The Brainerd Foundation is a Northwest-focused family foundation that provides grants to strengthen the ability of nonprofits, communities, and decision-makers to protect our region’s air, land and water. Read More
Our Conservation policy program invests in regional or state-level policy priorities that build a track record of success and demonstrate the benefits of pro-conservation policies to public officials.
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- Get a window into the way the Brainerd Foundation thinks. Read about our mission, vision, values and methods on our Strategy & Focus pages.
- The Brainerd Foundation will sunset within the next ten years. Read more about what this decision means for the foundation, our grantees and the conservation community.
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Nonprofit Social Media Benchmarks Study
When it comes to social media, nonprofits find themselves making it up as they go along. M+R Strategic Services provides this study that sheds some light on the exciting, rapidly evolving (and often confusing) world of online social media. With the goal of helping organizations—no matter their size—develop meaningful metrics for their social network outreach, this study is especially helpful for organizations that already have a strategy in place for using these tools.