Supporting foundations and nonprofits to improve lives through the power of smart communications.
May the Good Feelings Continue
Last August the Communications Network asked several hundred people who work in communications for private and community foundations to tell us how they feel about their jobs, the contributions they think they are making, whether senior management appreciated the work they do, along with other questions about what’s likely to happen over the next few years.
What One Foundation Sees Down the Road for the Future of Annual Reports
At the Missouri Foundation for Health, they’ve started down a path that might be the end of business as usual for annual reports. Inspired by discussions at the 2007 Communications Network Fall conference about the need to rethink how foundations report on progress (a topic at the Chicago conference too), the foundation this year completely did away with its print annual report, says Bev Pfeifer-Harms, director of communications. Its fully online version takes viewers on a virtual journey around the state (via a virtual car) so they can hear from foundation grantees about their efforts to improve the health of Missouri’s citizens, especially those in vulnerable communities.
Looking for Session Materials From the Chicago Fall Conference?
If you are looking for presentation materials from the Fall Conference, everything we’re able to share has been posted to the blog (and to our website). See the links here.
Session Materials: Techniques and Lessons of Successful Public Engagement
Leaders in all sectors today, from politics to urban planning to philanthropy, face a cynical and “information-overloaded” public. Each regards the other with skepticism, the public accusing leaders of being “out of touch” and leaders viewing the public as “unable or unwilling to understand the complexity” of the issue at hand.
Session Materials: Survey of Nonprofit Communications Effectiveness
How well do nonprofits communicate? To find out, Cause Communications partnered with Princeton Survey Research Associates International on a study of 500 nonprofit organizations.
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