Technology
For Community Foundation Media Projects: Rules of the Road for Partnership
As community foundations become active leaders in local news and information, many are learning they don’t need to go it alone. A variety of different partnership models are emerging and they are detailed in a new report by FSG for Knight Foundation.
The report is aimed primarily at foundations…
The New Mobile Giver and the Story Behind Millions in Donations by Text for Haiti
A new kind of charitable giver is emerging in the mobile age.
A report underwritten by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has found that this donor is younger and more likely to be African-American or Latino than traditional donors. Moreover, new donors often use their mobile phones to…
How Mother Nature Changed Our Plans … But Not Our Message
I’ve long been wary about in-house videos. Because, let’s face it, videos can be tough to pull off. So it was with some trepidation that we decided not just to make our first set of short videos this year, but to feature them at our 25th anniversary annual meeting-indeed, to make them the…
Stuart Comstock-Gay
Stuart Comstock-Gay has spent his career addressing issues of community, democracy and civil rights, both in philanthropy and civil rights work. He is president of the Delaware Community Foundation, the same post he held in Vermont. He has served as executive director of the National Voting Rights…
Why We Went Digital With Our Donor Stories
by PJ Watters
As a community foundation, we are always talking about our role connecting "people who care" with "causes that matter." When we award grants from our funds, people don't usually know who's behind the fund name-and they should! It's time we tell our fund founders' stories. So we…
Focusing Your Information Need: Four Lessons
by Sophia Guevara
As a librarian, some of the clients I deal with come to me because they know what they want but just can't find it. Then there are those who never truly understood their information need in the first place. A while back, I was forwarded a question from someone interested in…
Creating Community Impact in The Last Frontier
by Candace Winkler
Alaska Community Foundation (ACF) is a part of a much larger movement that is nearing the end of its first century of existence. As we compare ourselves with older community foundations across the nation, we realize the magnitude of the work we are doing — and the work that's…
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