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Major Gift Fundraising: Facts and Opinions from a Recovering Fundraising Consultant

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Prior to founding NOZA, Craig founded South Coast Strategies, a fundraising consulting firm. According to the annual GivingUSA Foundation statistics (PDF) charitable giving in the U.S. topped $307 billion in 2008. Craig graduated from U.C. Santa Barbara in 1995 and then spent two years as Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay.

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Last minute tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenOffice.org is coming closer to doing PDF import. In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. This was to appease the European Commission. This is great news. Happy dance, anyone?

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Why I won’t be buying a Kindle

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

odt, rich text, pdf) Allows any vendor of books (like Lulu, for instance) or any independent author to provide books for the device. I want something like a Kindle that: Has wifi (EVDO would be a nice addition, but some of us live in areas where the EVDO network does not go) Allows me to share books with people. Sorry, Amazon.

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Leading the Way Toward Digital Inclusion

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Today he runs his own consulting company, Adapt ∞ Impact , which serves the nonprofit community exclusively. In 2008, SDFF received a grant from the California Emerging Technology Fund, which enabled SDFF to fully develop their digital divide program and expand the number of families they could reach. NTIA Toolkit (PDF).

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Prizes to Promote Open Government

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Last week the White House issued a new memorandum titled " Guidance on the Use of Challenges and Prizes to Promote Open Government " (PDF) — a further step towards citizen engagement. Capturing the Promise of Philanthropic Prizes " (PDF). State Department. .: A closer look shows the realm isn't all that new.

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! I’m going to watch this pretty carefully. issue as they see it.