Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2024

Mayer, reflecting on his song in 2007, expressed the need to start a debate about our tendency to passively await change. The symphony of global impact orchestrated by Playing For Change continues to resonate, breaking down boundaries and overcoming distances between people. Prepare to be inspired!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As founder and chief leadership development officer at the Kansas Leadership Center, respectively, O’Malley and Fabris McBride have led thousands of people through programs to help them engage in the act of leadership. A movement that inspires more people to practice leadership where they can and when they can. Don’t get us wrong.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

More than 3 million people use donor-advised fund accounts for their philanthropy. Many people are turning to donor-advised funds over setting up private foundations because they’re easier to manage. But Stein cautions that people can also misuse other types of donations to nonprofit organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 10, 2007

Starting Saturday, July 28th at 6 AM PST, 2007 Blogathon bloggers will post a new post every 30 minutes for 24 hours to raise money for their favorite cause. If you do decide to join the 2007 Blogathon, let folks know in the comments of this post. Image Credit: The 2007 Blogathon mascot, Meme the Sheep, was created by the Ryan Estrada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

The 2007 NTC Conference is around the corner, well in April, but some discount pricing deadlines coming right up. My virtual volunteering lets me offer help to people in remote locations and time zones. although real life connections with other people are more rewarding. I'm excited because this will my seventh one!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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MARCH 17, 2008

I’m looking forward to it. I’m on the Evaluating Open Source panel, with Laura Quinn and Catherine Lane, which should be great. So, if you want to catch up with me, email, and I’ll send you my phone # so you can call or text me, or twitter me. {

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MARCH 24, 2008

I got to see lots of people that I only see once a year (or even less often,) I got to meet a lot of new people, I had interesting and deep conversations, and I got to hear a lot about what people are thinking about the nonprofit technology field.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

No factor more important than the feeling we get when we help people. Helping people and serving the community can feel like an uphill battle, yet it becomes so much easier when we have someone by our side, helping and motivating us as we climb the hill. He has been in the nonprofit sector since 2007. Carey School of Business.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly. And Katya tells us why Seth Godin is right about people being lazy and in a hurry, and gives us some tips on how to use that. And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

These are the best numbers we’ve seen since the beginning of the Great Recession in late December 2007. Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Online Catalog. percent to $586.1 Amnesty International Shop. promoting human rights.

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APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Rate your CMS! and how they like them.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

I come across a lot in my varied net wanderings, and people send me stuff, so it’s a nice way to talk about some of it, without having to go into too much detail. I was profiled on Linux.com. That’s kinda fun! I “live the open source lifestyle.&# That must have been before the iPhone.

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Qgiv

APRIL 18, 2022

In 2007, Qgiv was founded by a couple of friends looking for a way to make it easy for nonprofit, faith-based, and political organizations to accept online donations and payments. Get to know the Qgiv fundraising platform. Final thoughts. Your nonprofit would likely benefit from both a CRM and a fundraising platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Some questions: What have you seen in terms of partnerships for people seeking funds for games? Translate what gamers do into the language of "normal traditional education" and out of school time learning? There is more open dialog. Interesting projects that are not the historical type.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Making a better, more findable blog October 24, 2007 I’ve gotten some nice kudos for my blog in the past few days, and it feels nice to know that people read the blog, and get something out of it.

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JANUARY 4, 2008

But, a very nice soul at MayFirst/people-link, where we house the NOSI site, set up Limesurvey for us, so we’re using that. I had originally done the survey in Surveymonkey , which is a slick on-line survey tool. Limesurvey is actually quite powerful. Worth a look if your organization does surveys. {

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Last minute tidbits December 20, 2007 This will be my last post of 2007 – I’m taking some days off from work and blogging, and won’t return until the beginning of the year.

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APRIL 15, 2009

I am so envious of people with graphics skills who can do that well. Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. There are a whole lot of really cool things here.

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APRIL 10, 2008

It provides for me a sense of community, and a sense of what people I know and care about things I care about are talking about (in a certain realm, on other realms, not so much). It is made up of people who are techically-oriented, largely affluent, and largely spend inordinate amounts of time in contact with electronic devices.

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JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

As a funder, you can put up RFPs (at a cost), and people can apply directly online. I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. Zoomgrants looks like it is trying to be some sort of one-stop-shop for grantors and grantees. It looks interesting, and potentially useful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

A note : Most people will notice that I have pretty much lost my curmudgeonly approach to social media. No, I didn’t go soft in the head (well, some people might think so.) Not only are Gen Y and Millenials engaged in these social networks, but a wider and broader range of people are.

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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 am an avid Wiki user.

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MARCH 27, 2008

I kinda thought that was surprising, but in thinking about what I write, I realize that people could get the wrong idea (or, more accurately, fail to get the right idea.) And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. Gotta work on that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I know that for people who work in real offices, with real other people, IRC is a difficult tool to use – because it takes you away from the environment you are in, and makes it hard to be a part of multiple conversations. On the other hand, a lot of people are IMing, and tweeting, etc. It’s also scriptable.

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MARCH 10, 2008

But I have really come to believe that the way that we work with people is as important as the “final&# outcome. Hopefully the fact that you asked gets people to realize that it’s something important to do. This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up?

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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. Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Open source is becoming mainstream, and people (that is, people with money) are starting to throw big bucks in the direction of open source projects, and companies that provide services for open source projects. A company that provides services for Ruby on Rails got a bunch of funding.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Over the past week though, there have been little glimpses of happiness amid the disasters, scandals and economic bad news - stories about the CNN Heroes: Ordinary People Extraordinary Impact. Since May 2007, he and his crew have aided thousands of victims at 15 sites across the United States -- free of charge."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities. Our team is brimming with ideas for making that vision a reality.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Like all social networks, they are only as usable as people in your social graph use it, and it’s pretty sparse for me right now. There are an increasing number of third party apps that can use it (it supports the Twitter API.) So I’m on identi.ca now ( follow pearlbear ). But hopefully that will change. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

As the bandwidth available increases (via FiOS , and other methods) cloud computing will get even more attractive to organizations and people. Cloud computing just doesn’t make any sense, or work in any reasonable way without it (have you ever tried to use Gmail on dial up?)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

1 trackback } Boy in the Bands » Blog Archive » Because the power of the Internet increases as people get connected. Update: I’ve been using it now as my default browser for the last day or so, and it is really growing on me. { at 9:01 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Robin 03.16.08

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OCTOBER 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Getting Naked: Being human and transparent October 9, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Sorry it’s a day late.

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