While we often assert that Nonprofit Centers are valuable assets to the communities they serve, the tragedy in Japan has reminded us just how true that is. The Sendai Miyagi NPO Center in Sendai, Japan is located in one of the epicenters of the devastating earthquake. In its aftermath, the NPO Center has become a de facto lifeline for that ravaged community. As you can see from their web site, the Center is serving as a critical resource to help people find lost loved ones, access basic social services, and coordinate the...
Business 3.0 – Not Business as Usual
Saturday, April 2, 2011
10:00AM 5:00PM
Palace of Fine Arts Theater
3301 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
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In 2007 a group of Carbondale, Colorado residents had a vision that an empty elementary school building could become a dynamic community resource filled with artist studios, social service offices, and meeting space for organizations, businesses, neighborhood groups and environmentalists of all kinds. With the town's vision and ongoing support, a broad partnership grew that included a local developer, an architect, a community development corporation, a local bank, and a social entrepreneurship fund. Rather than start from scratch, this group decided to see if anyone else had tried this idea and what they could learn from them.
This post is from Philanthropy411, which is currently covering the Fall Conference for Community Foundations conference with the help of a blog team. This is a guest post by China Brotsky, Senior Vice-President at Tides.
The most compelling session I have attended so far was "Innovating to Make and Keep Equity and Diversity as a Priority," organized by James Head from the San Francisco Foundation and the Race & Equity in Philanthropy Group. What moved me was the straight talk about the elephant of racism in so many rooms in communities and philanthropy itself. No empty platitudes. We learned that we all need to understand our own context to be effective – whether it's a reality where no one ever says the word racism or we've said so much and still haven't solved the problem. There are so many roads to change.
Tides is pleased to participate in the 2010 Community Foundations Fall Conference in Charlotte, NC. Be sure to check out one of two sessions where Tides will present on innovative shared space and services for nonprofits, and stop by Exhibit hall Booth #401 to say hello! We hope to see you in Charlotte.
"Running the business of this thing called 'Justice' is extremely difficult," proclaimed Lateefah Simon, Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights during her panel discussion at the Craigslist Nonprofit Boot Camp this past Saturday. I had the opportunity – as did many local nonprofit supporters, professionals, and entrepreneurs – to see her and a mixture of other social justice and community leaders at this convening. The day was themed around "Empowering Communities." I went to get a pulse on what these leaders and our communities are working on, talking about and thinking about. From the people I engaged with and the workshops I attended, I concluded that the buzz words of the day were: community building, social media, and collaboration.
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As the nation's largest fiscal sponsor, Tides takes its leadership role seriously. That’s why we have acted as the host of the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors for the past six years and why we’re proud to promote the newly developed Guidelines for Fiscal Sponsorship. Congratulations to Tides’ Jane Levikow, who serves as the chair of NNFS, and the other members of the NNFS steering committee who have contributed to this important milestone for...
Fiscal sponsorship is practiced across the country in dynamic ways by dedicated organizations that believe social innovators should be more concerned with achieving their missions than with establishing and maintaining the administrative infrastructure of an organization. Yet, as an emerging field, fiscal sponsorship can raise questions of regulatory compliance for funders and programs struggling to understand the true nature of the relationship between a fiscal...
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