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Research Friday: Lessons in board governance

ASU Lodestar Center

In April of 2011, a story broke regarding The Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization. The Central Asia Institute is only one nonprofit organization that has fallen from grace due to poor nonprofit governance. Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Those that stuck around are beginning to reap the rewards of early adoption. If your nonprofit does international development in Asia or Latin America, try Hi5 or Quepasa. As with Facebook in 2007 and Twitter in 2008, the early adopters began experimenting with location-based communities in 2009.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. " Gates Foundation also announced grants to programs aimed at helping small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge !

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Guest Post by Tom Dawkins: Ashoka’s use of Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This called for a new approach to outreach and communications and led to me joining Ashoka in late 2008 in a new position of Digital Marketing Strategist. Recent chats have looked at green entrepreneurship, mobile innovation and building cultures of social entrepreneurship on university campuses.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization. In the space of two months recently we were able to pull together capacity builders in Southeast Asia and technologists in Eastern Europe to cross traditional borders.