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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. These folks do astonishing work. So much innovation.

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The New Roadmap For Entrepreneurial Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

It’s a must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, and a roadmap charting the path to startups success. 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.

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Busting the Overhead Myth: How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

Use Better Metrics to Show Impact (external): It is time to retire the organizational expenses pie-chart that has been used obsessively in the nonprofit sector, and replace it with stories on mission impact (Guidestar, 2016). This is an outdated model that limits the impact and diversity of the work in the nonprofit sector. Gregory, A.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data. " Map Kibera is a stellar example of "public participation GIS" -- involving a community in the creation of a map.

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Quick Hit: A Love Letter to Createquity

Museum 2.0

When you want cogent arguments with charts to back them up? I also love his willingness to revisit past topics with more information, as he did after an internship at the Hewlett Foundation in 2008. The posts share cross-discipline stories ranging from dance to classical music to public art. They are rigorous.

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Attention All Shoppers: Online Fundraising Metrics Are In!

NTEN

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. By many measures, online fundraising had a red letter year in 2008: Online donors are younger and have higher incomes than traditional, primarily direct mail donors. Get the report and read it.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data. " Map Kibera is a stellar example of "public participation GIS" -- involving a community in the creation of a map.

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