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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Research Arizona Survey Studies 40

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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Darfur Sri Lanka Liberia Colombia 100

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In 2008, the US economy was languishing in the Great Recession. Congress and President Obama came together in a rare show of collaboration to pass the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and pump nearly $800 billion dollars into the economy to stimulate jobs and support numerous public works projects.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Model Fund Social United States 53

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile.

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Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Care2

MAY 15, 2009

They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Laura: Social media is a big umbrella term that includes blogs, social networks, other online methods by which people pass your message online from person to person. All rights reserved.

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Social Media Tools Online Advocacy 34

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Participants will network and learn about other areas of practice, discuss a range of opportunities and challenges faced by different sectors, and work collaboratively to improve impact measurement. Oct 9 - 14.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

To make matters worse, Charity Navigator seemed standoffish and unwilling to work with the field or adjust its approach despite some pretty obvious shortcomings in its methods. Zooop — fast-forward to 2008: Charity Navigator gets new executive leadership in Ken Berger. Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo.

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Teach Ratio Student Classes 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This class answers the question "How to leverage the power of new social technology to effectively create real social good." The theoretical framework, " Dragonfly Effect: Mindset and Method " is geared towards helping students create a project with a clear single, focused goal to cultivate social good. What is a good collaborative goal?

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Classes Celebrate Cambodia Exercise 95

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. . Collaboration. I invite you to share your thoughts and reactions in the comments. But first, some context. . Coordination.

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Social Media Story Evaluation Media 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The project is in its second year and I’ve been working in collaboration with Spitfire Strategies. In 2008, the Packard Foundation invited Voices for Utah Children to participate in the Narrative Project , which was designed to change the conversation around children’s. It’s also hard to change the. It turns out there is a.

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Children Voice Social Media Utah 106

Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

For nonprofits that have close relationships with government agencies or that want to keep track of what certain agencies or lawmakers are up to will find plenty of use for many of the tools and methods discussed during TransparencyCamp sessions. MixedInk : takes a fresh approach to collaborative writing. Thanks so much.

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Government Social Media Open Advocacy 31