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		<title>Embracing the Journey from Good to Great:  A Portrait of the Nation&#8217;s Largest Hunger Relief Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Embracing the Journey From Good to Great:  A Portrait of the Nation&#8217;s Largest Hunger Relief Network (S. Gillis, August 2010)
Blueprint Research + Design, Inc.  has helped many funders and philanthropic intermediary organizations assess the capacity of a broad swath of nonprofit organizations to inform program design.  We specialize in customizing an approach to capacity assessment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Crossing: Working across sectors for social purpose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220; Border Crossing : Working across sectors for social purpose&#8221;  L. Bernholz and T. Wang (2010)
This latest in a series of papers for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation explores three cases of philanthropic funders working to effect change by embracing &#8220;sector agnostic&#8221; strategies that harness private and public sector forces, in addition to nonprofits.
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		<title>Disrupting Philanthropy: Changing the Rules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stanford University&#8217;s Alumni Network and the Society for the Americas/Council on the Americas hosted a panel presentation on the policy opportunities presented by the new philanthropic landscape in New York City.
Lucy presented with Stanford Professor Rob Reich, Independent Sector CEO Diana Aviv, and Council on Foundations President Steve Gunderson. The panel used Bernholz&#8217;s most recent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blueprintrd.com/disrupting-philanthropy-changing-the-rules</link>
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		<title>DataJam: Data as the new platform for change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New America Foundation, where Lucy is the HAND Foundation Fellow in Philanthropy, was the site of a first-ever Philanthropy DataJam, hosted by Blueprint Research+ Design and The Sunlight Foundation in Washington on May 10, 2010. Members of the Obama administration and leading open government advocates joined data providers, app developers, nonprofit activists, tech vendors, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blueprintrd.com/datajam-data-as-the-new-platform-for-change</link>
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		<title>Unleashing the Potential of E-Philanthropy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In mid April, Lucy was invited to the UK by The Oxford Internet Institute to give the keynote speech at a daylong workshop on the Potential of e-Philanthropy. The event was hosted by Dame Stephanie Shirley, the United Kingdom&#8217;s Ambassador to Philanthropy. See her Disrupting Philanthropy Speech  outlining the forces that are dramatically reshaping the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucy Bernholz Featured in March Edition of Philanthropy UK Newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the March Edition of the Philanthropy UK Newsletter, Lucy Bernholz provides insight on the nature of disruptive philanthropy in an article by Cheryl Chapman that considers the definition of philanthropy in a digital age and the kinds of audiences who are giving through online and mobile technology.  The newsletter also features Lucy&#8217;s blog as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blueprintrd.com/lucy-bernholz-featured-in-march-edition-of-philanthropy-uk-newsletter</link>
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		<title>Blueprint is Hiring:  Senior Analyst (Evaluation)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blueprint seeks to hire a senior staff person to continue to develop and advance our growing Evaluation + Organizational Learning practice area. This person would be responsible for building and strengthening these services and would lead business development efforts in this area. In addition, this person would lead all ongoing evaluation projects and mentor junior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blueprintrd.com/blueprint-is-hiring-senior-analyst-evaluation</link>
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		<title>Do-It-Yourself Community Organizing Evaluation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch organizers from Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization (CCISCO), People Acting in Community Together (PACT), and Peninsula Interfaith Action (PIA) describe their experience conducting evaluation of community organizing.  Their evaluation efforts were made possible through the support of The California Endowment.
Part 1: What did you want to get out of evaluation?
	
	
		
			
			
			
			
			
		
	www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWbFfV9EsY0
Part 2: What did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blueprintrd.com/do-it-yourself-community-organizing-evaluation</link>
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		<title>Building Fields for Policy Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Building Fields for Policy Change&#8221; L. Bernholz and T. Wang. (2010)
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		<link>http://www.blueprintrd.com/building-fields-for-policy-change</link>
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		<title>Changing the Ecosystem of Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Changing the Ecosystem of Change&#8221; L. Bernholz, S.L. Seale, T. Wang (2009).
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