Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Grassroots Philanthropy by Bill Somerville and Fred Setterberg As I wrote in my review, I Want to Be a Grassroots Philanthropist!, PhilanTopic included the book on its list of Best Philanthropy-Related Books of 2008. This was probably the book that moved me the most in 2008. books 2008 activist nonprofit

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

second wave philanthropy??? For more on what's happening with different giving platforms, see Social Actions 9/12/08 roundup and Lucy Bernholz's philathanthropy predictions for Nov/Dec 2008. Will personable intermediaries and funding local issues be on the horizon for trends in 2008 year end or beyond?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

The latest Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of American corporate giving essentially finds that companies are still giving out cash grants, but are putting more energy into product or in-kind philanthropy. The Chronicle of Philanthropy has been surveying large American companies on their philanthropy annually since 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These are some of the questions that Alexa Cortes Culwell and I set out to answer in our new report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy. The Giving Code examines the health of our region’s nonprofit and philanthropy sectors—their size and shape, how they operate, and where they do or do not intersect.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

The afternoon keynote focused on philanthropy and bigger thinking than the latest Dell laptop, featuring Google’s Larry Brilliant and author Malcolm Gladwell. I left the room somewhere in the middle of a detailed description of a Dell server. I wasn’t the only one. I’ve never seen such a big crowd thin out so quickly.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion.

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Robert Weiner

MAY 5, 2010

69% of the organizations they looked at raised more online in 2009 than in 2008, while 31% raised less. The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual assessment of online giving came out in April, based on data from 176 of the largest nonprofits in the U.S. Its findings included: 14% growth in online giving overall.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 27, 2017

From this, the writer predicts the growth of entrepreneurship and philanthropy in the future of nonprofits. The American spirit has long been rooted in entrepreneurial success (Acs et al, 2008). Philanthropy is the term given to the donation of time or valuables for public purposes. The Philanthropy outllok 2017 & 2018.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Source: Philanthropy 2.0 Last week, Geoff Livingston , Qui Diaz and I posted a summary of our findings from our Philanthropy 2.0 Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. Frogloop Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008? Let's take a look.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

Seventy-nine percent said they hadn’t found ways to do so.” – Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 12, 2009. Online giving in 2008 was up 44% from 2007. Early estimates for 2009 show an increase in online donations of 46% from 2008. Mobile lists are hard to build and most new subscribers come from pitches in e-Newsletters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Let’s look at the possible factors that caused philanthropy to run wild and capture the attention of so many people, inspire them to participate, and donate to stop the disease. 5) Whacky, Goofy, and Fun: “Stunt Philanthropy” has been around for years. I chronicled some of these back in 2008.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create. We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. The Fund demonstrates the incredible social impact that private philanthropy can create through smart investing strategies and risk tolerance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2012

On a personal note, I come from a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where “people cling to their guns” as President Obama clumsily stated in the 2008 campaign. But American philanthropy has been largely absent and strangely silent.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 11, 2009

While an estimated $307 billion dollars was given to charitable causes in 2008; total fundraising declined an inflation adjusted of 5.7% The blog Tactical Philanthropy had a great post yesterday about the perspective one could bring to the news. from 2007 levels. See our full Q1 findings here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

They also have an extensive list of free or low-cost services for nonprofits and universities through their “Technology-Driven Philanthropy&# campaigns. Flickr partnered with TechSoup in 2008 to launch Flickr for Good. They also offer free advertising to nonprofits through their Google Grants Program. 3) LinkedIn. Owned by Yahoo!,

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

Includes data from Blackbaud , American Red Cross , MobileMarketer.com , and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Charity and Technology in the Online Universe This infographic from Mashable and Shane Snow puts social good into better context with donation numbers, growth charts, and some comparisons to its offline counterparts.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. Before moving to Phoenix, he was a Senior Research Associate in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, a Washington D.C. He is Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit Management & Leadership. think tank. Hager earned his Ph.D.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

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Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The first from Philanthropy Action , has the depressing title, " Social Networking and Mid-Size Nonprofits: What's the Use? " The survey is based on responses from about 200 mid-sized nonprofits (defined as having revenues between $1 and $5 million annually) between July 2008 and March 2009.

