Greg Goldman

Writing federal grant proposals can be tough - especially when it comes to writing goals, defining outcomes, and showing how you will demonstrate your impact. In this solo episode, I dive into tips and strategies for how to talk about data collection in your federal grant proposals. Topics include: -> performance measures, -> building a plan for data collection, -> identifying useful data collection tools, and -> how to align your data collection procedures across your proposal with a performance measures table. Use tips from this episode to help separate yourself from the field and win that next six- or seven-figure federal grant. Search "Common Good Data Podcast" anywhere yo listen to find the episode, or navigate to our show page: https://lnkd.in/gUpwJvYY

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Are you a donor or a grantmaker? Help our colleagues at 21/64 & the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers (NNCG) gain valuable insights on how you engage philanthropy consultants or advisors to advance your giving. Click here to start the survey > https://bit.ly/49FGn76

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Data is critical for non-profits as they look to access grants and also reduce the admin/reporting for grants they've already received We work with non-profits to collect all the data associated with their volunteers, events, and donations in one place This also allows them to report to their communities on the important impact they have been able to achieve Reach out if you think it could help your organization https://lnkd.in/grBJXDvN

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Ready to revolutionize your grant proposals and community projects? Dive into our latest blog post on "Meeting the New Demands of Grant Funders: The Rise of Meaningful and Inclusive Community Engagement." Discover why playful placemaking is the game-changing strategy that funders can't resist! ad From breaking barriers to sparking creativity, learn how engaging your community through play can double your chances of securing funding. Don't miss out—read now and join our upcoming webinar to see playful placemaking in action! #CommunityEngagement #PlayfulPlacemaking #GrantFunding #UrbanPlanning #InclusiveDesign

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At PLAYCE Studio, we understand the growing importance of meaningful and inclusive community engagement in design and planning processes. Our article, posted on the National Association of Park Foundation's blog, dives into the increasing demands from grant funders for projects that prioritize community input and showcases how playful placemaking can be the key to meeting these new requirements. 📊 Did You Know? Over 60% of grant applications now require community engagement. Projects with high levels of community involvement are 70% more likely to secure funding. 💡 Learn More Curious to see how playful placemaking works in practice? Join our upcoming webinar, "Play to Engage: Transforming Community Spaces Through Playful Placemaking", where we’ll dive into compelling case studies and highlight real-world success stories. Stay tuned for more details about the webinar and get ready to be inspired! #CommunityEngagement #Placemaking #GrantFunding #PlayfulPlacemaking #PLAYCEStudio

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Watch the complete video of our President and COO, Diallo Smith, alongside other panelists in the full discussion "How Justice Demands Are Changing Philanthropy Dynamics" at the recent Mackinac Policy Conference. https://lnkd.in/gabsk__4

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📢 Calling all #nonprofitleaders... Ready to unlock the secrets of fundraising success? 💰 Our free Fundraising Quiz will assess your current strategies and pinpoint areas for improvement. It's like a personalized roadmap to help you raise more money and achieve greater impact. 🎯 Take the quiz and discover your #fundraising strengths and weaknesses, actionable tips to boost your fundraising results, insights into donor behavior and motivations & strategies to build stronger relationships with your supporters. Don't miss out on this opportunity to level up your fundraising game! Take the Fundraising Quiz and start building a more sustainable future for your organization. 👉 Click here to take the quiz: https://lnkd.in/gw-5sSsF #nonprofit #socialimpact #fundraisingstrategy

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How to Increase Accessible and Equitable Public Engagement 🤔 You just perfected the virtual meeting, and now you’re looking to combine new online best practices with traditional engagement methods. Let’s explore how the City of Pittsburgh is using digital tools to create psychological safety, availability, and meaningfulness. Then we’ll discuss big lessons learned and emerging trends in digital+ engagement. Read our full article below! #CommunityEngagement #PublicParticipation #Accessibility #EquitableEngagement #PublicEngagement

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𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝...  Social Finance are partnering with the Healey Administration to create the Massachusetts Climate Careers Fund. This will be an outcomes-based workforce fund designed to fill climate workforce gaps, increase access to economic mobility for workers, and support a diverse clean energy workforce. It's great to see more being done to help fill the skills gap in the Climate Tech space and hopefully we will see more of these types of funds being started! What do you think about this new fund? Any other cool developments you've seen in this space to help improve the skills gap? ⬇ #smartbuildings #climatetechnology #skillsgap #carboncapture #energyinnovation

