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How Do You Know Your Stories Are Making a Difference?

By June 30, 2015

This article was written for and published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on June 25th. By Paul VanDeCarr The “How Do We Know” web site uses garden tools as metaphors to provide fresh language for exploring media impact. Shovels, for example, represent investigative stories that dig for the truth. For many storytellers — even advocacy…

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Challenging the Orthodoxies of Philanthropy

By June 23, 2015

This piece is a repost, published on the Stanford Social Innovation Review website and written by Gabriel Kasper & Jess Ausinheiler. Are traditional assumptions about how we “do” philanthropy preventing us from finding new and better ways of working? Success stories about social change rarely start with large guns. But, as it turns out, there’s a…

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Grantees Lifting Each Other’s Work Up: Repost from IVOH

By May 25, 2015

The following post first published on the IVOH website, one of our grantees, lifts up the work of another one of our grantees, Active Voice, and their new project ONWARD. By Ronnie Lovler  Ronnie is an ivoh core team member and freelance writer, editor, and English/Spanish translator. Not too long ago, I helped out a friend who…

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Channelling Funds Into Baltimore When They Need It Most

By May 1, 2015

As suggested by Pia in her post on supporting emergent racial justice movements, we have previously advocated for the importance of moving quickly the time is right. While this article we are reposting problematically and racially describes Baltimore are “riot-torn” (we might reframe that as another epicenter for the struggle for human rights for black and…

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The Promise and Potential of Place-Based Leadership Programs

By April 2, 2015

[This post was first published on NCRP’s blog] Photo courtesy of LeaderSpring. By Cynthia A. Chavez Editor’s Note: This piece is the third in a series featuring leadership development experts on the value they’ve found in NCRP’s new report,Cultivating Nonprofit Leadership: A (Missed?) Philanthropic Opportunity. For past posts, click here. In the early 1990s, I had an…

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