This is one of four interviews PhilanthroMedia conducted for the Foundation Center’s Philanthropy News Digest on the art of collaboration.
Collaboration is widely understood to be a strategic option for grantmakers looking to leverage resources and maximize impact. But as Tade Aina, program director of the Higher Education and Libraries program at the Carnegie Corporation [...]
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Carnegie Grantmaker on the Art of Collaboration
Heinz Endowments Promotes User-Generated Content
A few years ago, when people were still using the term “Web 2.0” to describe interactive and user-generated online content, the Communications Network produced a report encouraging foundations to take the plunge. “Come On In the Water’s Fine” said that there was far more to be gained than what some feared would result from not [...]
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Using QR Codes to Link Print and Video Content
These days, being a communications professional in philanthropy probably requires more experimentation than ever before in how you do your work. With so many different ways to reach audiences, and as many challenges at succeeding, there’s both a constant search for the “new new thing” and a willingness to try innovative approaches.
That drive to be [...]
Passion is the Key to Learning Social Media
What can cows teach you about social media?
Okay, so maybe cows aren’t going to teach you anything about social media. But Sylvia Burgos Toftness is so crazy about them that she launched both a grass-fed beef operation and a blog to share all the lessons she is learning.
As you will hear [...]
Program Officers Identified as Effective by Grantees
Highlights: Chris Kabel on Successful Foundation-Grantee Relationships from PhilanthroMedia on Vimeo.
Chris Kabel, program officer at the Northwest Health Foundation, is one of the high-performing program officers profiled in the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s research report, “Working with Grantees: Keys to Success and Five Program Officers Who Exemplify Them.” Through this research, CEP identified four keys [...]
Debating the “Merits” of Jargon
What follows is a post by Bruce Trachtenberg, one of my favorite clients and Executive Director of the Communications Network:
We’re all familiar with the expression “fighting words,” but even I wasn’t prepared for the intensity of the verbal exchange that occurred when Communications Network contributor Susan Herr, and producer of our ongoing series of video [...]
Digital Media is NOT the Same Thing as Digital Distribution
If the past fifteen years has been about disseminating content in new ways (think site design, search engine optimization and social networking) the next fifteen will force fundamental changes in how we produce what we produce. Central to this position — advanced by Jeff Stanger in the most recent episode of the Communication Network’s [...]
Crowdsourcing Multi-Media Content at Conferences
There are few things I love better than seeing techniques we hone in the nonprofit sector adapted by the for-profit sector. Even better is when I have the privilege of developing and implementing such a technique myself! Last year, PhilanthroMedia led the Gorilla Engagement Team for the Communications Network’s 2009 Annual Conference in [...]
