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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

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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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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

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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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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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Less abstractly, the CE business of non-profit associations is threatened by for-profit CE providers that undercut the associations’ prices. What should bother us is the possibility of lower educational value being associated with the flood of cheap CE “products” into the market. Peak of Inflated Expectations.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust. Sit down with my executive director to discuss a process for a social media policy.

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Panelists: Nina Card, Scottrade, Robyn Landry, American Heart Association, Miles Sims, VP of Product Management, Small World Labs, and Michael Wilson, Founder/CEO, Small World Labs. Well look at the underlying technologies that will make this possible, how it will evolve, and the business models that will support it. Whitehouse.gov 2.0:

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Guest Post: Shaking up the Ecological Landscape

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Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). These are programs that encourage museums to conform to proven models of success (standards and best practices). 2, 2008) will be offered as a free webcast on Jan.

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How Can Nonprofit Leaders Create Effective Community Change?

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Aid programs may be necessary to benefit the individuals currently in poverty, but it does not provide a lasting solution (Dees, 2008). Scharmer (2008) accuses these failures to the blind “deeper dimension of leadership and transformational change” (Scharmer, 2008). The Nonprofit Association of Oregon. It is essential.