Individual Donor

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 11 pages. Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10003, 800-424-9836, www.foundationcenter.org

http://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/
research/pdf/intlgmiv_highlights.pdf

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

In The Place of the Arts in Multi-focus Foundations, Bruce Sievers writes that the rationale for supporting both the arts and the nonprofit sector as a whole is integrally linked to their capacity to advance pluralism, promote voluntary action, accommodate diversity, and champion individual visions of the public good. “Civil society,” Sievers notes, is increasingly the accepted concept to describe this sphere of social action.

Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 327 pages.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849 French critic and writer

Ready to Lead?

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 33 pages. CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, 731 Market Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA, 94103, (415) 541-9000, www.compasspoint.org

http://www.meyerfoundation.org/downloads/ready_to_lead/ReadytoLead2008.pdf

Arts and Culture in the Metropolis

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 124 pages. RAND Corporation, www.rand.org

www.ncarts.org/elements/docs/RAND%20Metropolis%2007%20includes%20Charlotte.pdf

Smarter Outsourcing for Grantmakers

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2005, 5 pages. TCC Group, 31 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001, (212) 949-0990

http://www.tccgrp.com/pdfs/per_brief_outsourcing.pdf

This paper argues that private companies are not the only organizations outsourcing key functions, but that funders are, as well. Some believe that these external helpers can do the work more efficiently or effectively. The paper asks what types of funders are outsourcing, why they are doing so, and what functions can best be "farmed out."

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 12 pages. Center for Social Media, School of Communications, American University, 3201 New Mexico Avenue NW, Suite 330, Washington, D.C., 20016, (202) 885-3107, www.centerforsocialmedia.org

http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/files/pdf/online_best_practices_in_fair_use.pdf

Trends in Northwest Giving

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2007, 12 pages. Philanthropy Northwest, 2505 Third Avenue, Suite 200, Seattle, WA, 98121,
(206) 443-8430, www.philanthropynw.org

http://www.philanthropynw.org/pressroom/Trends/Trends_FNL.pdf

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 43 pages. Project Streamline, www.projectstreamline.org

http://www.projectstreamline.org/doc/PDF_Report_final.pdf

Understanding Philanthropy

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 198 pages. Published by Indiana University Press, 601 North Morton Street, Bloomington, IN, 47404, (800) 842-6796, www.iupress.indiana.edu

This book presents a new way of thinking about the meaning and mission of philanthropy. Weaving together theoretical explanations with examples of philanthropic action, it advances scholarly debate about philanthropy and offers practitioners a way of explaining the rationale for their nonprofit efforts.