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Investing your funds…acknowledging your priorities
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series that will look at think tank funding models. It is based on an online course that had been...
Clara Richards
Jan 19, 20153 min read
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The Fundraising Function : how do you organise it and why?
Courtesy of anankkml at www.freedigitalphotos.net [Editor’s note: This post is part of a series that will look at think tank funding...
Clara Richards
Dec 16, 20144 min read
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Funding and research: a difficult matchmaking
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series that will look at think tank funding models. It is based on an online course that is...
Clara Richards
Nov 20, 20144 min read
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Annual Report – a Powerful Communicating Tool
An Annual Report in today’s context has become an important communication material. Some organisations use it for fund raising...
Clara Richards
Oct 16, 20143 min read
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Communications and fund raising: a close relationship
Fund raising and communications processes are extremely linked in the work of think tanks. Most of the time, we do both things at the...
Clara Richards
Oct 7, 20143 min read
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Working together: lessons from collaborative projects with think tanks around the world
The On Think Tanks Exchange is an initiative that aims to encourage and support exchanges between think tanks for the purpose of...
Clara Richards
Oct 2, 20144 min read
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What is a successful funding model?
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series that will look at think tank funding models. It is based on a course that is currently...
Clara Richards
Sep 23, 20143 min read
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Making Transparency Transparent: What We Learnt
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Hans Gutbrod, coordinator of Transparify, which advocates for greater think tank transparency.]...
Clara Richards
Aug 7, 20144 min read
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The challenge of communicating with different actors: is segmentation a good investment for think ta
Think tanks are increasingly asking themselves how they can fine tune their communications so as to interact more effectively with the...
Clara Richards
Aug 5, 20144 min read
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Strengthening Grupo Faro’s Board of Directors
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Orazio Bellettini, Director of Grupo FARO in Ecuador. It is part of a series of posts emerging...
Clara Richards
Jul 24, 20144 min read
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Re-thinking funding models: a short survey and an upcoming course
At Politics & Ideas, we are working to put together an online course focused on understanding funding models that think tanks employ...
Clara Richards
Jul 3, 20141 min read
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Should we start building a ‘networked communications’ culture?
We are ready to re-frame the way we think and talk about how communications can contribute for research to inform public policies. We...
Clara Richards
Mar 19, 20143 min read
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Resources for executive directors: competences, structure and tools
[Editor’s note: This post originally appeared at On Think Tanks. It is part of a series of posts reflecting on a mentoring project with...
Clara Richards
Feb 12, 20143 min read
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Politics & Ideas one year into the road: what have we achieved?
As we end up our first year of life, at P&I we are even more convinced about the value of co-producing knowledge that will allow us to...
Clara Richards
Dec 23, 20132 min read
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Why is changing donor-driven research agendas so hard?
Funding is one of the pillars of our research agenda, because it is a hassle both for the recipients as for the givers since matching the...
Clara Richards
Nov 22, 20134 min read
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More reflections on transitions in think tanks’ executive direction: FUSADES’ experience
FUSADES is a private, non-profit development organization dedicated to the ongoing pursuit of the common good, centered on the human...
Clara Richards
Sep 23, 20133 min read
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How to conduct a transition in the Executive Direction? Two experiences from think thanks in Latin A
As I wrote in a previous post, think tank’s directors need to deal with a huge diversity of issues: from budgetary choices, to...
Clara Richards
Aug 23, 20135 min read
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Moving our research agenda forward
In the upcoming weeks we will start sharing some of the research currently being carried out as to develop our research agenda. The...
Clara Richards
Aug 14, 20133 min read
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Governmental research funding frameworks in Latin America
How is governmental funding of think tanks in Latin America structured, and how does this affect them? Martin Lardone and Marcos Roggero...
Clara Richards
Aug 12, 20133 min read
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The future of think tank communications in Peru
Two months ago, a group of UK based think tank communicators organised an event on the future of think tank communications. In response,...
Clara Richards
Jul 31, 20131 min read
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