Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 6, 2009

A March 2008 report in Science magazine, Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness , found that, "spending more of one's income on others predicted greater happiness both cross-sectionally (in a nationally representative survey study) and longitudinally (in a field study of windfall spending)." There are so many ways to give.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

research, a survey of the giving habits of the social media savvy, over at Mashable. This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

To identify an appropriate messenger, the report suggests that you ask yourself what knowledge and skills are required for the presentation, who has those requirements and is available, what his/her credentials are, and how those might best be highlighted to the audience. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Evaluation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

While businesses have traditionally focused narrowly on generating profits for shareholders, many nonprofits (despite their skills and dedication to their missions) have lacked adequate marketing skills (Billitteri, 2007), often resulting in financial hardship. Reposted from The Morrison Institute for Public Policy.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. Another is surveys. The nonprofit Feedback Labs maintains that mobile phone surveys are 100 times cheaper and much, much times faster than conventional online surveys. If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. The Butterfly House manager shares photos on Flickr. and then what?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. The Butterfly House manager shares photos on Flickr. and then what?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 12, 2011

Formerly, many Americans were recruited to join a civil society of voluntary membership associations, newspapers, and face-to-face meetings that provided them with information, encouraged them to discuss and debate, and taught them skills of analysis, communication, and political or civic action. Do you subscribe to our biweekly e-newsletter?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 25, 2012

Those reasons, captured in a post-exit survey, contribute greatly to the new release of the second edition of Branham's best-seller, The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave. The original edition was based on feedback from nearly 20,000 surveys. Then came Enron, Worldcom in 2002, then the crash of 2008 exposed the depth of corruption.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. AD: I survey the landscape of nonprofits constantly and look to see who is doing similar work all the time. Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. But I spend most of my time as a trainer and a strategist as a coach and I help organizations and the people that lead them, just like you, grow your skills, your teams, and your results. How many of y’all remember the housing bubble bursting in the U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Maya Angelou In December 2007, the New York Sun article, Why Giving Makes You Happy reported that: "According to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a survey of 30,000 American households, people who gave money to charity in 2000 were 43% more likely than non-givers to say they were 'very happy' about their lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

And while surveys, focus groups and other services can give you an analysis of what your current audience is doing online, direct observation is works best. Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3. As with any new skill, you need to factor in learning curve time. Keep in mind these are rough estimates.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2007

"These skills, which one sees in action around the country with certain key individuals who seem to be able to bridge gaps between organizations and issue areas, we can teach them. Britt Bravo: What are the skills and qualities a social change leader needs today, and how do they learn those skills from Rockwood?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

In doing a little research for this post, I came across the East Side Bloggers 2008 , a blog by 10th graders at East Side Community High School. He was sewing as a means of regaining his small motor skills, and as his wife looked on, they talked about their efforts to piece their lives back together.

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