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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? Defourny et al.,

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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

Once you have looked out for the safety and well being of your employees by implementing work from home, social distancing, and community hygiene, it is critical that you turn your attention to your organization’s future fiscal health. For example, donations to food banks in 40 cities increased by 2.2 This decline is not anecdotal.

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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?

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Happy Thanksgiving: Check out #Goodspotting and EpicThanks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stacey is one who launched the first social media infused gratitude campaign during Thanksgiving back in 2008,successfully raising money for a school project Tanzania. To ensure the school is off the ground & ready to open by the time next term begins in January 2012, we aim to raise $15K more by ThanksGiving Day here in the US.

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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It also creates a resource called the Horizon Navigator an online, open-content database of free research on emerging technologies, is a dynamic social media platform overlying an innovative set of intelligent search tools and a comprehensive collection of resources. The State of Learning Analytics in 2012: A Review and Future Challenges.

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How Nonprofits can Use Analytics with Advocacy

Connection Cafe

Some social media campaigns are empowering; others are dispiriting. As one example, after the 2016 election stories circulated online about how Donald Trump’s digital consultants, Cambridge Analytica, psychographically profiled the entire electorate, then supposedly delivered precision-microtargeted propaganda to swing the election.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

” In other words, if the new PC market grows by by 9% worldwide in 2012 as is forecast by the business research firm IDC , then the used PC market will grow as well. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent.