Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

This includes accessible educational materials, such as e-books that can be used with computers, or mobile devices that display enlarged text or read the book aloud while also highlighting text. We have the technological innovations to help these children and their families and educators, who are looking for strategies to aid their success.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits June 11, 2008 The Tides Foundation is accepting applications for the 2008 Antonio Pizzigati prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Public ideas about health are changing rapidly as a result of technology, medical research, and preventive and wellness services. A student works on a coding challenge at Computer Science Education Week with Salesforce employees in Dublin, Ireland. Take CVS Health. In 2014, what was then called CVS Pharmacy became the first U.S.

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MAY 3, 2021

Lisa Marie Porter, MA, CVA, has been working in Museums in the public sector since 2001. In 2007, Lisa Marie graduated the George Washington University with her MA in Anthropology and Museum Studies and joined the staff at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington, DC.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. The assessment was conducted by Peter Levine, Peter Deitz and Cynthia Gibson. With nearly 5,000 applicants and more than 15,000 voters.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Leads the innovative efforts at National University for military, veteran, and military family educational degree programs . Prior to her current role, she spent 15 years in for-profit and higher education institutions with a focus in organizational development and leadership effectiveness. National University. Anna Rathmann.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 A company (or organization, or individual) can set up a public page (so it does not require a Facebook account to see it).

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JANUARY 19, 2012

over 2010, and is now officially above the level of giving last seen in 2007. The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; and public and society benefit sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Translate what gamers do into the language of "normal traditional education" and out of school time learning? Making kids s public so we as adults can understand what is going on. Issues: What is our assurance of quality of the game? What are the metrics? What is the meaning making? There is more open dialog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Microsoft Fails to get ISO fast-track for OOXML September 7, 2007 For those of you that pay attention to open standards, this is old(ish) news. Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of an open standard.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0, I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host. I am an avid Wiki user.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about education programs in Second Life. Father and daughter have been co-teaching a Harvard Law School course in Second Life this past semester, called CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opnion. If you think that Seocond Life is just about buying virtual houses, be sure read this.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Dance 4 Peace is a conflict resolution, and civic education program that promotes empathy, understanding, mediation skills, anger management, and emotional and civic engagement through dance in youth around the world. Dance 4 Peace began in Bogotá, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

Speaking of impact, London, England-based Childreach International works in partnership with local communities in the developing world to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, child rights, and protection. " "We are using Office 2007 for our daily office work. I especially like Outlook 2007.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Though the resulting structures can be complex, social enterprises are increasingly transforming traditional nonprofits and corporate philanthropy into new hybrid organizations (Billitteri, 2007).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

I agreed to publish my piece at Sage for complicated reasons, but… I vow that this is the last article that I will publish to which the public cannot get access. That’s super depressing. I am boycotting locked-down journals and I’d like to ask other academics to do the same. It’s really worth a read.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. He also runs the website [link] , a chronicle of the public good applications of virtual worlds for nonprofits, education and government.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. But once you put that data out there, and you have contacts who can see it, you’ve lost control of that data – any of your contacts could make that data about you public. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. would all be free (libre).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. Data – We collect only data that is on the public web like all other search engines and never display personally identifiable information (phone, email, address). I was all curmudgeonly until last week, when I started tweeting and got into Spock.

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APRIL 25, 2017

Do build some reserves – Educate funders that 6 months of expenses is prudent management. Since her retirement from the securities industry in 2007, Ms. So forecasting cash flow and building a cash management CULTURE is critical: Don’t ever budget a shortfall – Surprises are rarely positive.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

In response to the growing needs of professional nonprofit managers, numerous university-based nonprofit management education programs have emerged, but few offer continuing education for nonprofit professionals. Suite 500, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0691 602.496.0500 An academic unit of the College of Public Programs Pollak, T.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

Author Jeanne Bell states, “while the nonprofit sector regularly discusses and addresses programmatically issues of race and class, recent studies reveal a sharp disconnect between our values and our leadership’s demographics” (Ostrower, 2007). Public Administration Review , 64(5), 529-538. Sources: Cecala, K. 2016, October 3).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic. The stories were about Arizona schools and the state of education pertaining to the academic achievement of students and their schools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

In the end David is right… the absence of a good metric does not excuse the publication of a bad one. Does it contribute the information that the the project does not report their security vulnerabilities? 7 admin 04.07.09 at 9:13 am Actually, Plone didn’t have zero – it had two.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. After a broad survey, Rick’s team defined three broad categories of public participation in scientific research: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. Science has an answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. The winner gets $1 million and five finalists will receive $100,000.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

I have to admit that I went into this thinking much more about the more public types of APIs even though the APIs for internal data integration has been a real interest of mine, and a real concern, as well. Zach brought up an interesting point, and I think it is worth highlighting.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. He also runs the website [link] , a chronicle of the public good applications of virtual worlds for nonprofits, education and government.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain.

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

In their words: “CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS is a bit of an odd beast. It is Red Hat, with branding removed. So they take RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and repackage it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

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. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I suppose if there were a lot of charity focused intermediaries that wanted to build and market applications on top of a platform, then there would be a huge incentive to maintain platform neutral APIs. But so far Convio on top of Salesforce is the only publicly visible player in that space.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

Some of the most significant disruptors to the sector over the last decade include: While the value of individual giving in the United States increased about 3.4% (adjusted for inflation) in the decade from 2003 to 2013, the number of public nonprofits increased 23.4% or almost 5 times the rate at which individual giving increased.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The next one is Educational Care, in Tempe, who reported $1.8 In any case, Educational Care doesnt turn up other traces. This is great news. Central Ave.

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