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
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 [...]
Here’s Why I Like Foundation Communicators!
During the four years I served as a head of a 10-year, $30 million grantmaking initiative at the Chicago Community Trust, I attended my fair share of both local and national meetings with program officers. Contrasting that experience with the past two Communications Network conferences in New York and Chicago, I have found that communication [...]
Conference Engagement 2.0
While conferences notoriously consume inordinate amounts of resources and energy, it’s hard to imagine anything will ever replace the connections made possible when folks gather in the same place to share common interests.
That’s why PhilanthroMedia has spent the past year pioneering what we call Conference Engagement 2.0. Our best test case occurred over the [...]
Diavlogs Capture Notable Insights
If you are like the Communications Network, your constituents can and should be your best advocates. If you are smart like ComNet’s Bruce Trachtenberg, you give them the microphone.
Over the past six months, Bruce has given me the honor of interviewing some of his best and brightest on the intersection between communications and foundation impact. [...]
If a Research Report Falls in the Forest…
One of the ways that foundations help advance social issues is to commission research. However, to fully take advantage of the opportunity that high-quality research has to offer — both to advance issues and demonstrate the foundation as a leader in topic areas — there are more effective ways to get attention than simply posting [...]
Whose Job Is It to Speak Up for Philanthropy?
In this conversation, Phil Buchanan, President of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and Communications Network Contributor Susan Herr, explore attacks on philanthropy, what is motivating these charges, and why it is important for more of us to challenge broad stereotypes that aren’t based on evidence.
In addition to serving as President for the Center for Effective [...]
