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Talking About It Can Help Break Bad Foundation Habits

Tip of the hat to James Irvine President James E. Canales for writing in an op-ed in this week’s Chronicle of Philanthropy that foundations should communicate more openly and engage more people in...

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What’s Ours Is Yours, Really!

Like the rest of society, the philanthropic sector is increasingly moving away from producing and  distributing intellectual property the old-fashioned way, and is becoming ever more reliant on...

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What Did You Say?

Rather than give them short shrift by summarizing two items I had published elsewhere today, I’ll point you to to them so you can read them in full. One is an op-ed in the current Chronicle of...

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Making the Case for Making the Case

I had the privilege last week of leading a session at the Council on Foundations annual conference on the topic When Program and Communications are Integrated, Good Things Happen for Foundations. It...

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Want to Make Sure Your Research Gets Used? Here Are Some Great Tips.

In a post a few weeks ago, I wrote how the nonprofit sector was increasingly relying on new forms of digital distribution to ”put valuable knowledge in the hands of more people who can learn from, act...

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Soon to Be Gone, But Not Forgotten

Not long ago I wondered out loud what it would be like to be the communications director for a foundation planning to spend down. I asked: What would your final annual report say? How would you...

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Nothing to Hide: Irvine Shows How to Candidly Report Bad News

In 1999, the James Irvine Foundation launched Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL), a major initiative to improve education achievement in low-performing schools in five...

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Communicating With the Public Is Key to Peterson Foundation

What do a foundation launch and Hollywood-style movie premiere have in common? For the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, quite a bit. The foundation, which only officially opened for business in mid-July,...

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Funders Not Only Ask Grantees, “How Are We Doing?” But Sharing What They...

When the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) began conducting surveys of grantees in 2003, foundations primarily used the findings to learn what their grant recipients liked about doing business...

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Ask First, Then Design

Throughout the 14 months it spent on the redesign, the team responsible for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s new Web site stayed singly focused on making sure the end product would meet the...

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Online Conversations Help Promote “Information Marketplace” Idea

It’s a concern every foundation faces: How do we ensure that our report or study gets the attention it deserves, generates useful conversation, and helps advance the featured issue or cause? That was...

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To Publish Or Not Publish Its Annual Report, Lumina Foundation Doesn’t Guess...

At the 2008 Fall Communications Network Annual conference, one of the most spirited discussions focused on the question about whether foundation annual reports are a thing of the past. While arguments...

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Somehow, It All Adds Up

Personally and professionally, I’m rarely at a loss for words.  In fact, since becoming a regular user of Twitter, the 140-character limit on the size of a Tweet leaves me with lots of spare words at...

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When Democracy Gets Personal

Guest Post:  Larry “Bud” Meyer, president of Meyer Communications LLC, chair, Communications Network If you’re a political junkie (like I am), you may be familiar with the annual PdF (Personal...

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Have Something to Say? Tweet About It

Guest Post: Buffy Beaudoin-Schwartz, Communications Director, Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers Like many in the foundation world, we are constantly trying to ensure that we are up on the...

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Here’s a Question I Can’t Wait to Answer (Nor Should You)

A lot of the work we do in the Communications Network often involves talking with other communications professionals at foundations and nonprofits about how to use communications well. Every once in a...

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Foundations In Blogistan

Guest Post: Mitch Hurst, vice president, Interactive Solutions, Scofield Company, in Chicago, and board member, Communications Network. This post originally appeared on his blog, With or Without You....

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Hooray for “Annals of Accountability”

Over at Philantopic, the Foundation Center’s Mitch Nauffts has begun a new series, Annals of Accountability. He looks for and cites examples of foundations and individual donors stepping up to the...

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When It Comes to Health Care, Commonwealth Fund Website Asks: Why Not the Best?

Web sites that provide easily accessible information about the best restaurants, stores or travel destinations also serve as an incentive to keep quality high in order to avoid bad ratings. Could such...

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Lumina Knows Everyone Is Watching — That’s Part of the [Strategic] Plan

It’s probably not in the plans, but it wouldn’t be a surprise to see the Lumina Foundation for Education renting a sign in New York City’s Times Square to call attention to its strategic plan – or at...

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