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A Quick Word With…
A Quick Word With… is our ongoing series in which people from foundations of all sizes and types tell us about themselves, their work and where they draw their inspiration. This installment features Fred Silverman, VP, Marketing & Communications, Marin Community Foundation.
It’s Not You, It’s Not me…It’s Both of Us
Guest Post: Minna Jung, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Vice Chair, Communications Network
Joined by co-conspirators Kristen Grimm of Spitfire Strategies, and Patrick McCabe of GYMR LLC, I helped lead a session at the recent Network annual conference in Boston about how foundations and communications consultants/firms can work together more successfully. The session involved storytelling (with incriminating evidence omitted) and then the foundation folks sat on one side, the consultants/firms on the other, to come up with “Rules of the Road” for how to help the relationship be as successful as possible from the get-go. And then we shared. It was kind of a blast, and I was completely unwilling to remove my devil’s tail for the rest of the day. (The horns gave me a bit of a headache.)
BOSTON 2011: What We Saw and Heard (VIDEO)
Guest Post: Susan Herr, PhilanthroMedia
Got 15 minutes? Take a look at the collection of videos from our recent Fall Communications Network Conference in Boston that follow.
What’s Ahead for the Communications Network?
Guest Post: Rebecca Arno, Vice President of Communications, The Denver Foundation and Chair, Communications Network
(Rebecca Arno started her two-year term as the Network’s chair at the Fall 2011 Conference.)
With annual memberships at 400-plus, an active listserv, dynamic on-line content, and nearly 300 attendees at our Boston conference, the Communications Network is stronger than ever.
Why We Care and Why We Don’t — It’s a Question We’re Still Asking
An article in the Oct. 1, 2011, Sunday’s New York Times raised an important concern that undoubtedly creeps into the thinking of foundation and nonprofit communicators every so often: Why do people care about some issues and not others? And more so, how do you overcome the likelihood of “psychic numbing” – people turning off their feelings rather than rallying to action because they feel some problems are too big to help solve?
We raised similar questions ourselves two years ago in a webinar that featured a discussion with with Paul Slovic, a psychologist at the University of Oregon, and one of the experts featured in the recent Times article.
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