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19 Articles match "Chicago","Foundation"
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
quot; - Carol "Just went to a proposal-writing class in January with the top three grantmaking foundations in Cincinnati. quot; While Chicago does recommend caution in using "recently transformed words" in formal prose (section 5.31), I humbly submit that dictionaries have included "impact" as a transitive verb at least since 1996...meaning Last week we shared 6 Words Nonprofit Should Avoid in 2010 [link] which lit a fire under our fellow language purists' behinds to contribute their own irksome, shudder-inspiring, jargon-filled terms and punctuation usages to include on the banned list. Here are a couple of our favorite submissions: "Can we please ban the exclamation point from all fundraising literature, too?
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Chicago Trib critic Chris Jones posted a review of Outrageous Fortune , the book about the state of the new American play. No foundation is ever going to hand out enough money to give artists a living wage.
0160; His review of the book - or at least of some of the views expressed in the book - are pretty blunt and some may disagree with them. 0160; But he does say something that struck me as particularly interesting:
But at the point where the complainants in “Outrageous Fortunes” go after the paying customers, the book starts to become absurdly self-indulgent.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
This week I am joining us 150 Millennials in Chicago and thousands more on the Web will gather to discuss, debate and act on timely topics and ideas on civic engagement and public policy at the Mobilize.org Democracy 2.0 Live webcast and webcast schedule are below: [MOBILIZE.ORG WEBCAST SCHEDULE] PRE-PARTY: NOV 17TH 7:00 PM: Interviews at the Welcome Reception - The Hard Rock Café Chicago Meet some of the participants and organizers as BusinessBoomer host Arabella Santiago finds out why they’re there and what civic engagement means to them. Award Summit Exploring the Millennial Generation’s ROI.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
There you are walking down Lake Shore Drive past the rising Chicago Spire building eating a Chicago Red Hot, when you’re struck by a billboard with a message from, say, MercyCorps, asking for help providing relief to the cyclone-battered people in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta. Tags: mGive MercyCorps Myanmar Cyclone Mobile Accord Mobile Giving Foundation The Chicago Spir But the sign doesn’t feature a website URL, a toll-free telephone number or even an address to send a check. Instead the
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Monday, November 5, 2007
From The Foundation Center... Taproot Foundation Accepting Applications for Capacity-Building Service Grants Deadline: December 1, 2007 The Taproot Foundation ( [link] ) engages highly skilled business professionals to deliver capacity-building services to nonprofit organizations in New York City, Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, and Seattle. Unlike traditional foundations that provide cash grants, the Taproot Foundation makes "service grants" to provide nonprofits with critical marketing, technology, and human A grant from the Taproot Foundation can provide an organization with the tools and resources necessary to achieve specific goals and objectives in their strategic plan, marketing/ communications plan, technology plan, and staffing structure.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
few weeks ago a reader asked me to blog about effective ways that nonprofits and foundations can share their knowledge bases.
There’s a lot of talk in foundations and nonprofits about disseminating information, but for the most part their online resources are still PDF lists—ugh.
One great example is the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Today’s Topics in Health interactive Webcast series, which invites people to submit questions flickr/jessamyn
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
quot; - Carol "Just went to a proposal-writing class in January with the top three grantmaking foundations in Cincinnati. quot; While Chicago does recommend caution in using "recently transformed words" in formal prose (section 5.31), I humbly submit that dictionaries have included "impact" as a transitive verb at least since 1996...meaning Last week we shared 6 Words Nonprofit Should Avoid in 2010 [link] which lit a fire under our fellow language purists' behinds to contribute their own irksome, shudder-inspiring, jargon-filled terms and punctuation usages to include on the banned list. Here are a couple of our favorite submissions: "Can we please ban the exclamation point from all fundraising literature, too?
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Just FYI, I am a judge for the prize, alas, I don’t live in Chicago and can’t be bribed.
Here’s Tags: Social Media Pizzigati Prize Tides Foundatio The 2009 Pizzigati Prize application was just announced. The prize is a $10,000 grant to a person who had spearheaded a great software for the public interest. Here’s the announcement:
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
I know, for a fact that the Chicago Bears beat the Seattle Seahawks last Sunday 25-19 . Not some foundation.
99 has done another great post talking about how sports have been able to make themselves part of the fabric of mainstream American culture in a way that the arts have not. (h/t h/t to Thomas Cott for bringing it to people's attention.)
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Bottom Line Communications Consultant Steve Cebalt will be presenting "Alignment Communications: A PR Program connecting foundations and grantees" at the upcoming Communications Network Conference in Chicago, September 24-26, 2008. The mission of the Communications Network is to improve the effectiveness and accountability of foundations by promoting and strengthening the strategic practice of communications in philanthropy. For more information on the Alignment Communications approach for philanthropic foundations, please visit Alignment Communications for Nonprofit Foundations
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The head of the Doris Duke Foundation, Ben Cameron, was in Chicago recently to talk about the arts, the economy and the future.
Ben Cameron is the sort of arts guy that has groups because his speeches are so impactful, so if you haven't heard him before (or even if you have) click this link to access video of his speec
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
This week I am joining us 150 Millennials in Chicago and thousands more on the Web will gather to discuss, debate and act on timely topics and ideas on civic engagement and public policy at the Mobilize.org Democracy 2.0 Live webcast and webcast schedule are below: [MOBILIZE.ORG WEBCAST SCHEDULE] PRE-PARTY: NOV 17TH 7:00 PM: Interviews at the Welcome Reception - The Hard Rock Café Chicago Meet some of the participants and organizers as BusinessBoomer host Arabella Santiago finds out why they’re there and what civic engagement means to them. Award Summit Exploring the Millennial Generation’s ROI.
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Thursday, July 6, 2006
Most charitable foundations in this country operate as perpetual giving machines. The IRS mandates that foundations must spend down at least 5% of their endowment each year, or face penalties. The perpetual foundations usually treat that 5% minimum as their set goal, and rarely give above that. That is, they manage their funds and grant making in such a way that they will never spend out their entire endowment. In fact, many manage to grow their endowed base, even while awarding out millions of dollars in grants each year.
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