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Meet the 2012 Digital Storytelling Challenge Judges

Tech Soup

Submissions for the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge have closed, but the fun has just begun! Danny Alpert, Executive Producer of See3 , is a producer, director, and editor whose films have been nominated for Academy and national Emmy Awards, and have aired on PBS, HBO, A&E, and at festivals around the world.

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Diversity in fundraising

ASU Lodestar Center

The ‘Daring to Lead’ study found that 82 percent of executive directors were white, that recently hired executives were just as likely to be white as their longer-serving colleagues and that executive directors under 40 were only slightly less likely to be white.”. in History from Arizona State University in 2008 and earned an M.A.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. This decline is not anecdotal. percent in 2009. and México.

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2013 NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award: Lauren-Glenn Davitian

NTEN

We thought it only fitting that we share a video to document her impact over the years: Past Lifetime Achievement Winners: 2012: Rob Stuart , Evolve Strategies. 2008: Vince Stehle. She is a well-known spokeswoman on behalf of public telecommunications and first amendment issues both locally and in the state capital.

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Research Friday: Lessons in board governance

ASU Lodestar Center

Although it had been in existence for 13 years, the organization had no audited financial statements, had only three board members (including the executive director), was not clear about how donor money was being spent, and had a clear conflict of interest with the executive director promoting personal book sales through the nonprofit.

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Getting It Right at the GEO Conference in Seattle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Is grantmaking getting smarter? He’s the managing editor of the White Courtesy Telephone blog.

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