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NetWits

JUNE 9, 2011

For large nonprofits here is some even scarier news: the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported in October of 2010 that donations to the nation’s largest charities dropped 11% last year. billion in 2008, the council’s fourth annual “Run Walk Ride Thirty” study reports. The Chronicle called this the worst decline in giving in twenty years.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on such diverse subjects as Program Evaluation & Information Management, International NGOs, and Philanthropy. My main research interest is in individual and institutional philanthropy. I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years. Lili Wang, Ph.D.,

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AFP Blog

JULY 5, 2011

They also participate in Jumpstart Our Youth (JOY) -- the state's most comprehensive youth philanthropy program -- with Jobs for Maine's Graduates students statewide. The JOY program was launched in 2008 by the Unity Foundation, which is based in Unity, with funding partners UniTel Inc. and the Maine Community Foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. CircuitEditor regularly hosts Twitter Chats on the subjects of social change and philanthropy in Africa. Experiment and keep in mind that those who use Twitter regularly tend to love Twitter.

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2011

The Giving USA 2011 report is out and the team at The Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University have given plenty of data and statistics to sift through. Total charitable giving has increased in current dollars in every year since tracking began in 1954 with the exception of three: 1987, 2008, and 2009.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Next, the Summit featured a conversation between Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation , a $16 billion international human welfare and social justice philanthropic organization, and Dr. Una Osili , Associate Dean for Research and International Programs at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation (our local academic center). Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. Before moving to Phoenix, he was a Senior Research Associate in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, a Washington D.C. Nonprofit Management and Leadership (another one).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Last conducted in 2008, this study of primarily US foundations found that there was little to no change in the degree to which grantmakers incorporated practices deemed important to the success of grantees. These debates are rooted in some telling assumptions about the evolving field of philanthropy. Is grantmaking getting smarter?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2009

Last night I had the privileage of attending the awards ceremony for JustGiving ’s CEO Zarine Kharas who was awarded the RSA’s 2008 Albert Medal for ‘democratising fundraising and technology for charities’ During her excellent presentation, I started thinking about this new world we live in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2008

In the nonprofit and philanthropy world, like the economy in general, the outlook for 2009 is rather bleak. A group of nonprofit and philanthropy pundits have offered their views on the impact of the economy on the nonprofit sector. Lucy Bernholz says: "Two areas of potential impact of the crisis concern me.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 28, 2017

In 2014, the Center for Effective Philanthropy conducted a survey of 235 nonprofit leaders to identify the main practices used by nonprofit organizations to engage clients (Buteau, Gopal, & Buchanan, 2014). Retrieved from The Center for Effective Philanthropy website: [link] 08/CEP-Hearing-from-Those-We-Seek-to-Help.pdf.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, the Points of Light Foundation and the Salesforce Foundation conceived HandsOn Connect — a native Salesforce application designed specifically to make volunteering easier for employees and nonprofits — in a series of whiteboard sessions in San Francisco. By: Melissa Hill-Dees, Founding Partner of HandsOn Connect Cloud Solutions.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2016

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. Jacob Harold is president and CEO of GuideStar and Phil Buchanan is president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy. That needs to change.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The year is 2008. Our nonprofit 50l(c)(3) child advocacy agency survived the Great Recession of 2008-2013. We are cautiously optimistic that the economy, which, as it turns out, is the world economy, will right itself so that compassion, philanthropy and good works will continue as a hallmark of our communities in Arizona and beyond.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2010

billion (almost 5%) according the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College. between 2008 and 2009, according to the 2010 e-Benchmark study , though the report did note that online revenue for half of the nonprofits included in the study either held steady with 2008 or declined.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! The Future is You: Philanthropy in the 21st Centur. Pollak, T. & Blackwood, A.

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