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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The intent is to create an annual national day of giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving or this year on November 27, 2012. The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations. Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

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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Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Most often these new experiments have grown out of frustration with the fact that, despite several decades of rapid growth in philanthropy and nonprofits, many of the same social and environmental problems persist, or are getting worse. Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Staying on the leading edge: The several economies of the social sector

ASU Lodestar Center

Although the ‘double bottom line’ — profit and social value — have long been recognized, there are now new ways of looking at this question, encompassed in new terms: social, core, and monetary economies. It encompasses the income sources that drive our society: profit, government, philanthropy, earned income.

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Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think They Should Do Their Work!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012). Interviews with approximately 30 grantees (April-June 2012).

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Senior Volunteering: Burden or Benefit?

ASU Lodestar Center

Finally, senior volunteers may have developed extensive social and professional networks over the course of their lives and careers, which could lead to more donors and volunteers for the organization. She is currently a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at ASU, planning to graduate in December 2012. Like this article?

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

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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