Results List
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How to Use Blogs and Other Means to Share Ideas: Tips From Experts
By Marty Michaels. Blogs, podcasts, streaming video, viral distribution – the possibilities seem endless. Add to this the fact that many people say they feel barraged with information, and it can be difficult for grant makers to determine the best way to craft communications efforts…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Finding Their Voice: Grant makers seek new ways to share stories
By Marty Michaels. Grant makers seek new ways to share stories. Jonathan Fanton has solved a conundrum that plagues many nonprofit leaders: He’s found a way to be in many places at the same time. Read the full article on The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s website.…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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A Big Foundation Uses New Technology to Open Windows on Disasters-and Resilience
By Marty Michaels. The Open Society Institute, in New York, has emerged as a leader among grant makers for its extensive use of multimedia communications-including online audio and video-to educate the public about the issues at the top of its agenda. Read the full article…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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As We Enter 2008, a Look Back Shows Policy Gains for Atlantic Grantees
The end of one year and the start of the next is a traditional time for looking both back and forward, and a good time to check in with readers of this column – an unusual experiment in philanthropy that we started in July, a…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Research Forum on Quality After-School Programs for Middle School Students
In November, 2007 the Center sponsored the second in an on-going series of research forums in which after-school practitioners learn from leading scholars about pressing issues in their field. The topic was achieving quality and maximizing outcomes for middle school students who attend after-school programs.…
Author: The Center for After-School Excellence
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NI elderly to get commissioner
An older people’s commissioner is to be appointed by next year to defend the rights and interests of the elderly in Northern Ireland. The announcement was made by the first and deputy first ministers. Grace Henry, director of Help the Aged in Northern Ireland, said…
Author: BBC News
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Communities Fighting for Rights in Northern Ireland: You’re Not “On Your Own”
When Gerard McCarten, a butcher from North Belfast, steeled up his courage to testify before the local health authority about the suicide of his son Danny two years ago, the officials he was dealing with got up and opened the windows in the room onto…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Fashion Police vs. Traffic Police
Thousands of motorbikes sweving at high speed and near misses at every corner can make the roaring streets of Hanoi a terrifying place for the uninitiated. But for Vietnamese teenagers like Trinh Thanh Van, the motorized maelstrom is a party on wheels. It’s 8 p.m.…
Author: Time Magazine
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One School Shows Prevention Requires More Than a Health Class
Inside the Arts and TechnologyAcademy in Northeast Washington, you’ll find an antidote to the spread of HIV and AIDS, along with ways to reduce teen pregnancy, curb substance abuse and quell violence. While students at the public charter elementary are learning basic skills, they are…
Author: Washington Post
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Coming clean
The Philadelphia Foundation was one of the last places Nancy Burd thought she would work. As head of the Philadelphia office of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a foundation grantee, she knew firsthand that it did not have a good reputation. But during the interview process…
Author: Financial Times
