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Professional Services Clients "Pay it Forward"
Everyone's familiar with the "pay it forward" concept popularized by the book and movie by the same name, in which one repays the good deeds one has received by doing good things for other people. At GivingNet, we apply the pay it forward concept to our professional services engagements, in which clients agree (in their contracts) that they have benefitted from our work with former clients, and that future clients can also benefit from the learnings of current engagements. It's a win-win for everyone, and a hallmark of our network.
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Project:
Healthy Living Initiative Funding Strategy
Total Project Cost:
$40,000
Delphia Duckens, Senior Vice President Fund Development, Girl Scouts of the USA |
| Paying it forward: Having long been a leader on research and programs for girls' healthy living, GSUSA decided to commission an environmental scan of programs and funders to closely connect its core competencies to programs that excite girls, volunteers and funders. With fresh new marketplace information, they were able to set their strategy and begin conversations with potential supporters. More... | |
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Project:
Technology Initiative
Total Project Cost:
$4,100,000
Sid Hartman, COO
Marin Community Foundation |
Paying it forward:
Nearly five years ago many of us joined together to address a daunting set of information technology challenges. Through the collaboration of 52 community foundations contributing $4.1 million and countless hours of staff time, we created a series of integrated and prioritized technology development activities to build community foundation readiness, capacity and infrastructure. More... | |
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Project:
Fiscal Sponsorship
Total Project Cost:
$15,000
Allan Benamer, Executive Director
socialmarkets
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Paying it forward:
Investors -- and donors are investors -- want to know what returns their money promotes. Calculating the social return on investment (SROI) for donors is difficult and time-consuming, but may be the driver for increasingly demanding donors to give more, and more strategically. More... | |
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New Media Strategy/Planning/Content Development
Total Project Cost:
$25,000
Tim Walter, CEO
Association of Small Foundations |
Paying it forward:
We need to change our messages to suit both the medium and the audience...There are new audiences interested in us if we can only learn to reach them using new formats. More... | |
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Project:
P!N Implementation
Total Project Cost:
$12,000
Ann Fergemann, Vice President, Donor Relations
Kalamazoo Community Foundation
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Paying it forward:
The power of expanding your mailing list and cross referencing it with wealth appending data is that you greatly broaden your horizon of prospects with the capability to engage with the foundation. But we learned that the power of combining that with CRM capabilities is that you ensure that those prospects have the affinity to engage. Capability and affinity -- that's the state of the art.
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Project:
Profitability Analysis/
Business Planning
Total Project Cost:
$62,000
Heather Eason, Incoming CEO
Arkansas Community Foundation
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Paying it forward:
"Pricing policy changes can have surprising and unintended consequences. For example, what we thought were 'problem' products, i.e. scholarships, actually became more profitable, and what we thought were 'simple, efficient' products, like designated funds, in reality are extremely inefficient to administer, and therefore costly." More... | |
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Project:
Strategic Planning
Total Project Cost:
$8,000
Kathy Whelpley, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, Governance and Special Projects
The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
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Paying it forward:
Project assessment is hard. What if you knew you could measure effectiveness of projects to improve donor services with 11 metrics? Grantee services with 8 metrics? Operating efficiencies with 8 metrics? An assessment framework now exists to let you do just that.. More... | |
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