Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2009

SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2008 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts. 29% of respondents reported raising over $250,000 in matching gift income in 2008. 29% of respondents reported raising over $250,000 in matching gift income in 2008. 63% raised over $50,000.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

It's important not to forget that your organization is made up of people and, therefore, consideration for the effects of the technology change on these people is important to the success of the project. Technology change is not new. The effects of a technology change on people are not new either. Communication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy. Changes in the application happen without your knowledge or consent.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. That is something I would love to see change. {

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

The findings included: 96% of respondents accept matching gifts (down from 99% in 2008), but only 60% actively ask individual donors to request matching gifts. The responses came primarily from academic institutions, but also included significant numbers from healthcare, religious, and social service organizations. in last years' survey.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

Question: What is the largest change in entrepreneurship you've seen during your 24 years teaching? Eisenmann : The Lean Startup movement swept out of Silicon Valley starting in 2008 or so and has since been embraced by entrepreneurs around the world. Essentially, they apply the scientific method to their startup by testing hypotheses.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 19, 2019

Its popularity increased as younger generations, who grew up through the 2008 financial crisis, recognized that our financial system needed big changes. . Why would they donate cryptocurrencies instead of traditional methods? It’s discussed in everything from Trump’s tweets to popular songs, TV shows and movies. What is Bitcoin?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2011

When you compare that to only one trillion text messages sent in 2008, it’s clear that text messaging is growing faster than any other Web-based communication method out there today, and yet it is a tool almost entirely untapped by the nonprofit sector. However, I believe that’s about to change dramatically.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) The geek in me thinks the Convio APIs are wicked cool, since they allow you to do client programming via AJAX, as well as more standard server-based programming.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 10, 2005

At the same time as the patent office is granting business method patents that everyone knows have tons of prior art, they are busy rejecting trademarks, based on who knows what, exactly. Case in point: the organization " Dykes on Bikes " was denied a trademark of their name because the word "dyke" was vulgar.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience. The choice of method for transferring and exchanging knowledge will depend on the audience and the message [but] knowledge is most effectively exchanged when using multiple methodsâ?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Carlyn Schulzke and Matt Hayes will discuss how current data on donor demographics impacts major-gift donations with specific emphasis on simple, safe and secure methods of attracting and engaging with cryptocurrency donors. New giving methods for your nonprofit. Full Transcript: Steven: Okay. Matt, Carlyn, I’ve got 3:00 p.m.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

Many things have changed in the last couple of months, from how we meet with donors to what we are asking them to help with. Strategize with this economic downturn in mind, not the 2008 recession. While it’s natural to look back at the recession of 2008, this is a very different economic disaster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. In order to do this, they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate about social change, but don’t work within institutional walls. Our session will explore how and why this needs to change. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

The inspiration for my talk, ”Failure Is Not An F-Word: How One Little Word Means So Much and How To Change It,” comes directly from being inspired by Peter’s ideas and wanting to translate them for the nonprofit sector. How can we encourage this as both individually and organizationally?”

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Many privacy experts argue that the recent decline in reported data breaches ( 498 in 2009 versus 657 in 2008 (PDF)) is not due to an improvement in data security practices, but rather that fewer organizations are publicly reporting such breaches. If circumstances change, it's best to be transparent to your donors.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2013

Its purpose was to reform society using reason, challenge ideas grounded in tradition and faith, and advance knowledge through the scientific method. Here are the percentages from 2008-2012: 27%, 29%, 28%, 27% and 27%. Not a lot of change right? I know this might not be enough evidence for you to change your programs.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The grant world has changed. This monumental shift of responsibility onto grant recipients could be one of the most pivotal changes in grant management in decades. What Changed: Focus on Performance Management. This change in focus is not limited to the world of federal grants.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

Outcomes usually imply changes in behavior, condition, skills, attitudes or knowledge in the individual, community or other target population. More sophisticated methods of evaluation include random controlled trials (RCTs) or the use of a logic model. However, increasingly nonprofits are moving to the practice of outcome evaluation.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Carlyn Schulzke and Matt Hayes will discuss how current data on donor demographics impacts major-gift donations with specific emphasis on simple, safe and secure methods of attracting and engaging with cryptocurrency donors. New giving methods for your nonprofit. Full Transcript: Steven: Okay. Matt, Carlyn, I’ve got 3:00 p.m.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Back in 2008, I devised a plan to outsource my New Year''s Resolutions. A critical part of the scientific method is the development of a hypothesis, which can then be tested with well controlled research. Experimonth started out as play. Once compiled, I also asked folks to vote on them, promising to do whatever the top twelve were.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. It isn’t about content, although that is important.

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See3

JANUARY 10, 2008

This is the place to go if you are interested in the intersection of film, video, documentary, web video and social change. And you should be interested — this is the most important communications method available to nonprofit organizations. It is put on by American University’s Center for Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Recently, a change in policy has allowed access. 2008 has been a record year for disasters and therefore a record year for disaster response. I think we're employing every fundraising method in the book ! So, was there lots of lost productivity equaling millions of dollars? All 700+ chapters are participating in the campaign.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It was a crisis point in the organization, and I was brought on explicitly to bring change. So that crisis point set the context for us to let go of traditional ways and be a little more creative and open to changing. We didn’t want to change the culture of COSI, which is a great asset, but how we act within that culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

But, maybe you've done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media experiments in 2008 and have gleaned some insights. The economic crisis has changed the external environment. Are you using the social media tools most efficiently and effectively given the environment , the changes in the tools, and your goals?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

In order to make change that is sustainable and scalable, additional funding sources need to be considered to help nonprofits achieve their core missions. Social entrepreneurs argue that they can be change agents in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors (Praszkier & Nowak, 2011).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." One in three. But is it right? One in four.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2011

If you've read our major donor study The Wired Wealthy: Using the Internet to Connect with Your Major and Middle Donors , published in 2008 by Convio , Sea Change Strategies , and Edge Research , then you already know a few important things about major donors: half of wired major donors say that online giving is their preferred giving method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Peter's analysis of my "method" made me stop and take a look at what my "method" really is because, certainly, it has not been strategically planned out or even really considered until now! I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health."

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. We are all after real world changes, so how do we measure our use of these tools on real world impact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

2008: How do I do it right? The Technovist raises some questions about why the fear of change holds back adoption and suggests that the resistance isn't necessarily tied to specific tools, but more about giving control of direction setting and activities to individual constituents. 2006: Why does it matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social Change Behind the FireWall submitted by Holly Ross Successful nonprofits using social media are masters of social change behind the firewall. Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

First, as with Bitcoin, the distributed ledger method is an ideal way of tying credits to individual learners’ accounts, reducing the potential for counterfeiting credits. Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009. This state of affairs makes distributed CE ledgers look very appealing.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Much has changed with regard to fundraising and “friendraising” during the 12 years I have been a professional fundraiser, the most obvious being the use of technology. In 2008, the event netted about $18,000. Adrienne D. We are all online these days whereas in 1998 it was a much more mixed bag.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

While gut-based decision-making is as natural as choosing your breakfast, I'd like offer some tips on how to recognize the patterns, and ultimately change the way your organization makes strategic decisions. Use A/B testing methods to test a single variant in your workflow. Be prepared to return to old methods if it's not working.

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