Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2017
Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2017 is an annual industry forecast about the ways we use private resources for public benefit.
Foundation Center is pleased to again partner with Lucy to offer the Blueprint as a GrantCraft guide. The Blueprint provides an overview of the current landscape, points to major trends, and directs your attention to horizons where you can expect some important breakthroughs in the coming year.
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Highlights
- Insight: Big Ideas That Matter for 2017: What is political? What is philanthropic?
- Worksheets: Data, Governance, and Your Organization
- Foresight: Predictions for 2017
- Hindsight: Renovations to Previous Forecasts
- Buzzword Watch
- Glimpses of the Future: Black Lives Matter and Closing Civic Space
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Buzzword Watch 2017 Ah, the buzzword watch. What phrases and ideas will seep into our work lives in the coming year, corrupting our vocabulary and making jargon-haters cringe? All my usual caveats apply. Being a buzzword doesn’t make something good or bad or denote a fleeting or a lasting idea; they are just buzzwords (or are they?) Read more
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Civil Society’s Responsibility to Democracy’s Digital Infrastracture
Today, both our systems of public governance and the processes of civil society are digitally dependent.
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It Really Is About the Infrastructure
Fundamentally, civil society in both physical and digital realms rests on a set of principles— protected as rights in many places (including the U.S.)—of free assembly, free expression, and privacy.
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Calculating Your Organization’s Digital Dependence
Don’t believe that civil society rests upon digital infrastructure? Try this…
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What is Political? What is Philanthropic?
The intermingling of philanthropy and politics in the U.S. presidential election is a compelling case of a time-worn phenomenon (and a global question).
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Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2017 is an annual industry forecast about the ways we use private resources for public benefit.
Foundation Center is pleased to again partner with Lucy to offer the Blueprint as a GrantCraft guide. The Blueprint provides an overview of the current landscape, points to major trends, and directs your attention to horizons where you can expect some important breakthroughs in the coming year.
Tweet about this year's Blueprint using #blueprint17
Highlights
- Insight: Big Ideas That Matter for 2017: What is political? What is philanthropic?
- Worksheets: Data, Governance, and Your Organization
- Foresight: Predictions for 2017
- Hindsight: Renovations to Previous Forecasts
- Buzzword Watch
- Glimpses of the Future: Black Lives Matter and Closing Civic Space