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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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ENA brings objectivity to the process by using the net promoter score as a tool to measure success. Working on culture isn’t a finite activity. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress.

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In early 2008, villages and cities across Kenya were ravaged with violence following the disputed re-election of the sitting Kenyan president. With Ushahidi’s help, election watchers, human rights activists, international media, and foreign governments will have a much better view of developments on the ground. The tool was Ushahidi.

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Social Impact Investments

ASU Lodestar Center

Though the practice is decades old, the term was only coined in 2008, making it a relatively new field of study. Proponents of nonprofit impact investing cite that seven out of ten high-net-worth Americans have more faith in the private sector than the nonprofit or government sectors due to its utilization of social impact investing.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. government and states like Texas. We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India.

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Welcome President Obama

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Obviously, there will be huge changes in how our government works and acts and speaks. Tags: 2008 election. I had the great pleasure of being in DC yesterday for the inauguration (though I chose to watch it inside on a big screen tv). Here’s the robots.txt file from whitehouse.gov the day before yesterday: User-agent: *.

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How can nonprofit organizations improve accountability to the populations they serve?

ASU Lodestar Center

Under pressure from multiple stakeholders, nonprofits tend to prioritize accountability to donors, foundations and governments over accountability to clients and the populations served by the organization (Ebrahim, 2003). The potential of outcome measurement for strengthening nonprofits’ accountability to beneficiaries. Gopal, R., &

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5 Foundation Trends That Will Continue in 2018

Connection Cafe

Foundations are now utilizing their data to help guide their strategy, increase their impact and continually measure their success and the success of their programs. In 2017, we saw an increase in foundation collaboration across initiatives with nonprofits, community members, corporations and governments.