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Financial Safety Net of Nonprofit Organizations Is Fraying, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Scot Evans on 26 Mar 09
     
    The financial health of the nation's nonprofit groups is rapidly deteriorating, according to a survey of some 900 nonprofit leaders around the country.
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Building Movement Project - 0 views

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  • Scot Evans on 26 May 09
     
    The Building Movement Project works to strengthen the role of US nonprofit organizations as sites of democratic practice and to advance ways nonprofits can significantly contribute to building movement for progressive social change.
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The Urban Institute | Outcome Indicators Project - 0 views

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shared by Scot Evans on 27 Jun 11 - Cached
  • The Outcome Indicators Project provides a framework for tracking nonprofit performance. It suggests candidate outcomes and outcome indicators to assist nonprofit organizations that seek to develop new outcome monitoring processes or improve their existing systems.
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Return on Investment of $115 to $1 - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy - 0 views

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  • "This report demonstrates without a doubt that foundation funding for advocacy and civic engagement results in substantial benefits for families and communities across the nation," said Aaron Dorfman, executive director of NCRP. "These strategies enable nonprofits and grantmakers to address complex social and economic challenges effectively and improve the lives of the under-served."
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Collective Impact (November 17, 2010) | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 0 views

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  • Why has Strive made progress when so many other efforts have failed? It is because a core group of community leaders decided to abandon their individual agendas in favor of a collective approach to improving student achievement.
  • These leaders realized that fixing one point on the educational continuum—such as better after-school programs—wouldn’t make much difference unless all parts of the continuum improved at the same time. No single organization, however innovative or powerful, could accomplish this alone. Instead, their ambitious mission became to coordinate improvements at every stage of a young person’s life, from “cradle to career.”
  • Strive, both the organization and the process it helps facilitate, is an example of collective impact, the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem.
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  • collective impact initiatives involve a centralized infrastructure, a dedicated staff, and a structured process that leads to a common agenda, shared measurement, continuous communication, and mutually reinforcing activities among all participants.
  • arge-scale social change comes from better cross-sector coordination rather than from the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
  • In short, the nonprofit sector most frequently operates using an approach that we call isolated impact. It is an approach oriented toward finding and funding a solution embodied within a single organization, combined with the hope that the most effective organizations will grow or replicate to extend their impact more widely.
  • Shifting from isolated impact to collective impact is not merely a matter of encouraging more collaboration or public-private partnerships. It requires a systemic approach to social impact that focuses on the relationships between organizations and the progress toward shared objectives. And it requires the creation of a new set of nonprofit management organizations that have the skills and resources to assemble and coordinate the specific elements necessary for collective action to succeed.
  • “Mobilizing and coordinating stakeholders is far messier and slower work than funding a compelling grant request from a single organization. Systemic change, however, ultimately depends on a sustained campaign to increase the capacity and coordination of an entire field.”
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Gear Up for Giving: Social Media Tutorials for Nonprofits - Giving Gurus | Case Foundation - 0 views

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    "the best-known experts on leveraging social media for social good out there. "
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Public Agenda: Helping Americans Explore Today's Issues | Public Agenda - 0 views

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    The country faces enormous challenges. PublicAgenda.org is designed to provide citizens and leaders with the tools they need to tackle them. You'll be able to get the critical facts, consider the choices and current public opinion, and learn new ways to work together on fundamental problems facing the country. Public Agenda is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to strengthen our democracy's capacity to take on tough issues.
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The Nonprofit Quarterly | @npquarterly | As Income Inequality Rises in U.S., Society Su... - 0 views

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  • This study, however, not only sheds new light on patterns of income distribution, but also explores whether differences in county level per capita income are associated with other social issues. The authors conclude that the correlations are striking, and that rising income inequality therefore needs far more attention from policy makers.
  • Scot Evans on 29 Apr 11
     
    Far more attention needed indeed!
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Mapping Your Online/Offline Activism: Surfrider Foundation - Beth's Blog: How Nonprofit... - 0 views

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shared by Scot Evans on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Scot Evans on 30 Sep 10
     
    Chad Nelsen who is the Environmental Director at the Surfrider Foundation where he has worked since 1998.  (He's currently getting his Ph.D in surf economics!) He gave a presentation about how Surfrider Foundation is striving to make its grassroots network more effective.    He touched on how they are using social networks/media in this effort.
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By Social Entrepreneurs, For Social Entrepreneurs® - Social Edge - 0 views

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  • Scot Evans on 03 Feb 10
     
    Social Edge is a program of the Skoll Foundation that was inspired by Jeff Skoll's commitment to connecting people with shared passions. Social Edge is the global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources.
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"Transformer: How to Build a Network to Change a System" | WiserEarth Blog - 0 views

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shared by Scot Evans on 23 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Start by understanding the system you are trying to change. Involve both funders and nonprofits as equals from the outset. Design for a network, not an organization—and invest in collective infrastructure. Cultivate leadership at many levels. Create multiple opportunities to connect and communicate. Remain adaptive and emergent—and committed to a long-term vision.
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