Telling Your Story: A multilane highway

Telling Your Story: A multilane highway

In this blog post by Amanda Mizrahi, she uses the motif of a multi-lane highway to describe the differing and changing needs of donors, end users, community members, colleagues and potential partners, and how they interact with information that an organization shares. “They need different ramps to get on or off of your highway, rest stops and safe shoulders, fast and slow lanes and definitely lots of appropriate signage to help them make good choices along the way,” she states. “Whether it is in the boardroom, on your website, or at the point of service, each individual needs to have access to the right sets of information at the right times to ensure their journey is comfortable and gets them where they want to go.”

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Mayberg Foundation Grantee-Clients Embrace the Value of Collective Effort

Mayberg Foundation Grantee-Clients Embrace the Value of Collective Effort

In this blog post by Tyler Grasee, Associate Manager of Grantmaking, he describes how Mayberg Foundation grantees have embraced the value of Collective Effort, especially during the pandemic. This past year, he related, “by continually listening to our grantee-clients, we have had the opportunity to see the broader effects of their collective efforts, meeting the communities they serve where they’re at and addressing communal needs as holistically as possible.”

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Embrace the Value of Failure

Embrace the Value of Failure

“What can you tell me about your failures?”

This is a topic I commonly bring up with an organization before we consider making an annual gift to them. In asking about failure, I am hoping the organization can share specifically what didn’t go as well as they had hoped and what they are learning from this experience.

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