Special Feature:
 What Happens When
Plagiarism Strikes |
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
NEW Article:
7 Things Schools and
Hospitals Can Do to Make Their Communities Amazing Places to
Live |
Healthcare and
Education are the cornerstones of our communities. What can happen when we stop
seeing them as "problems to be solved" and start seeing them as opportunities
to turn our communities into healthy, educated, vibrant places to live?
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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
Create More Community Benefit |
Everyone hates the fact that
competition for funds pervades our work. But is it possible funders are
actually creating that competition? Check out Hildy's blog:
• 11 Ways
Funders Can Avoid CompetitionCLICK HERE
• 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,
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For more on Taylor Mali, head to his
website, where you can buy his poetry and CDsCLICK
HERE
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