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Helping GCIR Celebrate Its 20th
Anniversary!
 Grantmakers
Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees has done remarkable work to help philanthropy
incorporate newcomers into communities across the country and
world.
Already a strategic planning client,
when it came time to celebrate its 20th anniversary, GCIR retained
Copeland Carson & Associates to design and produce a digital
story documenting its history and impact.
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Building Community Capacity for
Change
For the past year, Copeland Carson & Associates has been part
of a team of "logic model coaches" supporting The California
Endowment's mission to build healthy communities throughout the
state.
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Beyond
Business as Usual:
Ten Principles to Build Nigerian
Social Capitalism
Alliance magazine recently published an article summarizing
Copeland Carson & Associates' views and recommendations to
promote development of an indigenous philanthropy and social
enterprise sector that reforms capitalism in Africa and elsewhere.
Read it here and
visit the Crosscurrents forum to let us
know your thoughts.
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Evaluation Anthropology Network at the
AEA Conference
Copeland Carson & Associates designed and is co-convening a
special presidential session on cross-cultural issues in evaluation
at the upcoming American Evaluation Association conference in San
Antonio, TX.
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 Welcome to the first issue of Crosscurrents,
Copeland Carson &
Associates' social innovation
newsletter!
Originally founded almost 30 years ago and incorporated in 2000,
we combine the art and science of social change for justice and
equity. Over the years, we have worked with corporations,
philanthropies, social enterprises, donors as well as every
imaginable collaborative and hybrid in between to promote our
mission.
We specialize in philanthropic services, evaluation, strategic
planning, social innovation research, as well as social marketing
and communications.
Although we work primarily in the US with diverse institutions and
communities, we have a growing presence in Africa, the Caribbean,
Latin America, Europe and Asia. As practitioners and scholars we
have technical expertise in about 20 different fields as well as
competence in as many different languages and cultures.
In Crosscurrents you will find updates about our work to bring
together people, places, ideas and resources in new ways to address
society's most pressing challenges. You will also learn about
emergent and leading edge developments in philanthropy, evaluation
and social change research.
We value your interest in our practice. This newsletter is only a
portal to the exciting new developments we want to share. Click on
the highlighted text below to go to research and examples of some
of the innovations that might help you in your work. To share your
thoughts, please go to our website where you can get more
details about our work and become a member of our online change
agent community. We look forward to hearing from you.
Jackie Copeland-Carson,
President
Copeland
Carson & Associates
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Evaluating Community
Change
 "For the past twenty years, the Jessie Smith
Noyes Foundation has supported efforts to build a movement for
social justice. So it was time for us to find out just how we were
doing in fulfilling our mission. We hired Copeland Carson &
Associates, which developed an easy to understand, practical and
innovative evaluation. They helped us to better understand our
theory of change, and grantmaking procedures and outcomes. We've
incorporated many of their recommendations in our grant review
process and new strategic plan. As a result of their work,
evaluation is now an important part of the way in which we do
business."
Vic DeLuca, President
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
(USA)
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SIMSSM:
A New Concept in Contemporary Marketing and Communications
Copeland Carson &
Associates has created SIMSSM--Social Impact Multi-Media
Services--a new approach to marketing and communications. It
combines the power of new, multi-media tools with classic
communications principles to expand the scale of your
organization's influence. Collaborating with our new strategic
partner, long-time and award-winning design specialist, Patrick
Florville and his team, SIMSSM
provides comprehensive planning, training and management to help
you effectively and practically integrate the "new technologies"
into your operations, communications and marketing. Building on
Copeland Carson & Associates' deep expertise in cross-sector
and cross-cultural markets, we also can create effective strategies
that include your customers' and constituents' diverse needs,
interests and priorities.
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Working
to Expand African Social Capitalism
"Though Copeland Carson and Associates
is an American firm, they had a unique understanding of the needs
of new Foundations working in complex contexts like Nigeria. We
were never asked to fit our style of philanthropy into any Western
model, but they listened to the direction we wanted to go and
advised on how we could get there. What I personally found useful
was Jackie's willingness to simply listen. Most times that is all
Chief Executives dealing with a million things at once require".
Ms. Thelma Ekiyor
Executive
Director/CEO
TY Danjuma Foundation
Nigeria's First Indigenous
Foundation
We are creating a unique and
growing practice promoting emergent indigenous philanthropy, social
enterprise and corporate social responsibility movements in Africa
and its diaspora. We believe the committed leaders and innovators
in these movements are not only building a formal, homegrown
philanthropy sector but have the potential to reform destructive
forms of capitalism on the continent.
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