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Open content business models

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open content business models December 1, 2007 I’m at the Open Translation event, and we’ve just had a great session on open content business models.

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How the Pandemic Has Changed Pro Bono

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The pandemic pushed the social sector to make game-changing shifts in community programming, funding models and organizational leadership. In the height of the 2008 recession, skills-based volunteering exploded across the corporate and nonprofit sectors. New Skills-Based Volunteering Models.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

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Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

CiviCRM continues to mature, and is providing an interesting and important new model for nonprofit software development. So what tools did you come to depend on in 2008? Songbird was a buggy mess just a year ago, but with the recent release of 1.0, it’s absolutely an application to get to know. It’s kinda cool.

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

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September 11 The 2008 mortgage crisis The Great Recession The 2016 Election The COVID pandemic The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tyre Nichols January 6 The current inflationary economy This lowering of esteem for organizations, whose solid reputations were previously taken for granted, is not anecdotal.

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Developing a Social Media Plan: Lessons from Election 2008

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Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. For the first time in U.S. Tools you can Use.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. Second, model out and scenario plan for revenue declines of 5, 10 and 15 percent.

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