Philanthropy411, is currently covering the Council on Foundations conference with the help of a blog team. This is a guest post by Daniel Silverman, Communications Director at the James Irvine Foundation. by Daniel Silverman I am in Philadelphia enjoying this historic and world-class cultural city before the conference kicks-off with the opening luncheon plenary on Sunday […]
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Philanthropy411, is currently covering the Council on Foundations conference with the help of a blog team. This is a guest post by Richard Woo, CEO, of The Russell Family Foundation. by Richard Woo Tonight a boatload of folks celebrated the ten year birthday of EPIP: Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy. I’m serious, it was a boatload
Philanthropy411, is currently covering the Council on Foundations conference with the help of a blog team. This is a guest post by Jorge Cino, Social Media Fellow, at the Levi Strauss Foundation . by Jorge Cino “You’re here to connect storytelling to social change,” Daniel Lee, Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation, bluntly told
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This blog was written by Brenton Gieser, and was posted on his website, brentongieser.com, on December 31, 2010. We are re-posting it here with his permission. A little over a month ago I began a stint as a consultant with Rec.fm, a new start-up out of the valley that is dedicated to merging social commerce with cause donations. A
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Philanthropy411 recently covered the Communications Network 2010 Fall Conference with the help of a blog team. Altogether there were 41 conference attendees who tweeted, blogged and conducted on the spot video interviews about the latest developments and challenges in effective foundation communications. Below is a list of all blog posts published for this event, and
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The Great Recession has hit nonprofits hard. The most recent Chronicle of Philanthropy survey found that donations to the nation’s biggest charities dropped 11 % last year — resulting in billions of dollars in lost revenue. It’s the worst decline since the survey started 20 years ago. The good news: There is a large, promising,
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