An Exploration of Service Learning
Earlier this year we teamed up with The Phoenix Project to look at the state of service learning. For those unfamiliar with service learning, it’s where a service project is integrated with classroom learning. This was a great opportunity for us to get a glimpse of how young people are actively engaged in strengthening their communities, and how their universities and professors are supporting those efforts and relating them to academic study.
We wanted to learn more about not only participation levels but what’s working and what’s not in service learning among three groups of participants: students, university faculty and staff, and community organizations.
We’ve shared a bit about our service learning conversations and what we learned at http://craigslistfoundation.org/servicelearning.html. We hope it contributes to the evolution of service learning.
New Podcast: Build a Balanced Life in a Workaholic World
Are you busy beyond belief? Trying to balance your work and life, yet always coming up short? Tired of never having enough time, energy, or focus to get the results you want? If so, you are ready for a change. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage in some playful interactive practices to help you feel more balanced: Discover what a balanced work/life really means to you with a quick self-assessment. Learn three secrets to balancing your professional and personal life. Find out which tips and tools work best, starting now!
Podcast info: Download the mp3 (20mb, mp3) or subscribe to our iTunes stream.
New Podcast: The Charismatic Organization
How do some organizations attract top board members, donors, and political support while others struggle, despite their worthy purposes? This presentation shares the secrets of successful nonprofits that know how to build and use social capital to survive and thrive. Authors Shirley Sagawa and Deb Jospin share the findings from their new book, The Charismatic Organization.
Podcast info: Download the mp3 (22mb, mp3) or subscribe to our iTunes stream.
Hooray for the 2009 Purpose Prize Winners
Very cool. Congratulations to our friend David Roll at Lex Mundi and all the other fellows and social innovation winners!
“This year’s winners of The Purpose Prize, a $100,000 award for social innovators in their encore careers, are using a new stage of life to do extraordinary things to improve life for millions of people worldwide…”
Check out more here:
http://www.encore.org/prize
New Podcast: Crissy Field
Hear how a cross-sector partnership healed the land. Through shared purpose, bold vision, and intensive community involvement, Crissy Field was transformed in 2001. At the core of this acclaimed restoration project was the partnership between the National Park Service and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, which continue to work seamlessly together and with the community to improve and preserve the Golden Gate National Parks.
Podcast info: Download the mp3 (20mb, mp3) or subscribe to our iTunes stream.
New Podcast: Leadership from the Inside Out
Hear from three nationally recognized, leadership development programs breaking new ground on approaches to developing leaders and organizations that focus on collaboration. Representative from the Haas Jr Foundation Flexible Leadership Program, CompassPoint and the Rockwood Leadership Institute reflect on their own experiences with leadership and share cutting edge trends in leadership development in the nonprofit world, coaching models and transformational leadership approaches. Understand the significance of leading from the inside out and personal leadership development in the context of nonprofit work and social justice service.
Presenters: Linda Wood, Amanda Berger, and Marla Cornelius
Podcast info: Download the mp3 (18mb, mp3) or subscribe to our iTunes stream.
America’s Giving Challenge
The Case Foundation, Causes, and Parade Publications have partnered on America’s Giving Challenge – a way for you to win money for the causes you care most about! Since the start of the competition on October 7 (runs through November 6) over $850,000 in donations has been raised for more than 6,500 causes! Make sure you get in on the action - here are a few details:
- Giving Challenge participants will have the opportunity to compete for daily and overall awards – ranging from $500 to $50,000 – based on the number of donations to their cause. The minimum donation an individual may give is $10.
- The Causes on Facebook application is the technology platform for the Giving Challenge. Nonprofit organizations and individuals who wish to raise money by becoming a “cause champion” will have the opportunity to leverage their existing presence on Facebook or create a new cause to participate.
- Anyone can donate to a Giving Challenge cause – Facebook membership is not required.
Go to americasgivingchallenge.com to get started.
New Podcast: Measuring Success and Impact
In this session, GreatNonprofits’ Shari Ilsen and Zazengo’s Vicki Saunders showcase the latest trends on the web related to tracking impact and measuring results. Learn how to find out what your supporters saying about you and what actions are they taking.
Podcast info: Download the mp3 (10mb, mp3) or subscribe to our iTunes stream.
New Podcast: Preventing Homelessness and Providing Hope
Learn about the Family Eviction Prevention Collaborative (FEPCO), a nationally recognized project that helps families maintain affordable housing by preserving long-term tenancies and preventing homelessness through the provision of rental assistance and long-term housing advocacy to low-income families facing evictions in San Francisco. FEPCO’s primary goal is to build a cohesive community of service providers to streamline the rental assistance intake process for low-income, at-risk families and individuals in San Francisco, thus avoiding duplication of services and eliminating multiple program visits for the client.
Presenters: Jose Cartagena, Karen Erickson, and Cindy Ward
Podcast info: Download the mp3 (15mb, mp3) or subscribe to our iTunes stream.
New Podcast: Shaping the Future by Searching the Past
Nonprofit leaders can learn much from the 400-year history of what we now call “the nonprofit sector” in America. Philanthropy and nonprofits have powerfully shaped American life and history. In this session, Michael O’Neill draws 10 lessons from this history that nonprofits and other organizations that work alongside them can use in building the future and the community.
Podcast info: Download the mp3 (21mb, mp3) or subscribe to our iTunes stream.
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