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Peer Learning Group - Youth Development through Sport: How Can We Better Evaluate Our Impact?

Thursday, March 24, 2016
9:30am - 11:30am
Where: 
Center for Healthy Communities
... your experience and best practices on how you’ve thought about, tracked or evaluated your organization’s work, investment and impact.
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Peer Learning Groups
Funding Area 
Youth Sports / RecreationChildren 6-12

In the Know: Building and Sharing Effective Field Scans

Publication date: 
03/01/2014
... did we do before Wikipedia? How did we ever settle debates about which film won the Oscar for “Best Picture” in 1997 ... so you can read the landscape like it’s the palm of your hand, right? But even though you know your house better than ... your assumptions and to do your homework—whether it’s about a new issue you’re hoping to tackle, or an area that ...
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Geo Blog

Rethinking How Grantmakers Support Scale

Publication date: 
05/01/2014

Kathleen Enright, GEO's president and CEO, describes what the organization learned over the course of our Scaling What Works initiative. Ten other contributors offer their perspectives on “scaling what works” — what it means, what it takes to do it right, and what needs to happen to increase the impact of successful solutions to social challenges.

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Publications
Audience 
Corporate Philanthropy / CSRFamily Philanthropy
Topic(s) 
Evaluation

Can the Safety Net Survive the "Idiocy" of Sequestration?

Release Date: 
01/30/2013
... tax deduction” and that “we’re not talking about a cap as proposed by the president in previous ... back, saying that he was “not at liberty to talk about the new budget.” So the administration’s position ... one might divine a hint in Greenblatt’s statements about the current “position of austerity” facing the ...
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News type 
SCG in the News
Topic(s) 
Public Policy & Advocacy

President's Recap - March 2015

Release Date: 
04/02/2015
... Black Zalben; Jonathan Lorenzo Yorba; Paul Vandeventer; Crystal Martinez (Senator Feinstein's Legislative Assistant). ... communities. Click here for my memo to the Committee about this year's trip.
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News type 
Blog
Audience 
Leadership
Topic(s) 
Public Policy & Advocacy

Amgen Foundation Expands The Amgen Biotech Experience, Bringing Total Program Reach To 900,000 High School Students By 2020

Publication date: 
08/25/2017
... and post-test scores; 82 percent of students got new ideas about what happens in science labs; 72 percent of students got new ideas about what science is; 53 percent of students are more ... my students get to experience the joy of discovery first-hand," said Wendy Wooten, biology teacher at Reseda High ...
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Type of resource 
By SCG Members
Topic(s) 
Grantmaking Strategies
Funding Area 
ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITYSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Grantees' Limited Use of Foundations' Social Media

Publication date: 
01/01/2012
While social media is increasingly ubiquitous among foundations and nonprofits, recent research finds that few surveyed grantees are using social media from their foundation funders or their funders’ staff. Those who do are finding foundations’ social media less helpful than other communication resources.
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Type of resource 
Publications
Topic(s) 
Communications

Partner Event - Program Related Investments (PRI): What They Are, Where They're Most Useful, and How to Start Making Them

Tuesday, June 27, 2017
11:30am - 1:00pm
Where: 
San Diego Grantmakers
Attend in person or via Zoom Want to have a hand in helping build a robust sector of the most innovative, ...
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Event type 
Briefings & Discussions

Peer Group - Communications Network LA Chapter: An Evening with the Los Angeles Times

Thursday, January 26, 2017
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Where: 
Los Angeles Times
... editors and columnists from the LA Times, and hear first-hand how to more effectively communicate, share story ideas ... Campaigns Marc Moorghen, Conrad N.
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Event type 
Peer Learning Groups
Topic(s) 
Communications

Be the Duct Tape

Publication date: 
03/01/2014
... a spirit of quirky inventiveness and also because it is about duct tape! Growing up, my Dad provided proof positive ... and it isn’t limited to fixing things. People make just about everything from it – from wallets to prom dresses . ... a detailed understanding of the ever-changing situation at hand. Being the duct tape fits right in with the notion of ...
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Type of resource 
Geo Blog
Audience 
Board / TrusteesEmerging Professionals

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