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Investing your funds…acknowledging your priorities

Clara Richards

Jan 19, 20153 min read

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...

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The Fundraising Function : how do you organise it and why?

Clara Richards

Dec 16, 20144 min read

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...

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Funding and research: a difficult matchmaking

Clara Richards

Nov 20, 20144 min read

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...

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Annual Report – a Powerful Communicating Tool

Clara Richards

Oct 16, 20143 min read

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...

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Communications and fund raising: a close relationship

Clara Richards

Oct 7, 20143 min read

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...

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Working together: lessons from collaborative projects with think tanks around the world

Clara Richards

Oct 2, 20144 min read

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...

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Clara Richards

Sep 23, 20143 min read

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...

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Making Transparency Transparent: What We Learnt

Clara Richards

Aug 7, 20144 min read

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.]...

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The challenge of communicating with different actors: is segmentation a good investment for think ta

Clara Richards

Aug 5, 20144 min read

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...

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Strengthening Grupo Faro’s Board of Directors

Clara Richards

Jul 24, 20144 min read

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...

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Re-thinking funding models: a short survey and an upcoming course

Clara Richards

Jul 3, 20141 min read

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...

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Should we start building a ‘networked communications’ culture?

Clara Richards

Mar 19, 20143 min read

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...

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Clara Richards

Feb 12, 20143 min read

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...

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Politics & Ideas one year into the road: what have we achieved?

Clara Richards

Dec 23, 20132 min read

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...

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Why is changing donor-driven research agendas so hard?

Clara Richards

Nov 22, 20134 min read

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...

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More reflections on transitions in think tanks’ executive direction: FUSADES’ experience

Clara Richards

Sep 23, 20133 min read

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...

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How to conduct a transition in the Executive Direction? Two experiences from think thanks in Latin A

Clara Richards

Aug 23, 20135 min read

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...

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Clara Richards

Aug 14, 20133 min read

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...

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Governmental research funding frameworks in Latin America

Clara Richards

Aug 12, 20133 min read

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...

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The future of think tank communications in Peru

Clara Richards

Jul 31, 20131 min read

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,...

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