Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

Open Source 100

Open Source Convio Nonprofit Hype 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5 Frogloop Blog.

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Philanthropy Results Studies North America 51

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. According to their website, they get state money to provide services to adults and children with developmental disabilities. This is great news. They reported $1.2

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Its job is to collect and supply eye tissue to surgeons in Alabama, as well as many other places, quickly. The Alabama Eye Bank operates the Global Sight Network , a service the eye bank started in 2008 to provide corneas prepared through long-term preservation to health-care facilities in developing countries. TechSoup Resources.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Children love it. The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 29, 2008

My friend Beth Kanter, of Beth's Blog , is working hard to win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation by January 31, 2008 as part of the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

I personally have about 30-40 years left and two children for whom I want a hell of a better world, so let’s get going :-)but not with ideologies (the ones on the left are almost worse than those on the right) and delusions as to our own crap, but with vision, clarity, integrity, and demand for excellence all around.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. They also have a homework help program for school children and offer a variety of digital literacy computer classes.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. They also have a homework help program for school children and offer a variety of digital literacy computer classes.

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Library Case Study Studies Instruction 40

NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

Read about all the things Beaconfire will be doing to make their SXSW lounge a welcoming place for techies-for-good, and see how you can contribute. Robert Weiner has been documenting this type of SPAM and sharing with the community since 2008. Don't be fooled by aggressive domain marketers from abroad!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2016

By 2015, the Elks Lodge had become a haven for LGBT parents of young children. The only public pool in the city of Santa Cruz was closed in the 2008 recession for four years. During that dry spell, a few enterprising families sought another place to take a dip. Is there still a place for you in it? I didn’t get it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December. It's your choice.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

One thing hobbling the project has been that it took place well after the flurry of U.S. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. How the Project Got Going.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. ” Those outings can include activities for families and children, and can pave the way for additional gifts. .”

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 15, 2009

I recommend you listen to his December 22, 2008 show where he created a montage of his favorite quotes from guests. They often interview children as sources for their stories. He starts most shows with a few minutes of news from the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, and then transitions into an interview. Listen/subscribe on iTunes.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it?

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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Again and again, we tried to balance the wackiness and spontaneity of the event with the surety that people were in the right place, that we could help them, etc. In some ways, this event reminded me of the Ontario Science Centre's YouTube Meetup in 2008 --a real-time, physical event to support an online community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2007

December 10, 2008 will mark the 60th anniversary of the General Assembly of the United Nations' adoption of the Declaration. The Hub is a place to find, upload and take action on human rights-related media. . • The law is the same for everyone; it should be applied in the same way to all.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

low-income household with children. They're a busy place. It became a commercial company in 2008. One of their most current philanthropic projects is Connect 2 Compete , which in a big new digital inclusion program that aims to provide a PC and broadband Internet in every U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. What are the 5 things should get into place while you are waiting for your YouTube Nonprofit Channel to be approved? It is authentic, it is caring, and it is beautiful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. In January, Cristi was named one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for 2008 by Women's eNews. In some of the places where we work, women are very often not in professional roles whatsoever, much less the media. I have a story that you have to hear.'"

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. First of all, these children have taught themselves. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. And then there are other children. Oh, my gosh.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. The Spy Museum was a dream place for me. While now the blog's a big part of my life, at the time, it just felt like an experiment--a place for me to develop my ideas in a public setting.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This initiative has been made possible through collaboration with Tsofen, a local nonprofit organization launched in 2008 by Arab and Jewish founders to promote high-tech careers in Arab society as a lever for economic development and the creation of a shared society for Arabs and Jews in Israel. Connect with her on Linkedin.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Here I am sitting with this person who is a young professional without children, someone who would never have engaged with COSI before we got involved in social media. world and have been hosting social media cafes , both here at the museum and in other places in the community. I was blown away. He did not want anything in return.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

In the long term, we're dedicated to this workshop being a place for museums to collaborate with one another, to pool creative resources to develop exhibits that can be implemented uniquely at different institutions. Second Life may be a better creative brainstorming tool--a place to get inspired--than a design package.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

I’m on a panel with Brian Kennedy, VP of Marketing for Children Now and Johanna Morariu, Director, Innovation Network. I’ll be facilitating a plenary panel with: Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Founder, Chairman Emeritus and former Chairman (1998-2008) of SV2 (Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund) and author of Giving 2.0.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 5, 2020

Holidayheroes.org , a local Chicago nonprofit whose mission is to provide joy and entertainment to children who are seriously ill, created a Double Good virtual fundraiser. The project started in 2008, and they’ve raised over $50 million doing these types of things for sick and injured kids through online gaming fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

2008), in which he emphasizes the importance of designing evaluations to insure their usefulness, rather than simply creating long reports that may never get read or never result in any practical changes. . The big idea in the book is described below: Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

While I was on sabbatical at Tuck/Dartmouth in the spring of 2008, I wrote about the things I learned from students and colleagues. Gary Hamel, a strategy professor recently wrote "If you're a CIO, you need to spend a lot of time out on the fringes of the Web because that's where the innovation's taking place. The Dartmouth Green.

Mobile 81

Mobile Phone PPT Green 81

Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. They are places where you can buy and sell cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency can be sent into those accounts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Women hold these toxins in their body, and this is what they have to pass on to their children. It is about a future that is possible for their children, and for future generations. One of the women that stands out is actually someone who participated in our 2008 training, which took place in Kenya. It is about joy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Note from Beth: As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor of designing and facilitating a “networked capacity building project” for a cluster of grantees, state-based groups, to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. Life Elevated.” It turns out there is a.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. They are places where you can buy and sell cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency can be sent into those accounts.

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