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Donors of the Future:  12 Key Trends that affect where money comes from, and how it gets given -- See project report for the scan.

The Web as Metaphor:  How features of the web help us understand the new communications environment.

Change at the Core:  What the Digital Age Means for Foundations
One page chart, suggesting why foundations are not immune.

Connected Activism
One pager, adapted from “change at the core”, tracking what the digital age means for foundations funding citizen action initiatives.

What Do You Expect of Institutions in the Digital Age: 
7 key questions to jumpstart a thoughtful conversation about technology’s impact on nonprofit and nonprofit cultures.

Eight Building Blocks for increasing trust and understanding of your foundation.

Seven Key Ways to Build Organization Credibility for your Nonprofit Without Spending a Fortune.

“Managing Up:  When and How?”
Check list of common situations where managers in small foundations need to “manage up” to their Boards.

The New Work of Communications:  Millennium Top Ten Check List

Moving from “Communications as Message” to “Communications as Engagement”:  A Pattern Chart. 


 

 
What's New From Millennium -- The Communications Supercharge

Marcia Sharp’s newest publicatcommunicationssupercharge.jpgion is this just released report detailing how 18 of the country's largest foundations use communications to boost their public policy work. The report outlines ten different strategies used by the foundations to increase the impact of their policy work -- five within the grants component of foundation work, and five that go beyond the grants program. It also looks at who heads the communications function, where that person sits in the foundation, and how the communications programs are structured. The study was conducted by a research team, including Sharp, from the Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy at the University of Southern California. 

-Read the Report