Guest author Stuart Comstock-Gay shares how the Vermont Community Foundation has found success deploying social media as a piece of their overall communications model.
Just One Piece of the Communications Pie
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Using Social Media to Shift from Delivering Information to Creating Value
Guest authors Jon Sotsky and Elizabeth Miller discuss Knight Foundation’s social media strategy to increasingly engage with their grantee partners.
If a Tweet Falls…
Guest author Elizabeth Christopherson of the Rita Allen Foundation offers her interpretation of the findings in “Grantees’ Limited Engagement with Foundations’ Social Media.”
Measurement, Effectiveness, and the Philanthropy’s Promise Initiative
Guest author Sean Dobson, field director at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, shares key findings from NCRP research underlying the Philanthropy’s Promise Initiative.
How Evaluation Measures Up: A CEO’s Perspective
Guest author Anne Warhover shares how the Colorado Health Foundation is using data to measure performance and influence strategy.
Moving Beyond Business as Usual
Guest author Antony Bugg-Levine discusses results from Nonprofit Finance Center’s State of the Sector Survey and suggests steps funders can take to ease the financial burdens of their grantees.
Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?
Guest author Joel Orosz examines the sometimes frustrating experience of applying for a grant — and what that means for practitioners of philanthropy.
Time for a Gold Standard of Use
Fay Twersky of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation believes it is time for the social sector to make better use of best practices in data collection and usage.
Stupid Funder Tricks
Paul Beaudet finishes his series on the funder/grantee relationship by calling on the philanthropic sector to take a critical look at collective bad habits and offering advice on how to maximize the potential of the partnerships all funders forge with their grantees.
Putting Grantees In the Center of Your Map
Paul Beaudet’s second guest post further explores the funder/grantee relationship, focusing on the effect of using strategy to shape funders’ work with grantees.