ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

As a result, an emerging method of investment, called social impact investment, has investors monitor the outcomes produced by their donations while simultaneously producing profit from their investment. Though the practice is decades old, the term was only coined in 2008, making it a relatively new field of study. Monitor Institute.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Shrinking government budgets and greater competition for ever-fewer dollars are reducing the scale and effectiveness of nonprofits in meeting the nation’s growing challenges and intractable problems.

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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. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? Trust me.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In 2008, the US economy was languishing in the Great Recession. The problems covered the gamut from bid-rigging, theft, and false statements to embezzlement. These methods would also pave the way for new analytical tools to coordinate audit resolution across agencies and funding periods.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems. There are big problems with tracking and verifying a learners’ CE balance. Think of those Google Alerts you excitedly set up in 2008 and haven’t read since 2009.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2011

If you've read our major donor study The Wired Wealthy: Using the Internet to Connect with Your Major and Middle Donors , published in 2008 by Convio , Sea Change Strategies , and Edge Research , then you already know a few important things about major donors: half of wired major donors say that online giving is their preferred giving method.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:36PM | by Eric Rardin How to Measure the Value of an Online Supporter Over here at Care2 we get this question a lot.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:36PM | by Eric Rardin How to Measure the Value of an Online Supporter Over here at Care2 we get this question a lot.

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See3

MARCH 27, 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 Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

There is a chicken and the egg problem. 2008: How do I do it right? For many years this was the way to go but now because of increased and easily accessible social connectivity a top down method feels stale and is increasingly inefficient in creating social change. I'm thinking about the interview that I had with Jon Udell.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

The problem is that the same challenges apply in any medium -- you need to cut through the noise, develop a list of supporters, get those supporters to pay attention, and encourage those supporters to do something. I also wish there was some method of communication within the supporter network aside from the Wall. Crowd-sourcing.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

The problem is that the same challenges apply in any medium -- you need to cut through the noise, develop a list of supporters, get those supporters to pay attention, and encourage those supporters to do something. I also wish there was some method of communication within the supporter network aside from the Wall. Crowd-sourcing.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

How do you avoid the “echo chamber&# problem of seeing the same people talking about the same things? We’re talking the big names at every social media conference, and they have very little new to say over the past few years (with the exception of my colleague Beth Kanter who is always exploring new methods and approaches).

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

I believe the reason weve not seen such efforts already is the relative newness and uncertainty of these methods. We all know how bad the economy is and this can solve a few problems but lets not forget that with every good thing comes 2 bad thing. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I believe the reason weve not seen such efforts already is the relative newness and uncertainty of these methods. We all know how bad the economy is and this can solve a few problems but lets not forget that with every good thing comes 2 bad thing. September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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sgEngage

JANUARY 20, 2011

If you want to know what’s on the horizon for increased security methods, then look to Europe. This may cause problems with donors in non-US countries. Look for 3-D Secure and newer security measures to become more widely used. Many of their innovations eventually make their way to the United States and Canada.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Turns out that part of the problem was that many nonprofits didnt understand functional expense accounting or reporting rules. To make matters worse, Charity Navigator seemed standoffish and unwilling to work with the field or adjust its approach despite some pretty obvious shortcomings in its methods. Accountability and transparency.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

The Bandwagon Effect In 2008, we launched a "single-sign on" method using Facebook Connect that allows our visitors to use their Facebook credentials to log in. Collect clear data on the impact of several distinct approaches to the problem you're trying to resolve. Be prepared to return to old methods if it's not working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

2008), in which he emphasizes the importance of designing evaluations to insure their usefulness, rather than simply creating long reports that may never get read or never result in any practical changes. . It isn't a pharmacy metaphor of finding a pill to solve the problem. But first, some context. .

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Historically, we've accomplished this through the tried and true method of paper evaluations. In 2008, when paper evaluations were the only option, we used approximately 50 full page surveys per session x 6 sessions, per room (so roughly 300 full pages per room over the course of the conference).

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

At this year's AASP Summit, presenters will focus on cutting-edge technology and business methods using case studies. Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo. Association of Advancement Services Professionals (AASP) / Chicago, IL / $400. General / #AASP16 / @advserv. 10/26/2016. General / #fcny / @FastCompany.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

But the problem is without those first "friends who become donors" the "donors who will become fundraisers" will never exists. November 6, 2007 | Karen Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Which, makes sense, because that is really what makes social media unique and where, I think, it has the largest potential.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

But the problem is without those first "friends who become donors" the "donors who will become fundraisers" will never exists. November 6, 2007 | Karen Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Which, makes sense, because that is really what makes social media unique and where, I think, it has the largest potential.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Going out on a limb November 6, 2008 I’m going to go out on a really thin limb here, and feel free to saw it off in the comments. :-) If you haven’t been to change.gov yet, you need to go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

In 2008, the Packard Foundation invited Voices for Utah Children to participate in the Narrative Project , which was designed to change the conversation around children’s. Often, our approach to social media had been the “spaghetti method” – we threw things up. possible solutions to the problem of intergenerational poverty.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

For nonprofits that have close relationships with government agencies or that want to keep track of what certain agencies or lawmakers are up to will find plenty of use for many of the tools and methods discussed during TransparencyCamp sessions. March 19, 2009 | Kristin Wolff Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Thanks so much.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

In doing a little research for this post, I came across the East Side Bloggers 2008 , a blog by 10th graders at East Side Community High School. We need to immediately recognize and address this problem. Straight answers to critical questions - for the most part, that is what both the Levin Amendment and the Warner Amendment call for.

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