“Building Community Capacity: The Potential of Community Foundations” tells how small community foundations can get bigger, stronger, and more useful to their communities. This small book, endorsed as essential reading in the field, summarizes the […]
As we said after Katrina, foundations have many useful assets – purchasing power, influence and leadership, knowledge of communities, and development know-how – all of which can be used creatively to aid a more equitable reconstruction of Gulf Coast communities wrecked by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. […]
There is a certain allure in the many kinds of legislative proposals that link pay to performance in the social services. Some are getting serious consideration at state and federal levels, but we should be […]
Design your nonprofit programs to achieve their intended effects, and to make the kind of progress suggested in your organization’s mission statement. Some useful titles: Building Organizational Capacity: A Simple Useful Framework Results of an […]
Create interesting and usable evaluation designs that produce interesting and usable answers that can strengthen the organization, advance its mission, and gain support. Useful titles include: Wanted: Better Evaluation Practices for a Better Philanthropy How […]
Support communities and their people to develop their potential, overcome barriers, leverage their assets, and create a more just and equitable world. Some useful titles: The Assets Model of Community Development Neighborhood Self-Help: Some Lessons […]
Use your assets to support your causes, move them along, make them stronger, move the needle, and achieve the results they want to make. Some useful titles: Building Community Capacity: The Potential of Community Foundations […]
Why this book I began this project by asking the Google, “How can I change the world and make a million bucks by selling e-books.” The Google told me, “What sells is Sex, Love, Power, […]
The importance of building organizational capacity 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, guts, […]
From the e-book, How to Show Off Your Wicked Strong Sexy and Incredibly Effective Nonprofit / by Steven E. Mayer, Ph.D. / Chief Evaluation Strategist / Effective Communities Project / (c) 2020 Nonprofit program benefits Every […]
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