Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Even in the United States, this was true of probably a quarter of our student users.

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Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. To date, Pencils of Promise has built nearly 600 schools worldwide, and over 130K students are currently enrolled in those schools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

Flickr partnered with TechSoup in 2008 to launch Flickr for Good. They also launched two Facebook Pages to help promote nonprofits and social causes: Facebook for Good and Non-Profits on Facebook. They also offer a tech-centric Facebook Fellowship Program for Ph.D. 2) Google/YouTube. Google donated $1,000,000 to Haiti. for Good program.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Edwin Shneidman (left) at his home in Los Angeles, California with Maurizio Pompili, who was the recipient of the 2008 Shneidman Award. The foundation’s mission is to help people like Amber through their educational programs for students, parents, teachers, staff, and community members. Agencies from within the U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

In this way, the show mirrors the case study approach we use to train students at Harvard Business School. Eisenmann : The Lean Startup movement swept out of Silicon Valley starting in 2008 or so and has since been embraced by entrepreneurs around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning analytics is an emergent field of research that aspires to use data analysis to inform decisions made on every area education, from understanding student data to build better pedagogies, target at-risk students, and to assess whether programs designed have been effective and should be sustained.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. in Residence.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

The initial phase of Train for Humanity ran for four months from September to December 2008. DPDO supports the operation of fifteen elementary schools in North Darfur and they are responsible for teacher salaries and providing classroom supplies (Total Enrollment: 8300 students; Teachers: 160 plus 56 support staff).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We're thrilled to have such accomplished faculty on board to help our nonprofit management students reach their full potential! I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years. Meet Dr. Wang. How would you describe yourself in 5-10 words? I am a faculty (associate professor) of ASU. What is your main area of interest?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Firefox, is, of course, the FOSS application that is on more desktops than all the others, combined.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. {

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

She founded the nonprofit Sustainable South Bronx , was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and today leads the Majora Carter Group , an economic consulting firm she formed in 2008 to bring her approach to underserved communities across the country. SB] 2 is but part of Majora’s multi-pronged strategy for urban renewal.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology An interesting call from danah boyd February 8, 2008 Those of you steeped deeply in Web 2.0 know danah boyd. She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I tell my students that the deduction is a “tool of government”: the federal government gives us financial incentives to spend our money in certain productive ways. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. He is Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit Management & Leadership. think tank.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

The twin book project sold over 2000 fairy story books in 2007 and more than 1000 rural students benefited from it. In April 2008, 1KG More registered as a company and aimed to operate as a social enterprise model. Now 1KG More has five full-time staff and a stable group of volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

I met Rufina in 2008 in Australia when I keynoted the Connecting Up Conference and taught social media workshops for NGOs. They start the day with a student posting an inspirational quote on the board. How deep is the Pacific Ocean? How many beaches does America have? I also visited the sixth grade class.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Nonprofits follow vastly different missions from one another and the assumption is that employees who choose to work for these organizations have more intrinsic-based motivations than their partners in the other sectors (Riddles & McCandless, 2008). Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management). Hoboken: Wiley.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. As part of a. highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] NMI students agree; however, they additionally rank high their interest in learning about strategic planning, board governance, grant writing, marketing, program evaluation, and social entrepreneurship. Pollak, T. Stay tuned.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

& Management Student, Arizona State University. The type of tie depicted in a social network map depends on a study's content and purpose (Knoke and Yang, 2008) [3]. Mary McGillicuddy , Nonprofit Leadership. Welcome to Research Friday ! American Journal of Sociology. 78(6), 1360-1380. Retrieved from [link]. ^ [2] Hanneman, R.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

It was from April, 2008! These young people consist of the most talented and enthusiastic high school students from around the country who were brought together on the Stanford campus to learn about the figut against hepatitis B (HBV), scientific and epidemic aspects of the disease to strategies of outreach and education.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This initiative has been made possible through collaboration with Tsofen, a local nonprofit organization launched in 2008 by Arab and Jewish founders to promote high-tech careers in Arab society as a lever for economic development and the creation of a shared society for Arabs and Jews in Israel. About the Author. Nancy Refki.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Stacey is one who launched the first social media infused gratitude campaign during Thanksgiving back in 2008,successfully raising money for a school project Tanzania. With $250, you can make room for a student in a classroom. I just uploaded a screen of John Haydon dong some good!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 2, 2012

to my alma mater in honor of my graduation year, and have received a thank you email, letter, alumni car decal, and a second thank you letter personally written from a current student at the university. For example, I gave $20.08 They call them “worthless,” “not an incentive to give,” and, “a waste of money.”

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

Because she had a knack for doing computer stuff, she became the de facto IT person and over time developed their infrastructure, which is now based on Microsoft Server 2008 , with the help of consultants from time to time. Most Native American students do not go to college, so many Educational Talent Search.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Karina Lungo is a graduate student of the Master of Nonprofit Studies degree at Arizona State University. posted by Karina Lungo , Research Assistant, ASU Lodestar Center. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a. Sources: 1. Carman, J.G.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Vickie Davis, CoolCatTeacher Blog, let her students dump water on her and then taught them a lesson on fundraising for a good cause and about ALS. Involving younger people in your organization’s campaigns, as champions, perhaps as part of a lesson on philanthropy is definitely something that can be replicated in other campaigns. (5)

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

In 2008, Liz joined Feeding America at the onset of the sweeping organizational brand transformation; and helped guide direct response fundraising efforts through a successful brand transition. Her team raises funds to help secure and distribute more than 200M meals annually for families struggling with hunger.

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

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