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Mission Statement

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. But my role in that context is much more around helping to solve specific problems, or educate in specific ways about technology options. { There are a few pieces to that challenge I might take up, on occasion. One of them, I’ll do now.

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Research Friday: Leadership Development & Performance Management - Reflections from Daring to Lead 2011

ASU Lodestar Center

Developing and maintaining such an infrastructure — the articulation of staff competencies aligned to organizational strategies; establishment of supervision processes to hire, manage, develop, and review employees; and the ongoing assessment of overall staff performance in relation to organizational outcomes — can be daunting.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced. He wanted to know how to get his kids access to tools that were affordable for them to create and edit media. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. OOo Calc integrates really nicely with databases and stuff (I know that wasn’t too articulate, but I know what I know and not what I don’t. Feel free to make a technologically accurate version of that sentence.)

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Foundation Revenue Grows 4.7 Percent

Connection Cafe

While the financial markets gradually have recovered since they crashed in 2008, a focus on providing good customer services to donors has helped generate annual giving of roughly $300 million a year over the past five years to the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Blackbaud also publishes a giving index for Canada.

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Online Communications that Don't Suck

NTEN

In July 2008, rising costs and shortages of food were in the news. We sent the first email, explaining the problem and our plan to fight it. Clearly articulate the issue -- and your plan to solve it. We test and track our content to see what generates the most interest, and then give them more of what they want. Lessons learned?

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Make New Friends, But Keep the Old - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Kelly Ronayne, the Director of Membership Data & Strategic Services at AARP put my personal discovery into perfect (and much more articulate) words in his presentation about CRM (Customer Relationship Management). Unfortunately, they aren’t thinking in terms of database integration problems or what might be convenient at a mailshop.