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Capacity Building Grants for Nonprofits in 2022

Board Effect

The following areas will give you some good places to start: Governance. Communication. Oregon Community Foundation. The Chicago Community Trust. Seattle Foundation. Bainbridge Community Foundation. The following four steps will take you through how to apply for a capacity building grant. Technology.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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Strengthening Community Ties: How Nonprofit Leaders Can Better Approach Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Board Effect

While they’re experts at running nonprofit organizations, nonprofit board members don’t always understand their communities or the social context of the issues that affect their constituencies. The issue of nonprofit diversity presents an opportunity for nonprofit board members to become more greatly connected to their communities.

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Out of the Crisis #15: Lenore Estrada on her SF New Deal, serving the hungry, and civic engagement

Startup Lessons Learned

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society. Lenore Estrada : Thanks.

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Startup America Partnership

Feld Thoughts

Over the past eighteen months I’ve gotten to know a number of people in the executive brand of our government, especially at the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council. Fortunately, the White House listened to a number of smart people, including the amazing folks at the Kauffman Foundation.

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Cynicism in Silicon Valley

Feld Thoughts

Readers of this blog and my book Startup Communities know that I’m a huge fan of AnnaLee Saxenian. It has a politics—this Vietnam-era rejection of the military-industrial complex, rejection of the mainframe, Big Business, Big Government, big universities.” She has a great quote in The Atlantic article.

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The National Day of Civic Hacking

Feld Thoughts

Over 5000 people in 87 locations will be joining up to use their talents to make their communities a better place. The National Day of Civic Hacking is the first of a yearly event created by the White House to gather Citizen Engineers and have them use newly accessible government data to improve their communities and our entire society.

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