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On my way to NTC

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And of course, there is Penguin Day !! I’m excited to be doing it again, in a new city, with some great partners, including Aspiration , of course, Joomla , PICnet , and the Chicago Technology Cooperative. This year, I’m much more clear about the directions my work is going in, and what I’m looking for at NTC.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? Of course you do. percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. from University of Chicago in Anthropology & Latin American Studies and a B.A. We just saw this. We have to apply lessons learned from the GFC.

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. The title of this blog post is of course a wildly inaccurate claim. Your key performance indicator is of course the money you raised.

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Our Much Improved Tech Support In TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative

Tech Soup

All of our RCI-refurbished PCs come with the Windows 7 operating system, and all come with Office 2007. PCRR is a Chicago-based company that was founded in 2000 as the nonprofit, Computers for Schools. PCRR of course is R2 certified like our other refurbishment partners. How Green Is RCI? They're a busy place.

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Bay Localize & Green Roofs: An Interview with Ingrid Severson

Have Fun - Do Good

And that should be happening, as in those pieces of literature and reports published, probably around July of 2007. One of the things that has inspired us is the city of Chicago and the city of New York. Of course I went through all of the stages that people in this movement go through. I started going to monthly meetings.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

And, of course, because women's organizations always have too little money, I thought maybe a book would inspire other people to help. The new book, of course, is the fourth book which came about as a result of all of those travels, and my observation that women, and organizations of women, are making a big difference all over the world.

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State Fairs and Visitor Co-Creation: An Interview about MN150

Museum 2.0

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” And then through the course of the night, it was like yearbooks in high school: they were all asking to sign each other’s books.