Direct Mail -- The Exquisite Corpse... How High-Profile Causes Like `Movember' Push Less `Sexy' Ones Aside...  |
Foundation News & Commentary Sep/Oct 2006 Bernholz, Fulton & Kasper |
Staying Ahead of the Technology Curve Here's how the latest technology trends could help community foundations serve their communities better.  |
AFP eWire August 9, 2011 |
What is Your Funding Strategy? Find out how your organization fits into these models so you can better articulate your funding strategy to funders and constituents.  |
CRM February 2010 Jessica Tsai |
Helping Hands The nonprofit sector needs CRM more than it knows, but its relationships are with donors, members, or activists - and technology is rarely a cause worth fighting for. Will the low cost of on-demand solutions finally allow nonprofits to embrace CRM?  |
AFP eWire November 29, 2010 |
Charities Seeing Slight Recovery in Giving, But Not Enough to Keep Up With Demand or Budget Cuts The small rebound hasn't been enough to help many nonprofits that are grappling with staff and service cuts even as demand for their services has increased.  |
Energize June 2010 Susan J. Ellis |
Reimagining Service: Is Corporate HR Management What We See? If you see volunteer management as just HR management, then you will love Reimagining Service, which promotes the idea of applying private sector human resources practices to nonprofit organizations.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Jul/Aug 2005 McCracken & Roth |
Funding Success Foundations can follow the lead of the healthcare industry toward better evidence-based practice grantmaking.  |
AFP eWire October 8, 2007 |
Canadian Funders Placing Huge Burdens on Charities The entire grant/funding process in Canada is becoming increasingly burdensome, time-consuming and complicated, according to a new report by the Wellesley Institute.  |
AFP eWire November 24, 2009 |
Most Nonprofits Experimenting With Social Media, But Struggle to Measure Value for Organization While seen as a good way to communicate with broad audiences and mobilize volunteer support, nonprofit executives are skeptical about social media's ability to reach donors, media and policy makers.  |
AFP eWire September 1, 2009 |
The Vicious Cycle of Low Overhead Nonprofit leaders say it's time to break the cycle of unrealistic expectations for overhead spending.  |
Job Journal November 23, 2008 Shelly Cryer |
A New Day in the Nonprofit Sector The dynamic, evolving, and rapidly expanding nonprofit sector offers abundant career opportunities -- and plenty of jobs providing a livable salary.  |
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Bill Becker |
Library Grant Money on the Web: A Resource Primer What if a library -- a public, academic, school, government, special, private/corporate, or research library -- seeks corporate, foundation, individual, or government grants? How can a professional searcher help?  |
AFP eWire December 13, 2004 |
Many Charities Misreporting Fundraising, Administrative Costs Public and donor pressure to keep administrative and fundraising expenses low may be leading nonprofit organizations to underreport such costs, according to a new study.  |
AFP eWire March 14, 2005 |
Website Back to Basics: Core Content Think a solid, interactive and even innovative website is just for the bigger charities? Think again. Here begins a five-part series on how smaller and mid-size organizations can get back to website basics and develop sites that resonate with donors.  |
Job Journal April 11, 2004 Jennifer Corkery |
Fundraisers & Grant Writers Fundraisers and grant writers prove indispensible to nonprofits.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Nov/Dec 2005 Millesen & Hedge |
Achieving Balance and Maintaining Accountability Findings from a recent study on the decision-making abilities of community foundation boards identify some challenges and offer some lessons learned.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Nov/Dec 2004 Kasper, Nielsen & Chao |
Democracy in Action Focus funds, the next wave of community philanthropy, are responding to the needs of both marginalized groups and new donor bases.  |
AFP eWire August 18, 2008 |
Shift in Grantee Evaluation Calls for Proactive Approach As foundations slowly shift to mid-game progress reports and play-by-play performance metrics for the programs they fund, grantees would be well-advised to help build the scorecards.  |
HBS Working Knowledge December 14, 2011 Julia Hanna |
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance Alnoor S. Ebrahim and philanthropist Mario Marino discuss the differences and similarities between performance measurement in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Jan/Feb 2005 |
Excerpt: Disaster Grantmaking: A Practical Guide for Foundations and Corporations Grantmakers can be more effective and strategic in addressing disasters by following these eight principles of good disaster management.  |
Foundation News & Commentary May/Jun 2005 Helen Monroe |
Vision, Values & Verbalization New foundations completing first distributions, as well as foundations with a mature grantmaking program in place, should set aside time for in-depth conversations about their work.  |
AFP eWire January 26, 2004 |
Fundraising Costs Project Conducts Case Studies An ongoing study to evaluate nonprofit fundraising and administrative costs is expected to release new findings in 2004.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Sep/Oct 2005 Miller et al. |
Beyond Diversity The Denver Foundation's Expanding Nonprofit Inclusiveness Initiative is working to move past racial diversity to inclusiveness.  |
AFP eWire May 17, 2011 David Simpson |
Peer to Peer Fundraising Deserves Top Level Focus and Resources These are trying times for any nonprofit trying to communicate with its members, particularly if it involves a request for funding.  |
Foundation News & Commentary May/Jun 2005 Ira Apfel |
Respect the Public Trust Stewardship principles and concrete practices for corporate grantmakers.  |
Entrepreneur December 2006 Carol Tice |
Making a Difference If you have a passion for a cause, starting a nonprofit could be for you.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Sep/Oct 2004 Jed Emerson |
Shifting into Foundation Overdrive Grantmakers' singular focus on payout as usual won't take the sector where it needs to go.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Mar/Apr 2005 Andras Kosaras |
Self-Regulation An Overview of Principles and Standards Work at the Council on Foundations that provides the opportunity, leadership and tools needed by philanthropic organizations to expand, enhance and sustain their ability to advance the common good.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Jul/Aug 2004 Nan Aron |
Advocacy's Efficacy Nonprofit advocacy is an effective way to leverage foundation resources and make a significant impact. Here's why and how.  |
Foundation News & Commentary Jul/Aug 2004 Paula J. Kelly |
Spreading Your Wings With a Sabbatical Sabbaticals create time for grantmakers and their grantees to rest, recharge and return to work with a new sense of purpose.  |
Job Journal November 7, 2004 Julia Hollister |
Nonprofits Ideal for Careers with Care Nonprofit work might be a way of breaking new ground. Because you may be the only one in your department, you often have autonomy. And you can learn to be a jack-of-all-trades.  |
Financial Planning December 1, 2010 Suzanne McGee |
The New Philanthropy Betsy Dickey was startled and dismayed to realize how much she had to learn about what is involved in becoming a hands-on philanthropist rather than just a checkbook donor.  |
CRM August 12, 2015 Gabe Cooper |
Why Nonprofits Deserve CRM Innovation With charitable giving exceeding $298 billion in the U.S. alone, it's time that software companies gave nonprofits the attention they deserve by creating technology that truly serves their needs.  |