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Dreamforce 2008 post-mortem - back to the cheap seats

Judi Sohn

Like a solution in search of a problem. I finally got to meet folks from the Nonprofit Salesforce NPSF Google group that I had gotten to know online, reconnected with friends from the Philadelphia and New York user group communities and with people I met at NTEN’s NTC last year. “Facebook?

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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

Tech Soup

Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. The Relevancy of the Internet Problem. He said that the first order of business is to address what he calls, "the relevancy of the Internet problem."

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How to Leverage Celebrities for Fundraising - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Some prominent celebrities in the nonprofit world are Bono ( One Campaign ), Mary Tyler Moore ( Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation ), Bon Jovi ( Philadelphia Soul Charitable Foundation ), and Michael J. They have changed the perception of the AIDS crisis to that of an ongoing problem, rather than as a short-term international crisis.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo. Net Impact / Philadelphia, PA / $509. Join us November 3-5 in Philadelphia, a city where revolutions are made, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. National LGBT Task Force / Philadelphia, PA / $325. General / #fcny / @FastCompany. State/Local.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Compounding the normal difficulties of raising capital, platform cooperatives face additional problem of larger start-up costs. In this regard, the problem for platform cooperatives is not so much technical or financial as it is political. 9</sup). 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S. trillion in assets.

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