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What is private? What is public?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. Just send the company your e-mail list and tell it what social networking sites those on your list are using, their demographics, the numbers of friends they have, how many widgets they’re using, even their interests. What is public?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

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. The "Fall Festival" advertised on their homepage is for 2008, and the "events" link opens up to a May 2009 calendar. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] American Humanics: An Elite Group Research Friday: Do you feel the force of the demo. We welcome your comments and feedback. 1] In the past few decades, the nonprofit workforce has become increasingly professionalized.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008. E-mail marketing. June 2008 (9). May 2008 (9). April 2008 (14). March 2008 (15). February 2008 (15). January 2008 (17). Copyright © 2008.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Lost Your Tax-Exemption? What Next ?

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2008 the IRS instituted the 990-N that requires those with $25,000 or less income to annually file; this is a postcard form. American Humanics: An Elite Group Research Friday: Do you feel the force of the demo. These smaller nonprofits were not required to file a year-end information report. Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

ASU Lodestar Center

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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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: The cockroach under the refrigerator.

ASU Lodestar Center

Numbers from more recent studies, like the 2008 Report on Charitable Confidence by the Brookings Institution, show that public confidence in the sector has risen somewhat since then, but is still disturbingly low—and projected to stay that way. American Humanics: An Elite Group Research Friday: Do you feel the force of the demo.