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How to Find the Activation Point
One of the most vexing problems for anyone involved in social change is getting people to take action—especially those who say they already care deeply about specific issues or causes. In this webinar,...
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How to Avoid Getting Hung Up Framing Messages
A lot of the work you do as foundation and nonprofit communicators revolves around getting attention for the issues and causes that drive the work of your respective organizations. But have you ever...
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Report Describes How Foundations Are Using New Media and Urges Them to Use It...
After nearly a year of blogrolling, wikifying, podcasting, Facebooking, and good old fashioned talking with dozens of philanthropy communication pros, my colleague Cynthia Scheiderer and I have...
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Session Materials: How Web 2.0 Is Changing Foundation Communications
The Communications Network in late 2007 launched an extensive study of how Web 2.0 technologies are being employed at foundations across the country. At the Fall 2008 conference, David Brotherton and...
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Session Materials: The Merging of Communications and Program Activities Online
Just as new and emerging digital technologies are changing the nature of foundation communications, these new communications tools are also changing grantmaking at some foundations. In some respects,...
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Session Materials: Survey of Nonprofit Communications Effectiveness
How well do nonprofits communicate? To find out, Cause Communications partnered with Princeton Survey Research Associates International on a study of 500 nonprofit organizations. According to the...
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May the Good Feelings Continue
Last August the Communications Network asked several hundred people who work in communications for private and community foundations to tell us how they feel about their jobs, the contributions they...
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Where Have All the Eyeballs Gone?
If you think you’ve got a lock on visitors to your website, here’s some eye-opening news from the polling site FiveThirtyEight about fickle web consumption habits. (Thanks to Network member David Irons...
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New Service Helps You Stay On Top of Foundation Response to Economic Slide
Those who appreciate how in today’s 24/7 world the latest information is never more than a mouse-click away will want to check out a feature just added to the Foundation Center’s website. Called a...
View ArticleWant to Know If Your Communications Are Working? We Can Help
The Communications Network has just released Are We There Yet? A Communications Evaluation Guide. The title pretty much says it all — if you don’t know how your communications are doing, how can you...
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Only Visionaries Can Spot a Sea Change
Our resident jargon maven, Tony Proscio, dropped by the other day to leave his comments on two words recently submitted to our Jargon Finder: visionary and sea change. Visionary “Visionary” used to be...
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A Study In Contrasts About How to Get People Talking (Or Not)
The recent public releases of two entirely different studies and recommendations of how to do philanthropy more effectively stand in interesting contrast with one another, especially if one of the...
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Why Let the Facts Spoil Your Beliefs
In his New York Times column today, Nicholas D. Kristof offers some thoughts that should chill the hearts of any of us whose work involves trying to make convincing, cogent, and well-fashioned...
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Are Your Communications Working? Here’s How You Can Find Out
Do you know if your communications are working? Have you ever asked? If the answer to both questions is “no,” you’re not alone. Few foundation communicators claim they regularly – if at all – formally...
View ArticleWe Asked: “What’s Being Done for Children?” 100-Plus Voices Answered
Guest Post: Julee Newberger, Online Communications Associate, Annie E. Casey Foundation One of the great things about Web 2.0 and social networking is how they let those outside foundations speak to...
View ArticleOnline Service Helps Keep Key Audiences Current On Nonprofit Research
Have you ever struggled to find up-to-date information on topics relating to the work your foundation is supporting? Have you done countless Internet searches hoping you can locate what you need? Or...
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Funders Not Only Ask Grantees, “How Are We Doing?” But Sharing What They...
When the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) began conducting surveys of grantees in 2003, foundations primarily used the findings to learn what their grant recipients liked about doing business...
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To Support Knowledge-Based Grantmaking, Teagle Embraces High-Tech Communications
W. Robert Connor may be a classics professor at heart – he taught ancient Greek literature and history at Princeton University – but today he spends most of his time thinking about the future, not the...
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Ask First, Then Design
Throughout the 14 months it spent on the redesign, the team responsible for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s new Web site stayed singly focused on making sure the end product would meet the...
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To Publish Or Not Publish Its Annual Report, Lumina Foundation Doesn’t Guess...
At the 2008 Fall Communications Network Annual conference, one of the most spirited discussions focused on the question about whether foundation annual reports are a thing of the past. While arguments...
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