Network for Good
Publication date:
04/2014
Network for Good brings together donors, volunteers, and charities online to accomplish good. Nonprofits can access tools for fundraising, volunteer recruitment, and donor communication.
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How Your 501(c)(3) Can Distribute Voting Records or Legislative Scorecards
Publication date:
09/2014
Guidelines on how 501(c)(3) nonprofits can distribute voting records or legislative scorecards.
Ten Keys – Ten Years Later: Successful Strategic Planning for Foundation Leaders
Publication date:
09/2014
... paper,"Ten Keys to Successful Strategic Planning for Nonprofit and Foundation Leaders," originally published in .....
Resilience Begins at Home
Release Date:
07/30/2013
Rockefeller Foundation Vice President of Global Communications Neill Coleman discusses the findings of a recent survey exploring the resilience of people and neighborhoods directly affected by Superstorm Sandy.
The Case for Using a Social Justice Lens in Grantmaking
Release Date:
09/19/2012
Michael Seltzer, Trustee at EMpower-The Emerging Markets Foundation and past President of Philanthropy New York, explores the history of social justice and grantmaking and explains how foundations can effectively practice social justice philanthropy.
Learn and Let Learn
Publication date:
10/2012
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations’ publication explores how learning communities can be powerful tools in creating and shaping peer connections that help expand knowledge, deepen skills and enhance practice.
Evaluation in Philanthropy: Perspectives from the Field
Publication date:
12/2009
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and the Council on Foundations explore how evaluation can help grantmakers learn and improve practices (not just "prove" results).
Benchmarking Foundation Administrative Expenses: Update on How Operating Characteristics Affect Spending
Publication date:
09/2012
This report explores how variations in foundations' characteristics, activities and giving levels influence charitable administrative expense levels. It can help to inform policy debates and foundation practices.
Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Grantmaking
What is the business of your organization? Explore the core cycle of how foundations make grants, as well as how foundations give, ways to manage relationships with grantees, and where implicit bias plays a role in grantmaking.
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School-based Health Centers in New York State: Ensuring Sustainability & Establishing Opportunities for Growth
Publication date:
01/2014
In this NYSHealth-supported report, the Children’s Defense Fund identifies ways to sustain New York State’s school-based health centers (SBHCs), while also achieving the goals of the Medicaid Redesign initiative, to serve New York’s most at-risk children.
Private Assets and Public Space: A Conversation with John Tyler, Steve Johnson, and William Dietel
Release Date:
09/25/2009
... questions on the table here: What are private foundation resources really about? Whom are they meant to serve? What ... a frequent presenter and author on such diverse topics as nonprofit governance, private...
Responding to the Challenge of Strengthening Grantee Boards
Release Date:
06/07/2010
... our region each year, and the tremendous influence that a nonprofit ’s board of directors can exert over an ... grantmakers and grantees with a solution to improving nonprofit governance in a manner that...
Don’t Forget the Small Guys
Release Date:
07/19/2010
During the current recession, several grantmakers have decided to fund larger and more-established nonprofits, rather than invest in newer, smaller, and “riskier” ones. In our latest blog post, Miguel Bonilla, the Director of Strengthening New York...
Recording: The Youth Mental Health Crisis: A Half-Day Convening Focused on How Philanthropy Can Make All the Difference
... and Delivery Challenges in Youth Mental Health Services: Nonprofit providers share firsthand experiences of the ...
Understanding NY City & State's Legislative Landscape: An Overview for Funders with the Advocacy Institute
... the operating environment in order to maximize their own resources . Ensuring real impact at the local and state level ... through creative visual aids and cutting edge resources like the Legislative Directory...
United Hospital Fund Supports Guide on Basic Care Techniques for PICC Lines
Release Date:
03/17/2017
... do not have the training or access to easy-to-understand resources to safely maintain the lines. The new guide ... will contribute to the infection prevention/patient safety resources available to staff and...
25
Apr
2012
Power to the People: Participatory Budgeting as a New Model of Civic Engagement in NYC
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 -
8:30am to 11:00am
Participatory budgeting is a democratic process that gives ordinary people real decision-making power over real money. Community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. The process has the potential to transform relationships...
10
Mar
2015
Supporting Grantee Capacity
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 -
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Missed this session? View the recording here . Each foundation takes its own approach to thinking about and supporting grantee capacity. GrantCraft, a service of Foundation Center, launched a guide called Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening...
24
Mar
2016
Legal Series: Best Practices in International Grantmaking
Thursday, March 24, 2016 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Do you understand and take advantage of all of the options that are available to you when choosing to make grants around the world? Do you have unwarranted fears? Learn how to navigate the legal and programmatic issues in making grants outside the...
The Term Impact Investing Needs to Be Better Understood
Release Date:
02/03/2016
... foundation leaders concerned about putting all of their resources to maximum use to serve their organization’s ...