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Maximizing the Value of Attending Sector Convenings Like Opportunity Collaboration & Skoll World Forum by Natalie Rekstad, Claire Wathen & Matthew Patten

By Natalie Rekstad, Founder & CEO of Black Fox Philanthropy, Claire Wathen, Director, Network & Partnerships at The Skoll Foundation & Matthew Patten, Donor Relations Facilitator at Catalyst 2030 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUcFiA8v9Q4   After a three-year hiatus, we are traveling back to Oxford for the 20th Skoll World Forum (SWF). As we prepare to pack our [...]

By |2023-05-29T23:43:47+00:00July 13th, 2022|Philanthropist Profile|0 Comments
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Celebrating Seven Years of Impact | A Look Back on the Genesis of Black Fox Philanthropy

As we prepare for our seven-year anniversary celebration and company leadership retreat in Boulder, Colorado on August 21st, I’m moved to reflect upon the last seven years. What I can share is that it has been an extraordinary ride — with some incredibly high highs with beloved clients and team members, and days (weeks?) when [...]

By |2020-07-06T03:48:42+00:00August 18th, 2020|Fundraising, Philanthropist Profile|0 Comments
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Virtual Skoll World Forum | Black Fox Philanthropy | Attracting Bold & Big Bet Funding

Photo by Amanda Jones on Unsplash Weeks ago, we had plans to publish an exciting report, Bold & Big Bet Philanthropic Landscape, here on our blog. This report, compiled from the findings of a series of generous and candid interviews conducted with major funders across the sector, and in-depth research and analysis, seeks to answer the question  “What inspires [...]

By |2023-08-16T10:00:14+00:00April 28th, 2020|Fundraising, Philanthropist Profile, Uncategorized, Webinars|0 Comments
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The Digital Economist Launches in Davos | During the World Economic Forum’s 50th Anniversary

Mobilizing the Global Innovation Community in Davos to Build a Human-Centered Digital Economy  WASHINGTON, DC, January 17, 2020: The Digital Economist, a Washington-based global impact platform focused on co-creating solutions to drive technological convergence in the new digital economy to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals is convening a gathering of 200 corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, [...]

By |2020-01-17T17:04:15+00:00January 17th, 2020|Philanthropist Profile, UN SDGs|0 Comments
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The Hero’s Journey | Spotlight on Sector Leaders and their Quest for Change

In Joseph Campbell’s landmark book entitled The Hero with a Thousand Faces, he illustrates common patterns running through hero myths and stories from around the world.  He discovered several basic stages that almost every hero-quest goes through, and we could not fail to notice the many client leaders we serve follow a similar arc [...]

By |2023-08-16T09:24:39+00:00January 15th, 2020|Philanthropist Profile|0 Comments
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The Power of Story: Engaging Funders via Compelling Storytelling

by Natalie Rekstad, Founder & CEO of Black Fox Philanthropy, LLC One of the ways Black Fox Philanthropy serves the social sector is to be an open-source on much of the content we’ve developed. We recognize that less-resourced NGOs can’t afford to engage our fundraising services. We regularly release this content via our blog, and today [...]

By |2019-12-16T22:07:06+00:00December 17th, 2019|Philanthropist Profile|0 Comments
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“Sticky” Words of Wisdom at Opportunity Collaboration

by Natalie Rekstad, Founder & CEO of Black Fox Philanthropy & Katherine Redington Vice President of Social Impact Journeys and Business Development at Elevate Destinations At the 5th Annual Collaboration Cocktails at Opportunity Collaboration this past October, Black Fox Philanthropy teamed up with Katherine Redington of Elevate Destinations to spur conversation.  We invited Elevate Destinations because [...]

By |2019-11-11T21:23:04+00:00November 11th, 2019|Philanthropist Profile|0 Comments
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Black Fox Philanthropy Recognized as a “2019 Best For The World: Changemaker” by B Lab

Boulder, Colorado; 9/4/19 – Black Fox Philanthropy, a Certified B Corporation, has been recognized as a 2019 Best For The World: Changemaker in recognition of their significant improvement to their overall impact on their workers, customers, communities, the environment, and governance. B Corps that earn the designation as a “Changemakers” set a gold standard for [...]

By |2019-09-23T13:15:20+00:00September 6th, 2019|Philanthropist Profile|0 Comments
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Surprise & Gratitude | Black Fox Philanthropy Founder curated into book: “AMERICA’S LEADING LADIES…”

by Natalie Rekstad, Founder & CEO at Black Fox Philanthropy   It is such a pleasure (and shock) to share that I have been curated into the book "America’s Leading Ladies” which profiles fifty American women doing extraordinary things in the world.  I am in the company of Oprah Winfrey, Melinda Gates, and others who [...]

By |2019-05-23T01:46:49+00:00May 21st, 2019|Philanthropist Profile|0 Comments
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Hope & Determination:Outcomes from the 63rd Session of UN’s Commission on the Status of Women

by Natalie Rekstad, Founder & CEO of Black Fox Philanthropy, LLC, B Corp Women Moving Millions Delegation pictured with UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (to the right of flag) “The Agreed Conclusions, even though not everybody got everything they wanted, give us enough to take home, to [...]

By |2019-04-02T15:56:03+00:00April 2nd, 2019|Philanthropist Profile, UN SDGs|0 Comments
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