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

.orgSource

Nancy MacRae, MS, CAE, ENA, describes the relationship between trust and culture. “As Associations revolve around relationships, but the shape of those connections has changed. We asked Nancy MacRae, MS, CEO of the Emergency Nurses Association , to help us frame this conversation by sharing her group’s commitment to that idea.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

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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Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

Three key themes emerged from the Summit: The power of building strong relationships to achieve your mission; the importance of flexibility, integration, and innovation to support your mission in times of change and growth; and the value of having secure data to gain deeper insights. .

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Pulitzer and the Pedestal – Or Why Crowdfunding Needs Influencer Marketing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We see examples in the ongoing success of Kickstarter , in the record number of small donations President Barack Obama collected during his 2008 campaign and, humorously, in the manner Stephen Colbert has solicited funds for his satiric Super Pac. New models like social networking and text messaging rank near the bottom.

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

And furthermore, by focusing on justification and metrics, we were distracted from the primary objective of building relationships and cultivating dialogue. Additional models of collaboration from The Collaboration Prize will be added soon. … But that was then and this is now.

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Making Museum Tours Participatory: A Model from the Wing Luke Asian Museum

Museum 2.0

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). Vi started joking with us about our relationships and hometowns while making sure we all remembered each other's names. What if it isn't what I expected?

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Where the gift economy rubber meets the road

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The fourth, and very interesting development, is the relationships that have been developing between nonprofit-focused technology providers of all stripes and open source developer communities (at this point, primarily CMS projects.) This is a model that is impossible with proprietary software. There are all sorts of worthy candidates!

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