Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. On the site, social entrepreneurs propose their idea or project, set a funding goal, and identify a “tipping point.” Why Has Fundraising Online Shifted so Quickly?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Listen Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life. Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. Some are calling it impact investing. I’ve lifted this from their website. . "To

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Let's say, for example, that you need to understand if your low-income housing counseling services are meeting the demand in your San Francisco neighborhood. You could really make a case for more funding then, couldn't you? 3,148 counseling sessions. 2,924 placements. Step 5: Make it Pretty. Birds Saved.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2016

Often, engaging in advocacy means a connection to public funding. Grants and other agency funding may get pulled from legislative budgets due to the need to cut programs. San Francisco, California, United States: Jossey-Bass. Nonprofit Orgnizations: Theory, Management, Policy (1st ed.). 3] & [4]Crutchfield, L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

Next week should be officially be named “Nonprofit Techie Week” in San Francisco! Organizations that use innovation to fuel their missions are leading the pack in the quest for funding and other resources. Next week should be officially be named “Nonprofit Techie Week” in San Francisco!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

If you have suggestions for people for me to interview for future shows, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com, or leave a comment below. Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder of Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

February 18, 2008 was the 2nd anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast ! A big thanks to everyone who listens to the program and reads the interview transcripts here on Have Fun * Do Good. Over the past two years I have had the privilege of interviewing 30 "Big Visionaries." Their stories are the fuel that keeps me going.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

(Ilyse is now the Communications Director for MoveOn.org) Listen Read Steve Williams, Co-founder and Executive Director of POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) Listen Read Anna Lappé, co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen and co-founder of the Small Planet Fund. Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

In a packed room at the 2009 NTC in San Francisco, LeVar Burton loomed large. But Sam Parry from Environmental Defense Fund had the opposite experience. At least, it did in late 2008. Marc Ruben, M+R Strategic Services. Brian Dill from Earthjustice, one of the panelists, saw the same thing at his organization.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

Find funding for advocacy – The legislative process can often be slow and deliberate. Coupled with a demand for ‘instant gratification’ and payoff of advocacy investments, maintaining funding for advocacy efforts can sometimes be difficult. San Francisco, California, United States: Jossey-Bass. [3] 3] Kingdon, J.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. In 2008, the event netted about $18,000. Fundraising Events.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Twelve organizations focused on peace and human security are appealing to their constituents to vote early and often, in a bid to win the grand prize of a $100,000 grant from Ploughshares Fund. Every dollar “voted” is a tax-deductible donation to the group voted for, with nothing taken off the top by Ploughshares Fund.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In January, Cristi was named one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for 2008 by Women's eNews. I came back to the States after working in Nepal, and I took a job as a feature writer in San Francisco. When I was back in San Francisco, in my cushy feature writer job, I just couldn't get that out of my head.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Launched in 2008 to assist individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to societal challenges, the program has invited proposals around a single topic since 2017. Open Society Foundations announces 2021 fellows. September 23, 2021 The Open Society Foundations has announced the 2021 cohort of Open Society Fellows.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo. Global Fund for Community Foundations / Johannesburg, (Int.) AFP / San Francisco, CA / Not available. YTH / San Francisco, CA / Not available. General / #fcny / @FastCompany. 2016 MNN Annual Conference. 2016 MNN Annual Conference. 11/28/2016.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. She has co-authored publications on fair taxation, housing and the racial wealth divide.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

It grew out of a pioneer online community in the San Francisco Bay Area called The Well , the acronym for The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This is a fresh change because ever since the economic downturn of 2008-09, Americans have invariably chosen economic growth over the environment, except for immediately after the BP oil spill in May 2010. The project is funded by municipalities and waste management companies who pay a monthly fee for real time data in special format.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

" --Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. I learned about Frida Kahlo. I say that because I've gone to so many artists' meetings. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. One of the women that stands out is actually someone who participated in our 2008 training, which took place in Kenya. We will be hosting our second-annual fundraising gala, called Weaving the Worlds , in the Presidio of San Francisco on May 26th.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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