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Tidbits

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 Tidbits September 19, 2008 Here are a few interesting tidbits that have come my way over the course of the last few days There is a new online fundraising platform, founded by an ex-Convio person.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. At Omidyar Network there’s been an effort to write proposals for 9 $5,000 grants. Watching the collaboration of people across time zones developing these proposals has really been inspiring to me.

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Busting the Overhead Myth: How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

This is an outdated model that limits the impact and diversity of the work in the nonprofit sector. Do not submit a grant proposal that only covers a portion of the program; submit a proposal asking to cover all the expenses, including supplies and salary of the program director. Gregory, A.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. 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. Trust me.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? What is it?

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. It is the newest fundraising model of these three, and spreading wildly as a way to get individual projects or ideas off the ground. Learn more below, and RSVP today to reserve your space.

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Daily News, Daily Blues

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The problem of course is the collapse of the traditional business model of the newspaper. In that model advertisers pay publishers enough to support the news-gathering operation because advertising in a newspaper with decent reporting was the best way to get their copy in front of readers. This is not a business model that makes sense.

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