Council on Foundations

#FunderTech Activities at COF 2012, Los Angeles

The Future is Mobile: Leveraging the Power in Everyone's Hand
Monday April 30, 10:00am - 11:30am
Gold Ballroom 3, 1st Floor

From Egypt to East Los Angeles, changemakers are generating enormous impact with mobile phone strategies. How can foundations support grantees in using mobile applications to meet their mission? Join practitioners and funder colleagues for hands-on demos and group discussion.

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When Good Ideas Go Bad

By John Hoffman on 23 September 2011 - 2:40pm

Learning how to celebrate your failures. Read more about When Good Ideas Go Bad

Tags: beth kanter, foundation, philanthropy, Social Media, nonprofit technology, Council on Foundations, community foundation, MomsRising

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Partnerships, Philanthropy...and a Pigfish

By Timothy C. Wu on 5 May 2009 - 4:38pm

“You in government are looking to the foundation sector to do more. We in foundations are looking for government to do more. And people across this country are looking to both foundations and government and telling us that we both have to do more.” With those words, Carol Larson, President and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, summarized the keynote discussion by Melody Barnes, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, at the 60th annual Council on Foundations conference in Atlanta, Georgia.