Archive for October, 2009
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…”
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Craig Visits St. Anthony Foundation Tech Lab
Yesterday, Craig and I spent the morning with the great folks at St. Anthony Foundation in the SF Tenderloin.
Inspiring and important community building work going on there! Their Tech Lab is a great model. They are helping bridge the digital divide and enable those in need with some very valuable online time and instruction (from [...]
New Podcast: Current Trends in Volunteer Engagement
Volunteer engagement is constantly evolving. The economy, the political landscape, and available resources all have an impact on how organizations engage and deploy volunteers. This session by Ami Dar and Jennifer Bennett addresses today’s top trends in volunteer engagement, and assess ways in which your organization can best approach these trends to further develop your [...]
Upcoming Events
At Craigslist Foundation, our mission is to connect people to the resources they need to build stronger and healthier communities.
As part of that mission, we like to let you know about a few Bay Area events in October that you may want to check out:
October 22-23 – BizTech Day in San Francisco
October 29 – 2009 [...]
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