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How a small nonprofit organization survived the Great Recession

ASU Lodestar Center

The year is 2008. Responsibilities fell to the board of directors and executive directors to do something to save their organizations. If one’s work as an executive director of a nonprofit organization is a vocation, a “calling,” the answers to the following questions are likely to be YES!: Worse, staff and volunteers dwindled.

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Research Friday: Current Status of Arizona's Philanthropic Resources

ASU Lodestar Center

Today, we welcome Marissa Theisen of Arizona Grantmakers Forum to discuss findings from the 2010 Arizona Giving Report. Organizations must continually evaluate which programs get priority, and at times, make tough decisions as to which ones get cut. Giving 2008 Total Giving in AZ (actual dollars). How's our blogging?

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. 1 But let’s compare their numbers for 2008, the year for which the Chronicle recently reported. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. Why the difference?

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9 Social Media for Social Good Sites You Should know About

NetWits

Social media for social good is grassroots organizing, fundraising and impact in the digital world. Crowdrise came on the scene with a big splash in 2010. Jumo is another social media for social good platform that entered the mix in 2010. Here’s 9 “social media for social good&# websites you should check out today.

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Twitter and Nonprofits

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 Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. But should the organization as a whole put resources into a “twitter strategy&# ?

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NTEN’s Ultimate Champion: #NTENThanks David Krumlauf

NTEN

flickr: askdebra Chances are, if you've attended an NTC since 2008, you've met David Krumlauf. Since the NTEN staff has already sent him every piece of NTEN gear ever made and awarded him the NTEN award at the 2010 NTC, we wanted to do something special this time around.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. A final example is that of sissing persons support: The Extraordinaries launched a mobile application that lets users take advantage of moments of free time to volunteer via their phone.

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