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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. Instead the.
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Monday, November 5, 2007
From The Foundation Center. Unlike traditional foundations that provide cash grants, the Taproot Foundation makes "service grants" to provide nonprofits with critical marketing, technology, and human resources devel- opment services. Visit the foundation's Web site for complete program information. RFP Link: [link].
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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. Tags: Social Media Pizzigati Prize Tides Foundation 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. If you know [.].
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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.
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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. flickr/jessamyn. Think more creatively.
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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 speech
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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 Peterson Foundation, “The Economic Reality for the Millennial Generation.”
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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. Here are a couple of our favorite submissions: "Can we please ban the exclamation point from all fundraising literature, too? No need to write like a happy Muppet." Dovetail and springboard. Hate it. Thanks!"
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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. 0160; This is our starting point.
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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. Buffett (son of Warren).
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