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The MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Break Through Award for NPO

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now nominations are being accepted for the 2007 Purpose Prize. The application deadline is February 1, 2007. Awards will be announced in the spring of 2007. Civic Ventures is known for its purpose prize, a new initiative to invest in Americans over 60 who are leading a new age of social innovation.

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Live from Convio Summit 2007 - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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”) requires nonprofits not to focus entirely on bringing people to the nonprofit’s site, but to expand this focus to include taking the NPO’s mission outward to other communities on the Web.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. 13 Diego 11.04.07

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. The 2007 Crunchies is its first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. Not at all?

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NpTechHelp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We already host a vendor group which is, in fact, discussing issues pertaining to them as a cohort, and I believe we have a consultant group doing the same, so we would be very thrilled to have a professionally facilitated NPO group as well. I believe Allen and I are in the same wavelength with this and willing to make that happen.

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Cake vs. Symfony

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For those of us struggling to understand as many aspects of web development in relation to NPO’s as we can, I wanted to say thank you and please keep it up. I’ve really liked working with it for small to mid sized projects. 3 TJ Sondermann 11.06.08 tjs 4 Ariel Arjona 11.20.08 at 3:04 pm I used cake 1.2

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. So I have a bit of experience in both business and with intellectual property, all of which brings me to this question: Do NPO people value what they get for free?

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