Community Partners Resources
“I think this is one of the largest convenings of nonprofits in the country.” I overheard this while standing among a crowd at Dreamforce recently, Salesforce’s annual four-day conference that...
You’ve done your research on potential funders. The basics -- guidelines, issue areas and grant cycles -- are understood. And after thoroughly reviewing a foundation’s website, 990s and any other...
It seemed like a match made in heaven: your mission, their money. Maybe you met the program officer at a conference or “Meet the Grantmaker” session and clicked. Or their foundation tends to fund...
Program officers Carrie Harlow from the Ahmanson Foundation and Piper Kamins of the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation visited our offices for a Meet the Funders event for leaders of Community Partners...
Crowdfunding is the hottest trend in fundraising. To help nonprofits take advantage of this new tool, the Chronicle of Philanthropy hosted a live chat with a co-founder of a crowdfunding platform and...
It was 2013 and the nonprofit world was abuzz about the potential for crowdfunding to close budget gaps, fund innovative new programs, and bring new donors into the mix. Fast forward four years...
Nonprofits merge for lots of reasons: successful, smaller-sized organizations may join with a competitor to expand their reach. A larger, more established organization may seek a smaller organization...
The Dinner Party, a Community Partners project since 2012, has been featured on NPR, profiled by CNN, included on a Buzzfeed list, and raised up by celebrity-backed mega-platforms Goop (Gwyneth...
If you’ve ever been tempted to use a random photo you found via google images. If you’ve ever caved to that temptation, rationalizing, ‘it’s just a little nonprofit newsletter, who’s going to care...
Two grant proposals are due by the end of the week. You still need to buy supplies for that workshop next Tuesday. And – aargh!! – can’t forget to secure those corporate sponsorships for your...