Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. My resolutions were to: 1.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

The latest Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of American corporate giving essentially finds that companies are still giving out cash grants, but are putting more energy into product or in-kind philanthropy. For instance, 2006 saw a surge in corporate giving , while the recession year of 2008 had a gloomy giving outlook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

What seem to work was: Some influential people responding publically that they had donated. My friends responding with public questions about what else was needed or suggesting fundraising strategies. January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The charitable deduction is a vital nexus between the general public, the nonprofit organizations they support, and government policy. I tell my students that the deduction is a “tool of government”: the federal government gives us financial incentives to spend our money in certain productive ways. Urban Institute publications.

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Whole Whale

MAY 26, 2022

since 2008, with 44,000 Americans losing their lives through suicide in 2020, which was just two years ago. The helpline is available for both calls and text messages, giving options to people in crisis for calling for help. As stated in the research by PEW.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 29, 2011

Today, we welcome Marissa Theisen of Arizona Grantmakers Forum to discuss findings from the 2010 Arizona Giving Report. Arizona Grantmakers Forum (AGF) released a 2010 Arizona Giving Report earlier this year. It provides an overview of the size and scope of philanthropic activities in our state, based on 2008 IRS data.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 13, 2020

posted by Jaime Ernesto Uzeta, CEO, Public Allies. America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. The ASU Lodestar Center has operated Public Allies Arizona since 2006.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

Signing up for a Google Account gives you immediate access to a number of Google Products while a Google Profile is your online identity inside of the Googleverse. The next step is to follow the instructions to “Create a public profile.&# Sign up for a Google Account. A Google Account is different from a Google Profile.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

This morning at the Service Nation Summit , Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), represented by his niece, Caroline Kennedy, announced that they are introducing the Serve America Act of 2008. Ask 175,000 Americans to give a year of service through these Corps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These are some of the questions that Alexa Cortes Culwell and I set out to answer in our new report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy. The Giving Code examines the health of our region’s nonprofit and philanthropy sectors—their size and shape, how they operate, and where they do or do not intersect.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 27, 2017

The American spirit has long been rooted in entrepreneurial success (Acs et al, 2008). Philanthropy is the term given to the donation of time or valuables for public purposes. In the current and upcoming fiscal year, giving is projected to continue to grow (Bivin et al, 2017). Sources: Arcs, Z., Phillips, R., Audretsch, D., &

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Give Lively. Founded: 2014 Give Lively builds tech for peak fundraising experiences on both the donor and nonprofit side. And they give it all aways for free (except standard credit card fees or 3rd party costs like Stripe). Free and public API available for custom integrations. Online revenue is up for nonprofits.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The idea was that thefederal agency would work with Care2 to build support for the International Year of the Reef 2008. This contemporary public-privatepartnership gives NOAA access to 8 million targeted activists who canwork with the government for common objectives. Great work. All rights reserved.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Her work on nonprofit studies has appeared in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly , Nonprofit Management & Leadership , Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations , and Public Management Review. I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years. Meet Dr. Wang. For how long have you worked at ASU?

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2008

The idea was that the federal agency would work with Care2 to build support for the International Year of the Reef 2008. This contemporary public-private partnership gives NOAA access to 8 million targeted activists who can work with the government for common objectives.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. The type of tie depicted in a social network map depends on a study's content and purpose (Knoke and Yang, 2008) [3].

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Nonprofits follow vastly different missions from one another and the assumption is that employees who choose to work for these organizations have more intrinsic-based motivations than their partners in the other sectors (Riddles & McCandless, 2008). Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management). Ridder, H., &

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Mulligan : This really came into focus for me after the 2008 financial crisis. It’s far more economical for the company and far better for society to give existing workers the skills needed to do the work the company needs done. It is going to take a true public/private partnership to make the re-skilling of our workforce a success.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 know danah boyd. She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. That’s super depressing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

at 10:52 am I hate giving my Google password to any web site that’s not at google.com. Given the widespread problem with phishing schemes, it’s disturbing that web apps are training users that it’s OK to give a new site your email username/password. 4 Ade 12.18.07 5 Jay 12.18.07

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet. Flash forward four and a half years. Executives have come a long way in understanding the Social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

It goes beyond what is known as “ newsjacking ,” to analyze public reaction and also have the agility to strike while the iron is hot. (2) It is a combination of public dare combined with something outrageous. I chronicled some of these back in 2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. So here goes. I got involved in Linux a long time ago. would all be free (libre).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. Prior experiences at each stage of a company’s life cycle , from seed-stage startup to mature public corporation, is valuable because entrepreneurs will know what management challenges to expect when their venture reaches that stage.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

But once you put that data out there, and you have contacts who can see it, you’ve lost control of that data – any of your contacts could make that data about you public. Truth be told, there is nothing on my LinkedIn or Facebook profiles that isn’t public knowledge, except who my contacts are. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I’m not sure it’s possible to write this blog post without looking like a grammar Nazi, but I’m going to give it a whirl. Before I wind my way to my point, let me give a couple examples of how the words we use signal whether we are in with the cool kids or outside in the cold. Nonprofit Quarterly (a leading trade publication).

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

It's not often that four professional online fundraisers give you a notebook's worth of great ideas from their own programs, then repeatedly instruct you to ignore them. All those tried-and-true strategies you read about in case studies, blogs and, yes, this venerable online publication? What gives? Could be the audience.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Mulligan : This really came into focus for me after the 2008 financial crisis. It’s far more economical for the company and far better for society to give existing workers the skills needed to do the work the company needs done. It is going to take a true public/private partnership to make the re-skilling of our workforce a success.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. It’s simply not enough to say “Plone feels more secure&# without giving something concrete. at 1:55 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Strauss 04.03.09

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s also worth noting that these time estimates do not include website maintenance, e-newsletter publication, donate now campaign management, or group texting and text-to-give campaigns, so pick and choose carefully based on what your resources allow. It’s better to utilize a few tools very well than many tools poorly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

From our perspective, having a close tight integration, gives the community a lot more options and allows folks to build modules that stitch the two together. You can install a free trail and give it a spin. To some extent it also depends on how open the CMS is with regard to extensibility. at 2:34 pm @Lobo: exactly!

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See3

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

If you didn’t help Beth win, you can still give $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation online and help kids in Cambodia.) The whole giving competition thing is complicated and I am not sure it’s healthy. The whole giving competition thing is complicated and I am not sure it’s healthy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

How does giving resources to nonprofits to help them understand how to use web stats to do internal assessment of web strategy inconsistent with choosing not to publish raw web stats? I don’t quite understand why you won’t give the same advice to Holly. For one thing, feeding people is not what NTEN does.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. Putting the Public Back in Public Media Think NPR and PBS are just broadcasters?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2008, with support from the California Emerging Technology Fund , we established a formal digital divide program and, with the help of our community partners, connected more than 10,000 previously disconnected homes to broadband Internet. We had distributed more than 25,000 computers to 1,000+ nonprofits.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman MAR 12, 2008 Why do people give charity?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

from pitching your cause to donors and funding agencies, to delivering services to members and clients; and from seeking public support and the ear of decision-makers, to collaborating with other organizations in projects of common interest. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM.

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