• Influential columnist cites WINGS Annual Report

    "Best I've seen from a nonprofit"

    Oct 29, 2009
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    Submitted by: Ginny Deerin

    What a boost WINGS got today from influential columnist Sean Stannard-Stockton!

    “The best annual report I’ve seen from a nonprofit – serious info, easily digested,” declared his Twitter post, after Sean looked at "Laying the Groundwork for the Growth Years Ahead" - the WINGS Annual Report for 2008-09.

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  • Want to Make the World a Better Place?

    List of 5 ways funders can improve now

    Oct 06, 2009
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    Submitted by: Paula Schwed

    Still chewing over David Hunter’s list of how funders can make the world a better place!

    A co-founder of the Alliance for Effective Social Investing, Hunter was in Charleston last week, speaking to influential community leaders about halting “sentimental giving” to ineffective nonprofits and diverting the investments to high-performing organizations instead.

    David Hunter's 5 ways funders can improve:

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  • Making the World a Better Place

    Invest in high-performing nonprofits

    Sep 29, 2009
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    Submitted by: Paula Schwed

     Want to make the world a better place? Invest in organizations not programs! That was David Hunter's rallying cry today in remarks to some influential community leaders gathered in Charleston, S.C., to join the ongoing national conversation about how philanthropy can have more impact by increasing investments in high-performing, results-oriented organizations.

    Hunter is a co-founder of the Alliance for Effective Social Investing who formerly worked at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, where he was involved in the investment of more than $100 million.

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  • WINGS cited as high-performing success story

    Meaningful model advances social and emotional education

    Sep 22, 2009
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    Submitted by: Paula Schwed

    The Movement to advance social and emotional education is gaining momentum.  At WINGS we are proud of our proven track record for reaching students entrenched in the cycle of poverty, and giving them the tools to break free. Those tools are the social and emotional skills that help us get along in life with other people. Being cited as a success story by Social Solutions for the precise way we track our performance and outcomes is another way we spread impact.

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  • Center for Social and Emotional Education

    Social and emotional skills make schools safer

    Sep 15, 2009
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    Submitted by: Paula Schwed

     The Center for Social and Emotional Education, CSEE, has launched a bullying initiative called BullyBust to make schools safer and they've posted some very useful resources that do a great job of building social skills to deter this insidious threat. Their School Climate blog also gave space to WINGS to tell how using the Creed gave a big boost to improving school climate at our program sites.

     

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