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What Happens
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What happens when one of the most
popular articles at a website is stolen outright? When someone puts his name on
that article, and publishes it as his own in a national magazine?
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And which article was it? Why
Boards Micromanage and How to Get Them to Stop CLICK HERE
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7 Things
Schools and Hospitals Can Do to Make Their Communities Amazing Places to
Live |
Are Healthcare
and Education really just "problems to be solved?" Or do these issues provide
opportunities to build healthy, educated, vibrant communities? CLICK HERE
Use it Today:
Board Giving
Policy |
If board members already give of
their time, should they have to give money also? If they get others to give,
should they have to give themselves? YES!
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Community-Driven Brain Teaser:
High Expectations:
Getting Beyond the Watchdog Role |
As you start aiming your work at
creating the future of your community, new ways of seeing often catch you by
surprise. So here is this month's Brain Teaser:
Is
there more to a board member's life than just oversight? Can't we do better
than that? Is being the watchdog all we can really expect from ourselves?
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more
Best of the Blog:
11 Ways Funders Can
Encourage Collaboration |
Many of us dream of great
collaborations. But too often what we see instead are more like marriages of
convenience.
How can funders encourage efforts
that are truly collaborative in spirit? Check out Hildy's Blog for some
ideas!
• 11 Ways
Funders Can Encourage CollaborationCLICK HERE
Cool Distractions
Taylor
Mali |
Are you passionate about education?
Could you use a laugh? Then check out Taylor Mali - poet, comedian, teacher,
education advocate. You will laugh out loud, and you will hoot and holler in
support, right there at your computer!
• What Teachers
MakeSee it
here
• Like You
KnowSee it
here
We saw Taylor Mali when he
highlighted the KIPP Schools' national convention this year. We have been
honored to be working with KIPP, and it was hard to believe anything could top
the energized day we spent with the boards of their 50+ schools. But listening
to an orchestra filled with kids who had been written off by our public school
systems, and watching the energy of the teachers who help those kids educate
themselves - well if anything is a testimony to the value of high expectations,
it is KIPP's success rate. (If you are interested in learning more about KIPP,
Learn More
Here )
For more on Taylor Mali, head to his
website, where you can buy his poetry and CDsCLICK
HERE
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