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Check out this video with the 2023 MyImpact Challenge Grand Prize Winner, Caroline Gao, as she describes her organization, The World in Us, and what she learned and values about BRI's student civic engagement contest. #MyImpactChallenge #civics #BRI

🎯"We seek to cultivate trust in authentic conversations, including gathering feedback on experiences of those involved with the CORE Collective to provide insights useful for our continued CORE programming and beyond, especially as advocates and the philanthropic sector explore ways to support and enhance the collaboration that leads to real results for students." ❇️Check out this new blog via CEP, The Center for Effective Philanthropy, where our colleagues, Lange Luntao, Director of External Relations, and Esmeralda Marcial, Manager of External Relations, share more about the impact of one of EdTrust-West's signature programs, the Communities Organizing for Racial Equity in Education (CORE) Collective. 🔗Read it here: bit.ly/3BuBv9z

Every quarter, Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation's team works together to distill the most impactful stories to share with our community. Sometimes we have so much content that the website can barely keep up. When I first started in the nonprofit sector as a storyteller, the credo was "no one cares about the sausage making." With so many places to contribute your resources and a greater desire to see behind the curtain, we have a new challenge as nonprofit communications experts. The sector and our stakeholders want more than a report out on numbers and outcomes. Some things our stakeholders want to undertand include: • *how* and *why* we make the choices we make, and how we continue to learn and adapt to do things better (see the scholarships story by Dana Crary, TTCF Community Impact Manager), • the intentional partnerships that help funders realize our values statements instead of checking DEI boxes for PR (see the Washoe grant story), and • strategies that help donors make the most of every dollar for greater impact in the places that they care about (see the Philanthropies section and our $10 million matching grant). This impact report shares a lot more than all of that, and I am proud to be part of the team of staff, Board, partners, and donors who make this work possible and hold ourselves accountable to our community. Please enjoy. #communications #nonprofitcommunications #philanthropy #communityfoundation

Effective communication is at the heart of every successful nonprofit, from telling their story to amplifying their impact. Today, we celebrate the incredible work of the more than 1.8 million nonprofits in the United States and the difference they make in our communities. Hear from one of these passionate organizations in this episode of Firm Beliefs: https://spoti.fi/3X7NRNs #TheBlissGrp #NationalNonprofitDay #Nonprofits #Communications

Delighted to share my blog for WINGS - I explore how charitable foundations are increasingly examining their wealth origins and recognising and addressing problematic histories. https://lnkd.in/eSuSeVWA And I introduce Association of Charitable Foundations' toolkit, providing practical guidance to support foundations in this work. Understanding the past is crucial for foundations, especially those focused on addressing inequities. #Philanthropy #EquityInPhilanthropy

Unlock Power Building: Making better-informed decisions about where & how to invest to achieve transformative policy change 💡 To advance racial, social, and economic justice, philanthropy must support grassroots organizations that are driving transformative policy changes. This report (https://beyondc3.org/), based on interviews with over thirty civic engagement grantmakers, outlines actionable steps funders can take to shift giving practices and better support multi-entity organizations engaged in bold power-building efforts. #501c4 #powerbuilding #philanthropy #policychange #grassrootsorganizing #racialjustice #socialjustice #economicjustice

A new report finds that, "Foundations have an identity problem. Americans have little understanding of what foundations do and how they affect our daily lives. This is not just a matter of brand identity for individual foundations; the lack of a clear narrative about what the philanthropic sector does, in a larger ecosystem of change, leaves people with questions." "Philanthropy’s New Voice is the largest study of narratives in philanthropy. It is a robust, multimethod research effort to surface the American public’s and federal policymakers’ perspectives on philanthropy, current communications practices at foundations, and specific types of stories that can increase the public’s understanding of and trust in foundations." Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eKMcryWN #philanthropy #foundations #grantmaking #funders #communication #storytelling #impact #trust #collaboration

📢 Important Update: New Dates for Foundations on the Hill 2025 🗓️ We're announcing new dates for #FOTH25: February 23-26, 2025 📌 JW Marriott Washington, D.C. ❓ Why the change? The newly released Congressional calendar showed our original dates falling during recess. We've adjusted to ensure our sector can have meaningful engagement with legislators and maximum impact for our advocacy efforts during what will be an extremely important legislative session. What you need to know: ✅ Already registered? Your registration automatically transfers ✅ Hotel reservations in our block will be automatically updated ✅ Same great programming, new dates ✅ Registration remains open! Foundations on the Hill will continue to be the premier advocacy event for the philanthropic sector, bringing together sector leaders, advocates, and policymakers to strengthen our collective voice on Capitol Hill. #philanthropy #advocacy #publicpolicy #FoundationsOnTheHill #FOTH25 Council on Foundations Independent Sector

Such profound and insightful work from the Center for Public Interest Communications. For anyone interested in #philanthropy and #narratives / #narrativechange, this is a must read!

This discussion of evidence in decision making was eye-opening for me! You can now view it at the link below. We discussed: What is evidence? How do we challenge the traditional preference for statistical data to also include other forms of information? What do we do in the absence of good information, or, alternatively, when and how do we get beyond "admiring the problem" to stop data collection and act? What are strategies for dealing with "fact resistance" and data denial?