How often does your organization step back and remember your mission? Sure, you know what your mission is, but how often do you refine the sense of mission that exists in the hearts of your staff, board members and supporters? This year’s Heart & Soul grant program, put on by the CTK Foundation, is designed […]
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Authored by Daniel Lee, Executive Director, Levi Strauss Foundation. Re-posted with permission from the Levi Strauss & Co blog, Unzipped. “If my grandmother, who lived and cleaned houses in Jim Crow South, would’ve ever been told that her granddaughter would get paid to talk about freedom, she wouldn’t have believed it.” Whether it’s Black History
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This blog was written by Elaine Gast Fawcett, and was posted on her website, Philanthropy Writing, on February 9, 2011. We are re-posting it here with her permission. Like many people, I’ve had good Valentine’s Days and well, not so good. The not-so-good dates back to middle school, when I, like many of my classmates, anxiously
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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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Cyber Monday is behind us (thank god!). Now it’s time to finish your holiday shopping so you can do what you truly enjoy during the holidays: spend time with friends and loved ones, take time off work to relax, volunteer to help those in need, appreciate all the wonder and beauty of life, and oh
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The Foundation Center just released a new research advisory on the impact of the economic crisis on foundations in the US, based on a survey of 719 foundations conducted in September 2010. I find their research to be tremendously helpful and timely, so I thought I would share highlights from the survey with you. First,
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