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Announcing Blog Team for Community Foundations Conference

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I’m thrilled to announce the 2010 Philanthropy411 Blog Team for the Council on Foundations Fall Conference for Community Foundations in Charlotte, NC! We’ll be blogging from Saturday, September 11th through Friday September 17th, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy will be re-posting many of our Team’s blogs on their Conference Notebook blog. The Council on Foundations […]

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15 Ways To Improve Grantee Communication at Your Foundation

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This was originally posted by me as a guest blogger on the Philanthropy News Digest’s blog,  PhilanTopic, and re-posted on the Communications Network blog. Clear communication with grantees matters: Grantees are typically a foundation’s chosen agents of change, selected for their ability to create impact. The better a foundation can communicate its goals and strategies

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Blog Team Coverage of the Council on Foundations Conference

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Philanthropy411, in partnership with the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers, recently covered the 2010 Council on Foundations conference with the help of a blog team.  This is a list of all posts published for this event. Kick off of Council on Foundations Blog Team, posted by Sterling Speirn, President and CEO, WK Kellogg Foundation

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10 Common Pitfalls of Building an Initiative – And How To Avoid Them

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Last week I posted 10 key attributes of grantmaking initiatives. If you’ve ever designed or managed an initiative, you already know it’s a complex process that can challenge even the most seasoned grantmaker, but well worth the investment of time and resources. At my consulting firm, Putnam Community Investment Consulting, Inc., we have helped clients

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10 Key Attributes of Grantmaking Initiatives

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One of our favorite clients, the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland, recently asked us to define the term “grantmaking initiative”. Simple, I thought. After all, nonprofits and foundations have used this term for ages. Here at Putnam Community Investment Consulting, we’ve spent the last 10 years designing, managing and evaluating foundation initiatives. We all

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