Showing: 4711 - 4720 of 7796 results
“The movement towards outcomes-driven philanthropy has done a lot to diminish creativity,” concluded one CEO at a recent GMA Foundations’ NPO Conversation on creativity. At this regular lunchtime forum, leaders of seven Boston-area nonprofits were asked to open up about their…
All Programming
search
function search_for(element){q = jQuery('input[name="search_box"]').val();url = window.location+""; url = url.split("#")[0]; url = url.split("?")[0];window.location = url+"?search_text="+q;}
Print All Sessions
<?php
module_load_include('module', 'conference…
Andrés Spokoiny is president and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network.
Download the Presentation Slides
Effectively engaging in place based philanthropy requires the need to rethink various aspects of the organizational set-up such as: the role of the program officer and other key staff, the way you develop metrics and evaluation tools to measure success, and the…
Last year, influenced by the hype around Darwin’s 150th anniversary, I developed an interest in evolutionary theory. I read a few books about it, including the masterful Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, and since then I’ve been kind of obsessed. I usually find myself in odd moments trying…
Yesterday, I wrote a bit about how funders, like all humans, are programmed by millions of years of evolution to hate failure. But our DNA hasn’t kept pace with the changing times. If our brains were adapted to the modern world instead of the prehistoric reality of the first apes with…
Roxanne Joffe is strategic communications lead at The Patterson Foundation.
Beginning in 2014, there has been a spike in the number of refugees arriving in Europe who are fleeing countries in conflict. During 2015, the number of arriving refugees has already more than doubled the amount of refugees who came to Europe in all of 2014. The unprecedented movement of people…