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Dear Friend,
Red Beans & Rice is a weekly e-mail of interesting articles, funding resources, professional development opportunities and other areas that Cuidiu has come across the previous week related to the nonprofit and philanthropic sector. Each day we receive hundreds of e-mails, RSS feeds and blog postings and this is our attempt to synthesize all of this into the most useful information for you. We look forward to sharing this information with those who we know closely and those whom we have shared only a relationship through e-mail.
Please let us know what information you find most useful and please forward this information to your colleagues, board members and friends. The reason for the name Red Beans & Rice originates from Louie Armstrong and how he signed his letters. According to some he meant it as a kind gesture to grow stronger.
John Brothers, Principal
Cuidiu Consulting
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Mind Food
Articles and Ideas Advancing Our Work
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Not Just Housing Construction: Habitat for Humanity Offers Innovative Models for Getting Involved"We often talk about the many ways people can do good in the world - how
there isn't just one path to social change, justice, human rights,
environmental sustainability, but rather a multitude of ways people can
lend a hand, a voice, or an idea."
'Cash for Clunkers' Slows Car Donations to CharitiesAs feared, donated vehicles are lessening, "It's not hard to imagine why -- a $3,500 or $4,500 voucher is certainly
more appetizing to the cash-strapped recession-era new car shopper than
a tax writeoff come year's end." Everything You Wanted to Know About Nonprofits & Committees, Part I"Successful committee use begins with understanding the basics of a
board versus non-board committee and a standing versus ad hoc
committee. "
FSG Report Identifies Shared Approaches to Performance, Outcome, and Impact MeasurementFSG Social Impact Advisors founded in 1999 as Foundation
Strategy Group by Mark Kramer and Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter.
FSG is dedicated to accelerating social progress by advancing the practice of philanthropy and corporate social responsibility. |
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Resource Nuggets
Funding and Resource Information to Fill Your Tank |
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Field Stuff
Templates, Books, Tools and Products from the Field |
Top Ten Social Media PresentationsSenate and House Divergence in FY2010 Appropriations for Nonprofits
Based on discussions at a March 2009
symposium, offers policy guidance on turnaround strategies that address
underlying causes of low performance, provide resources for
transformative change, improve mutual accountability, and support
collaboration.
Investing in Sustainable Community Change: A Funder's Guide to Community CoachingProvides an overview of how community coaching
can help sustain community and organizational change and the roles
funders can play. Discusses critical elements, including commitment to
a common vision, a learning culture, and clear rules of engagement.
Facing the Future: Financing Productive SchoolsSynthesizes the School Finance Redesign
Project's findings on policy options for redesigning the system to
focus resources on promoting student learning. Calls for student
count-based funding, integrated data collection, innovation, and
accountability.
The Strong Field Framework: A Guide and Toolkit for Funders and Nonprofits Committed to Large-Scale Impact
"Field
building is a critical strategy for social change", this toolkit
provides the strategy to assess the strengths and needs of your field
to ensure your work is more effective and has a lasting impact.
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Checking the Boxes
Information to Help You Look Under The Hood |
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Hottest Funding Opportunities |
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Hottest Job Opportunities
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- Corporate Relations Director National Kidney Foundation, NY
- Executive Director Bike Works, Seattle, WA
- President /San Rafael Chamber of Commerce, San Rafael, CA
- Executive Director The Healing Garden, Harvard, MA
- Financial Analyst New York University, New York
- CEO, Three River's Workforce Investment Board, Inc, Pittsburgh
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FEATURE ARTICLE
Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921-2009
The Olympian Force Behind a Revolution
"Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, a member of a political dynasty who devoted
her life to improving the welfare of mentally disabled people and
founded the Special Olympics to showcase their abilities, died Tuesday
at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass. She had had strokes during the
past year, a family spokesman said.
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"In the 1950s, as executive vice president of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
Foundation, she shifted the organization's focus from Catholic
charities to research on the causes of mental retardation and humane
ways to treat it. In 1963, the foundation, which had been established
in honor of a brother killed in World War II, published fitness
standards and tests for people with intellectual disabilities that
became widely used.
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