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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Trust isn’t a challenge that is currently top of mind for association leaders. We asked Nancy MacRae, MS, CEO of the Emergency Nurses Association , to help us frame this conversation by sharing her group’s commitment to that idea. All of the association’s activities and initiatives are grounded in the ideals that are outlined below.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue?

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Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

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Next, the Summit featured a conversation between Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation , a $16 billion international human welfare and social justice philanthropic organization, and Dr. Una Osili , Associate Dean for Research and International Programs at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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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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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A growth and innovation simulation model shows that increasing the FLOSS share of software investment from 20% to 40% would lead to a 0.1% Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. …• Increased FLOSS use may provide a way for Europe to compensate for a low GDP share of ICT investment relative to the US.

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PCs for People Brings More Great Refurbished Computers to Nonprofits through TechSoup

Tech Soup

In 2008, volunteer Casey Sorensen became PCs for People's first executive director. PCs for People is one of the few nonprofit refurbishers to obtain National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) AAA data sanitization certification. Going National. He introduced significant innovations.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0 gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc. Bottom line: Kintera takes some important steps to open up their application.

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