Philanthropy411 is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference with the help of a blog team. This is a guest post by Krista Jahnke, Communications Officer at The Skillman Foundation. Fow along on twitter @kristajahnke or @skillmanfound. The other day while watching TV and unwinding at home, I made a decision. I took […]
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Philanthropy411 is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference with the help of a blog team. This is a guest post by William Albert, Chief Program Officer at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Follow Bill on Twitter – @balbert1 At a pre conference session Wednesday afternoon, the good folks
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Philanthropy411 is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference with the help of a blog team. This is a guest post by Cynthia Dodd Adcock, Vice President, Communications and Marketing at Independent Sector. Follow her on Twitter – @cyndodd. The Communications Network’s Fall 2013 Conference is off to a great start in New
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I’m thrilled to announce the Communications Network/Putnam Consulting Group Blog Team for the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference! We’ll be blogging from New Orleans starting with the pre-conference sessions on Wednesday, October 2nd. Follow along with the conference hashtag: #comnetwork13 and follow @Com_Network and @Philanthropy411 for tweets about the conference and blog posts. Here
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I was once asked by a community foundation to submit a proposal to conduct an evaluation. I asked how many other consultants he was requesting bids from. “Fifty,” he said. “Fifty?” I replied, stunned. “Five-zero?” “Yes,” he proudly answered. “I pre-screened fifty evaluators and I sent them all the RFP.” This was to conduct a
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This is a guest post by Kyle Reis. After twenty-five years at the Ford Foundation, Kyle has just joined the nonprofit social enterprise TechSoup Global as Senior Director of Global Data Services and East Coast Representative. When not busy raising three daughters or reading Emily Dickinson poems, he spends his time thinking about the intersection
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