I attended Grassroots Grantmakers' "On the Ground" event in Cleveland this past week. The Cleveland Foundation's Neighborhood Connections program served as a terrific case study for engaging everyday people in community improvement. Its approach draws heavily from the community engagement and network leadership practices developed by Bill Traynor and Frankie Blackburn of Trusted Space Partners. [...]
Author: tonymacklin
Philanthropoid working at the intersection of meaningful giving and community results. Excited when everyday people lead community improvement, and when everyday people are recognized for their generosity.
Meet the Normal Foundations
Foundation Source recently released its third annual report on the activities of private foundations. It is based on the transactions of 714 foundations that use Foundation Source's administrative services. Its 2012 report showed that its foundation clients were a pretty good proxy for the larger field of foundations under $50 million in assets. Fundraisers should pay [...]
Are Your Trustees Satisfied?
I’m always interested in why donors choose different means of formalizing their giving and the ever-expanding set of options they have to do so. Because of that, I read the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s recent report What Donors Value: How Community Foundations Can Increase Donor Satisfaction, Referrals, and Future Givingand related blog posts. In a [...]
What Does Your Community’s Social Economy Look Like?
What if you convened a group as diverse as codefest winners, giving circle donors, librarians, start-up leaders, and fundraisers? And what if you asked them to describe all the ways they spend time and money for the public good? We did just that in Pittsburgh a couple weeks ago. The Philanthropy Forum at GSPIA and [...]
Tony Macklin 