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As a proud member of National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers (NNCG), we recommend participating in this ten-minute survey to inform the 2024 Philanthropy Benchmark Survey: Insights on the Role of Consultants and Advisors in Advancing Giving. Link to survey here: https://lnkd.in/ggYjtX-H The results will help assess the practice of philanthropy by understanding the behavior and attitudes of grantmakers and the consultants and advisors who serve them. #philanthropy #funding #grantmakers

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This report was a labor of love, 2+ yrs in the making with Tunette Powell, PhD, Laura Bornfreund, the whole CEP team, CEP fam advisory committee, school leaders, and lots of CEP scholar partners across the US. This one was a journey for me, and it tracked with my own kid’s transition into elementary school last year. Kids don’t need to get “ready to learn”. Kids are BORN ready. They’re born curious, eager to explore and discover. Who asks more questions than a little kid? They start kindergarten ready to take on the world. But somewhere along the way the fire is dimmed by our systems. Often it happens during the elementary years. And kids from historically marginalized groups- Black, AI/AN, Latine, and other children of color, multilingual children, and children w disabilities- are disproportionately subject to systemic shortfalls and resulting negative experiences in school- and that’s not new. We can do so much better for our kids, collectively. Here, we propose 14 core ingredients (14 might be the CEP’s lucky number, IYKYK) for a quality elementary experience that prioritizes the joy in learning, a school environment that actually centers kids and the ways in which they learn, research backed instruction, and an elementary system that meaningfully attends to systemic biases that for too long have made schools the foundation of our unequal society, deepening opportunity and outcome gaps. The framework, like all our work, takes a historical lens. And it’s more than a vision, it’s actionable- it includes core, observable indicators and examples of school communities where these ingredients are being implemented, today. In the coming weeks, The Children's Equity Project and New America will kickoff a series digging deep on each of the 14 core ingredients. We’ll be hosting discussions on district, state, amd federal enablers. Stay tuned! Deeply appreciate funding from Trust for Learning and Heising-Simons Foundation foundation.

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Timely #communications advice for #communityfoundations from Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE): the terms you use with your board and external stakeholders can further unite or divide them. Great resources at https://lnkd.in/etftwyR9

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Day 2 of 15: highlighting lessons from Urban Institute's Youth Apprenticeship Intermediary project. How Registration Agencies Can Promote Youth Apprenticeship (https://lnkd.in/eTE-6X_6), by John Marotta Jr. and I, is part of a series of resources featuring lessons for different types of key stakeholders in youth apprenticeship. State and federal apprenticeship registration agencies have taken different approaches to the registration of youth apprenticeship programs, with some states proactively seeking to expand them and others approach youth apprenticeship with more caution. This has contributed to a wide variation in the scale of youth apprenticeship opportunities across states. To support youth apprenticeship expansion, registration agencies can: - Remove barriers to simplify and expedite the process for registering youth apprenticeship programs, as well as proactively add incentives, such as funding for sponsors to launch or expand programs. - Create a clear process for intermediaries and other national apprenticeship stakeholders to coordinate with the registration agency and each other when they come to a new state, so that organizations are not accidentally overlapping in their efforts and instead collaborating smoothly. - Establish clear parameters for registering youth apprenticeship programs so that sponsors know what to expect from state to state. OA could facilitate this process by issuing standard guidance required for all states so that youth apprenticeships are approved through a consistent review process. - Use youth apprenticeship to bolster apprenticeship in nontraditional occupations, which is a goal for many registration agencies. Based on our YAI project, a larger share of youth apprentices enter nontraditional occupations than apprentices in the registered apprenticeship system overall.

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Urban Institute #30April2024 #ResearchReport : #Labor #Market #Policies #for #Racial #Equity "What Does the Evidence Tell Us about How to Ensure the Future of Work Does Not Replicate the Disparities of Today?"

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“Equity-centered design is the practice of involving diverse communities throughout planning and implementation, to allow their voices to impact solutions to the inequity at hand”. Too many leaders build programs without the input or perspectives of those for whom they are designing for. That’s okay if you want to build a stand alone program full of inequity, but when designing programs to advance equity, it requires that you build with people and not for people. Let’s normalize including employee voices, perspectives and ideas of all backgrounds, experiences, and levels at the “table”. It is a part of my practice and should be a part of yours too! https://lnkd.in/ehB7Dem5 #edi #programdesign #equity #equitydesign #inclusivedesign

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