If you’ve written a grant in the last year, chances are at least one of these things has happened to you. Your proposal is carefully crafted and ready to be uploaded and submitted. You access your account in the funder’s online system and spend the next few hours troubleshooting lost passwords, surprise character limitations, newContinueContinue reading “Navigating Funders’ Online Grants Management Systems – GrantAdvisor”
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Digital Security & Grantcraft Guide / Ford Foundation
Funders ask us all kinds of questions about our financial, leadership, cultural, and management capacities. Not once has a funder asked me about our digital security capacity, even when awarding $100,000-plus grants. This guide is geared towards grantmakers, but is also useful for grantees to self-asses our digital security threats. In the digital age, grantmakersContinueContinue reading “Digital Security & Grantcraft Guide / Ford Foundation”
↜ GrantAdvisor: A TripAdvisor for nonprofit funders
A new service where nonprofit professionals can review and rate their experience with funders, see other nonprofits’ experience with prospects, and read funders’ responses to their reviews.
Finding a mentor – Signal v. Noise
Don’t just look for people decades ahead of you. Also look for people just a few steps ahead. Their memory of your circumstances is much fresher. People tend to look for mentors who are too far afield. A mentor who’s 20 or 30 years on in their career. I think this is misguided. I thinkContinueContinue reading “Finding a mentor – Signal v. Noise”
Candid: The Foundation Center/GuideStar Merger’s Noteworthy Process – Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
A very good hot take of the recently announced merger of two large nonprofits, and the investment and patience of the funder community in ensuring the time was right for the combination. They agreed to each build on their complementary capacities, meanwhile providing them to one another so they could grow to the scale aContinueContinue reading “Candid: The Foundation Center/GuideStar Merger’s Noteworthy Process – Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly”
The Nonprofit Strategy Library
Curated links to the best strategic management resources for nonprofit leaders. Source: The Nonprofit Strategy Library
⬿ The Bridge to Next Year: 7 Critical 2018 Civil Society Trends from NPQ – Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
A good recap of the big trends for civil society, nonprofits, and philanthropy in 2018 going into 2019. Social trends do not observe calendars, of course, but as NPQ looks back over some of the powerful trends rocking this country and its nonprofits and philanthropic sector this year, we see 7 trends that are activelyContinueContinue reading “⬿ The Bridge to Next Year: 7 Critical 2018 Civil Society Trends from NPQ – Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly”
On Blogs in the Social Media Age – Study Hacks – Cal Newport
Twitter Defector Earlier this week, Glenn Reynolds, known online as Instapundit, published an op-ed in USA Today about why he recently quit Twitter. Source: On Blogs in the Social Media Age – Study Hacks – Cal Newport
The World Nomads Podcast: The Baltics
The World Nomads Podcast: transplants, folklore, overnight forest hikes in bare feet in Latvia. Also; the number one reason you never get an upgrade. Source: The World Nomads Podcast: The Baltics A good podcast episode about the Baltics. I loved my brief stop in Riga, Lativa and hope to return for a longer, deeper explorationContinueContinue reading “The World Nomads Podcast: The Baltics”
Pwning Tomorrow | Electronic Frontier Foundation
As part of EFF’s 25th Anniversary celebrations in 2015, we published “Pwning Tomorrow: Stories from the Electronic Frontier,” an anthology of speculative fiction from more than 20 authors, including Source: Pwning Tomorrow | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Watched: On the Basis of Sex (2018)
The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and what she had to overcome in order to become a female U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: On the Basis of Sex (2018) – IMDb
↜ As Tech Invades Cycling, Are Bike Activists Selling Out? | WIRED
We are building an ecosystem of active transportation professionals across the nonprofit, government, academic, institutional, and private sectors. When our employees gain diverse experiences in diverse settings, it enriches all of our organizations.
The blog is dead, long live the blog » Nieman Journalism Lab
“The Stream might be on the wane but still it dominates. All media on the web and in mobile apps has blog DNA in it and will continue to for a long while.” Source: The blog is dead, long live the blog » Nieman Journalism Lab
A Strategic Nonprofit Reorganization Plan – Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
A nonprofit organization gets a chance at role reversal with foundations. Source: A Strategic Nonprofit Reorganization Plan – Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
🚴🏾♀️ A network approach to bike equity
Walkable and bikeable neighborhoods are in high demand, so when their availability is limited they are expensive. Building a large bike/ped network all at once brings the benefits to more people while reducing the price pressure that occurs from unmet demand. @erogers on Twitter, 5/2/2018 This tweet summed up my most valuable lesson from theContinueContinue reading “🚴🏾♀️ A network approach to bike equity”
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