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OCTOBER 18, 2021

In the height of the 2008 recession, skills-based volunteering exploded across the corporate and nonprofit sectors. As a diverse swath of organizations are looking for of infrastructure supports, skills-based models must be diversified to meet changing sector needs, just as they did in 2008. New Skills-Based Volunteering Models.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2009

philanthropy is that total giving for 2008 was estimated to have exceeded $300 billion for the second year in a row, for a total of $307.65 While giving to groups classified as Religious or Public-Society Benefit increased by approximately 1.5 The good news from the annual GivingUSA report (PDF) on U.S. percent adjusted for inflation).

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

corporations are seeing benefits from adopting web 2.0 They are seeing “measurable business benefits, including more innovative products and services, more effective marketing, better access to knowledge, lower cost of doing business, and higher revenues. There are benefits, after all. So here goes with the big statement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Meet the patrons - benefits and risks of social networking in fundraising. For more on what's happening with different giving platforms, see Social Actions 9/12/08 roundup and Lucy Bernholz's philathanthropy predictions for Nov/Dec 2008. can we by-pass charitable bureaucracy? second wave philanthropy???

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Now your entire org can benefit from tools like "Mail Goggles", which promises to stop you from sending regrettable e-mails after a couple of drinks. Mercy Corps' Action Center to End World Hunger. Wow, some people take this zombie thing a little too seriously. Google Labs is now available to Google Apps users.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

No one understands the value of pro bono volunteerism , and the benefits to everyone involved more than Lindsay Gruber, President, and CEO of Taproot Foundation. We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. Is there a collective benefit to the company?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 As a result, many organizations cut back on services, made drastic budget cuts—including to employee benefit programs and staffing—to stay afloat, or outright closed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

So, if fair use adds more economic benefit than copyrights – what would open source do? Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. economic growth and almost 11 million American jobs. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 26, 2021

YLP wanted to know which members of the community are benefitting from the service and how many families and children are being supported. YLP came to our team at Economic Change CIC in 2019 because they needed a system that could be easily accessed by individual pantries to record memberships and visits on a day-to-day basis.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Nonprofits follow vastly different missions from one another and the assumption is that employees who choose to work for these organizations have more intrinsic-based motivations than their partners in the other sectors (Riddles & McCandless, 2008). References. Akingbola, K. Managing human resources for nonprofits. Hoboken: Wiley.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

However, one good strategy is to include a photo that represents the benefit of winning the experience, such as a picture of the beautiful vacation destination the winning bidder will get to visit or the delicious food they’ll enjoy if they win a restaurant gift certificate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

Nonprofits use the sites to build their online brand and supporter base, and the companies in turn then benefit from having tens of thousands respectable, well-known nonprofits promoting their sites and tools to millions of supporters (a.k.a. Flickr partnered with TechSoup in 2008 to launch Flickr for Good. potential consumers).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Because these applications are not proprietary, and anyone can get their hands on them, and install and use them, this means that nonprofits get the benefit. This is going to make these projects better, and make support for them more available.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

They’ll benefit in the same ways you do. It’s one of your most effective marketing tools, but the 2008 GettingAttention.org survey showed that 72% of nonprofit organizations don’t have a tagline or rate theirs as performing poorly. Now it’s *your* turn to select the best. Please share this invitation with your grantees!

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Qgiv

MAY 14, 2021

Mark Becker founded Cathexis Partners in 2008 to help nonprofit organizations get the most from their existing technology tools, implement new technology to address gaps, and find the best overall approach to using technology to support their missions. Looking for more resources to help you make the most of your next peer-to-peer fundraiser?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

I tout the benefits of open source software. It sometimes tastes yucky. July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. I provide that clear channel, so both sides benefit. The other arm is learning.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Michelle, the consultant March 27, 2008 Someone mentioned to me that from what I write on my blog, she wouldn’t know what it is that I actually do in my consulting work.

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Qgiv

JUNE 7, 2021

Mark Becker founded Cathexis Partners in 2008 to help nonprofit organizations get the most from their existing technology tools, implement new technology to address gaps, and find the best overall approach to using technology to support their missions. Looking for more resources to help you make the most of your next peer-to-peer fundraiser?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

My point here was completely pragmatic – if nonprofits have decided to take the OpenSocial plunge, why not share what they’ve done, and collaborate so that many more can benefit. That was all. Ultimately, OpenSocial doesn’t do what I’d like it to do.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Founded: 2008 MobileCause has a pretty simple goal: Help nonprofits raise more money with less time and effort. Organizations operating on an international level benefit from the ability to accept payment in multiple currencies, and currently 35,000 organizations hailing from 40 countries are represented on this platform. MobileCause.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

Technology providers are beginning to really invest in free and open source platforms, and it looks like everyone is benefiting – the organization, the clients, the developer communities, and, by extension, then, other providers and users of those projects. And so the feedback cycle keeps going.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Jumo’s received a very warm welcome and a lot of press being that the founder Chris Hughes was also the co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign. According to Jumo they are “a social network connecting individuals and organizations who want to change the world.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

I’ve been slowly but surely realizing that the time and energy I’m putting into Facebook is likely benefiting Facebook more than it is benefiting me. Your pictures, videos and everything else is stranded in a walled garden, cut off from the rest of the web.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2012

Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. Additionally, stipended volunteers reported higher perceived benefits of participation than non-stipended volunteers. As part of a. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In a follow up email, I asked him to share his story and describe the benefits and challenges of being a 501-c3 created in the social media cloud. We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008. I wasn't familiar with the concept of a fiscal sponsor at that point (Heck!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

My point is that companies like Microsoft have almost nothing to do with providing good software — the marginal gain from selling better software is miniscule in comparison with the potential income from spreading some FUD and reaping the benefits as everyone re-evaluates their risk positions. 2 Michelle Murrain 06.03.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

January 16, 2008 I’ve had a few interesting things happen lately which is making me wonder about what’s happening with open source, and the perceptions of open source in the nonprofit sector. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

That power is that they are able to pass along a benefit to their donors, or at least the ones that itemize their individual income taxes. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. He is Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit Management & Leadership. think tank.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

The twin book project sold over 2000 fairy story books in 2007 and more than 1000 rural students benefited from it. In April 2008, 1KG More registered as a company and aimed to operate as a social enterprise model. Now 1KG More has five full-time staff and a stable group of volunteers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

And what are some of the social benefits and impact that may result from such a relationship? The Lavelle Fund also supports programs benefiting the developing world. We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Unless it provides concrete benefits than there’s no point. Do it, just pull the plug and do it. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

The ability to login is just a benefit to people who want the ability to search within their own network and stay up to date on what data changes on the web about people they know. As a search engine, users never have to sign-up to get value from Spock.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 13, 2020

America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. Now should be no different. A massive expansion of service is required to meet today’s challenges.

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