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“Building Community Capacity: The Potential of Community Foundations” tells how small community foundations can get bigger, stronger, and more useful to their communities. Endorsed as essential reading in the field, this small book summarizes the [...]
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The “assets model of community development,” as distinct from the “deficits model,” has really caught on in philanthropy in the last 30 years. Articulated first by John McKnight at the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, the [...]
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You hear a lot from funders these days about their hunger for “dashboards” that display the latest information to guide their decision-making. Dashboards have taken over the corporate sector as part of the “business intelligence” [...]
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The importance of organizational capacity building in nonprofit management can hardly be overstated. Just a glance at the attached one–page Framework of Nonprofit Organizational Capacities reveals its essential building blocks. Consider them the muscle, blood, [...]
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…while attracting the supporters, funders, and partners you’ve always wanted…while being the change you want to see […]
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Highway markers, we’ve discovered, make great reading. Posted by state and regional historical societies all along State, US, and Federal highways, they provide lessons and insight into what happened right there, where you’re standing, in [...]
