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Recession-Proofing Your Nonprofit: How to Continue Serving Your Mission During Challenging Times

Charity Village

Let’s turn back time and gain learnings from the Great Recession of 2007 as a reference for […]. Serving your mission during a recession can be tricky without proper preparation. Looking back helps us all plan ahead.

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Facebook Timeline Launches With Three “Giving” Apps – Many More Likely To Come

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, in reference to the social fundraising apps, according to Network for Good social giving is on the rise with an average donation of $52 (as of Q3 2011). As the first fundraising app launched inside of Facebook, since its founding in 2007 it has raised more $40 million for over 27,000 nonprofits. Availability: U.S.

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Lame spam of the day: U.N. natural disaster victim payment

Robert Weiner

Note: Because of impostors, we hereby issue you with a private code for security, your code shall be (CARD 905:2007) Make this code your reference number when contacting us. On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me for more details and direction, and also please do update me with any new development. Thanks for your co-operation.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) And what does “Linked Open Data” refer to?

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How Can Nonprofits Make the Most of Overhead Funds?

ASU Lodestar Center

These costs, referred to as “indirect” expenses, “general and administrative (G&A)” costs or “overhead,” include such outlays as salaries and employer related expenses, utilities, rent, computers, and information technology (IT). Grant Makers for Effective Organizations (2007). As Sharon King, president of the F.B. Knowlton, C.

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GA4 FAQs: What Mission-Driven Organizations Need to Know

Forum One

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. In UA, the basic unit of collected data is referred to as a hit; UA records one pageview hit each time someone views a page. What are the differences between UA and GA4?

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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