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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? Eventually, nonprofit and for-profit sectors in the United States began to adopt some of the concepts from the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship movement (Defourny et al.,

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc.,

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Rocket Dog Rescue: Dog Saves Woman, Woman Saves Dog

Have Fun - Do Good

In my surfing around for adoption opportunities, I came across the incredible story of Pali Boucher, the founder of Rocket Dog Rescue in San Francisco. Boucher was the child of a homeless, drug-addicted mother who died when she was ten. As a homeless adult, she visited animal shelters to spend time with the dogs there.

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Choosing the Right Free Technology in 5 Easy Steps

Tech Soup

Create a Training and Adoption Strategy. A training and adoption strategy can help alleviate this resistance and give everyone involved a clear plan for going forward. The training and adoption strategy would provide staff with step-by-step guidance for how to do this and how to sunset current ways of completing these tasks.

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What is Lethal Generosity?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also in 2008, Daily Bread Food Bank , a local organization, announced that contributions had been sparse and unless something changed, homeless people would go hungry. Several Twitter social change users started to urge others in the community to do something. The team uses social media, twitter to initiate community generosity projects.

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