Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 12, 2017

YouTube launched almost 13 years ago on February 14, 2005 and you got to give credit to the early adopter nonprofits active on YouTube in its early years. These early adopters were also embracing Myspace when the vast majority of nonprofits hadn’t yet had their aha moment about social media. Imagine a World Without Hate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? Defourny et al.,

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

So … when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was adopted by Congress in 2002, there just wasn’t much history to help nonprofits understand its impact – on them. Impact: About half of those nonprofit organizations included in the random sample for this study adopted at least some of the SOX provisions, in addition to the two required ones.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

The 2013 NTEN Award Winner Maddie Grant is a classic Gen-X early adopter of technology and lover of "shiny new toys". We''ve been lucky to have Maddie as the host of Online NTC for several years running, and as a contributor to the NTEN blog and supporter through the NTEN Champions Campaign. We''re big fans of Maddie and our community agrees!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Causes began as a Facebook app in 2007, and became independent in 2012. Parker is an original investor in the political social media site, Votizen. To that end, Salesforce1 for Nonprofits keeps track of people not so much as customers, but as nodes on a social graph.” It was one of the original 10 Facebook apps.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Why Apple isn’t the Nonprofit App Grinch Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on December 10th, 2010 Nonprofit social media expert Beth Kanter isn’t happy with Apple at the moment. But that’s a blog post for another day.

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