The Power of Shared Purpose: A Core Concept of Extraordinary Small Nonprofits / NonProfit Quarterly Zuckerberg and Chan Pledge Nearly $45 Billion to ‘Improving This World’ Chronicle of Philanthropy Goodwill Makes It Easy for Shoppers to Donate Goods by Mail — for Free - Chronicle of Philanthropy HEINEKEN USA Becomes First Brewer to Join The Recycling Partnership [...]
Art Donors Increasingly Giving to Smaller Nonprofits Philanthropy News Digest ViiV Healthcare Awards Innovative Grants for HIV Programs Focused on MSM Youth / CSR Wire Looking Back at the War on Poverty: A Conversation with Sheldon Danziger - NonProfit Quarterly Should Every City have a Chief Philanthropy Officer? By Steven Yenzer / Inside Philanthropy Donations to Largest U.S. [...]
A Tipping Point on Evidence-Based Policymaking More and more, governments are turning to data to answer a crucial question: What works? By Susan K. Urahn / Governing.com What Could a City Fund With the $180 Million That Wayward Military Blimp Cost? By Michael Grass / GovExec EPA Kicks Off Energy Star Day with Event Streamed to Thousands of Students [...]
Nonprofit Aims to Give Charities $100 Million Worth of Marketing Help by 2020 Peyton Rowe has a "big, hairy, audacious goal": deliver $100 million in free marketing services to charities by 2020. By Rebecca Koenig / Chronicle of Philanthropy CA Technologies and NCMEC Renew Partnership and Focus on Missing Children CSR Wire Diversity is Critical to the [...]
The Retirement Tsunami Government workers are retiring in waves and communities who don’t prepare could affect their ability to provide services and attract businesses. By Robert Barkin / American City & County Instead of Fighting, Some Cities Team Up With Airbnb and Uber By Tod Newcombe / Governing.com 'Rebuild By Design' Named Most Groundbreaking Federal Competition U.S. Department of [...]
World Bank Sees 'Extreme' Poverty Falling Below 10 Percent Philanthropy News Digest Schwab Report Shows Where Donors Gave $1 Billion in Fiscal 2015 By Alex Daniels / Chronicle of Philanthropy Digital Annual Reports Click With Donors NonProfit Times International Red Cross Warns of Budget Shortfall Philanthropy News Digest U.S. Chamber Foundation Names Winners of 16th Annual [...]
De Blasio program aims to cut a million tons of emissions from city buildings Politico HUD Makes $1.9 Billion in Grants Available For Homeless Programs U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development #LocalGovSolutions: “With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility” By Kent Wyatt / ELGL L.A. County merging three health-related departments into mega agency Los Angeles Times The Next Big [...]
Corporate Giving Stable, Expected to Remain Steady, Survey Finds / Philanthropy News Digest Grants Roundup: $75-Million Commitment From Microsoft to Expand Youth Computer-Science Education Other Awards Include... By Eden Stiffman / Chronicle of Philanthropy #GivingTuesday and Year-End Fundraising: How to Do Both By Caryn Stein , Vice President, Communications and Content, Network for Good Wealthy Women, Big Giving: The [...]
The New Tool Helping Cities Build Sustainably Daniel C. Vock/Governing.com Former U.S. CIO Kundra on smart cities, engaged citizens By Jake Williams / StateScoop How New York City Is Mainstreaming Data-Driven Governance Stephen Goldsmith/Governing.com Census seeing dividends from production based hiring model Federal News Radio States Work to Help People With Disabilities Find Work SLGov.com [...]
2015 Bold Awards Recognize Government Innovators NextGov Can Yelp Help Government Win Back the Public's Trust? The popular review site is giving public employees a place to directly engage with citizens. Whether that improves services or trust remains to be seen. By Tod Newcombe / Governing.com Pittsburgh Launches 'Inclusive Innovation' Roadmap Pittsburg Post-Gazette Governing Institute’s [...]