ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Today, there may be no idea with greater currency in the social sector than ‘scaling what works’” (Bradach, 2010, p. Interventions seeking to “go to scale” must also have support from stakeholders, with buy-in by all involved (Harris, 2010). As nonprofit professionals, we all want to impact the greatest possible number with our work.

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Program Impact New York Model 64

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. Advocacy actions and items of personal interest tend to result in more click-throughs from newsletters. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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email Marketing Nebraska Omaha 169

NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

I’ve blogged about how a few nonprofits are using them , and how the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network was seeing real results , but it feels like there is a new energy around using them. 14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Also, text alerts are limited to 160 characters, so if you want to do a call to action or inform your subscribers beyond a 160 characters, then you are going to need a mobile website/page to do it. As of July 2009, 56.9 I know you’ve heard it… 2010 is the Year of the Mobile Web. The web is going mobile. population!).

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Mobile Websites United States Nonprofit 210

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

" Why I'm dancing: The Point + Groupon = G-team – My Social Actions – I'm really excited about the news Christine shared on the Social Actions blog: the potential being harnessed by Groupon/The Point to get social impact into the stream of success that Groupon has created. " MLK2011 – Join Us Live!

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Haiti Web Philanthropy Bookmarking 123

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Others I think about: CiviCRM had 4.8%, Organizer’s Database at 3%, Salesforce was at 2.6%, Democracy in Action at 0.6% By far the most popular DMS of the ones surveyed was … you guessed … Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge. 18% of users surveyed use that one, which also accounted for 35.5% and MPower at 0.4%.

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Database Donor Open Source Kintera 113

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

It has shortcuts for all of your servers, has nice drag and drop for moving files around, allows you to do all sorts of remote actions on files, etc. No, it’s not slick, but Filezilla does the job nicely. It handles FTP, SFTP and FTP over SSL/TLS. I use it all the time, and I really like it. Oh, and there is a Windows version, too. {

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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Do you know the average click-through and open rates on action alerts and fundraising appeals across the nonprofit sector? Check out the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M+R Strategic Services and NTEN which surveyed 40 nonprofit organizations and analyzed all of this data and more. Online fundraising grew 14% from 2009 to 2010.

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Benchmark Advocacy Studies Metrics 76

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say. That said, for the most part, except for CitySoft and vTiger, people seemed very satisfied with these tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

I’m involved in the evangelism action group. He talks about data “accessibility&# , “visibility&# , “removal&# and “ownership&# – all things that, to my mind, are components of data portability. So, I’m evangelizing. I think as nonprofit organizations begin to work more and more using Web 2.0

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Data Open Source Industry RSS 100

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

In 2010, we gave nearly $300 billion in support of a wide variety of charitable causes—3.8 The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4

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Research Impact United States Philanthropy 79

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

Yep, only 2% said celebrities were motivating their actions! Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010. But, on the top of the chart: a compelling cause.

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Celebrate Impact Fundraising Pakistan 201

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

I know a lot of people get revenue from ads, and I sorta feel bad promoting AdBlock, but the truth is, I never click on ads, so no one ever gets any revenue from my actions anyway. I love it. It’s nice to have clean, ad, free pages, and especially without the distracting moving ads. Plus, pages load faster without ads.

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Platform Benefit Open Open Source 100

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

September 14-21: Mozilla Service Week September 16 & 17, 2009: Online Nonprofit Technology Conference: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission September 25 (deadline) Applications are being accepted for the TED 2010 Fellowship program September 30 (deadline) Enter the GreatNonprofits' Youth Thrive Awards 2009

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Fun Twitter Service Podcast 40

NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To answer these questions and more, we at Smart Online™ used this last quarter of 2010 to try and unravel the ‘Technology Trends for Nonprofits’ in 2011. This is an indication that nonprofits are definitely moving in the right direction, which is also reflected in the Nielsen Study (What Americans Do Online, August 2010 ).

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Trend Technology Gartner Nonprofit 100

sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

All Rights Reserved

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Blackbaud Benchmark Nonprofit Chart 87

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The Database, together with the fully-updated 2011 Nonprofit Tagline Report, are key tools in in crafting taglines, organization names and other messages that connect and motivate action. " Open for Action — A blog for OpenAction thoughts and musings – "Not sure about you, but we’re saying finally!

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Web Drupal Open Source Bookmarking 117

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

at 12:02 am Two use cases where I think Twitter makes a lot of sense: 1) disaster and emergency situations and 2) direct action/civil disobedience organizing where distributed and decentralized communications can be very helpful in reacting quickly to new information. at 9:50 pm This is a great post that I hope you revisit in 2009.

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Twitter Nonprofit Demographics Open Source 100

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” 2009, May 1). Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. There is no golden standard.

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2010

On the personal side, I’ve donated, volunteered, taken action, and raised money. And with the publishing of the 2010 Nonprofit Resolutions Guide , 5 main lessons learned in the way of multi-channel marketing were evident in 2009. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Multi-Channel Engagement. Coordinate your efforts.

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Channel Lesson Learning Haiti 32

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2010

Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Participant Fundraising. explain the organization’s mission, provide a call to action, and make it obvious how to donate). Even more lessons learned and ideas can be found in the 2010 Nonprofit Resolutions Guide , and of course, I know there are many other tips participant fundraisers must have.

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Lesson Learning Fundraising Convio 33

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Thanks much for getting this going. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Web API Open Source NTEN 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

This is when actual code is written in the CMS (via module or customization) which calls APIs on the CRM side to perform specific actions, such as adding records, syncing records, grabbing data, etc. Integration. All of these strategies take time and resources, but of different kinds.

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Integration API Drupal Open Source 100

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

(You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

Since 2009, our survey has asked nonprofit leaders to indicate what management actions they are taking to cope with the recession. In both 2009 and 2010, nonprofit leaders told us that they were "engaging more closely with the board" by increasing the number of annual meetings, sharing new types of reports, or in other ways.

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Research Survey Fund Stats 85

Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Mind apples Categories charities flickr ideas people photos speaking storytelling unplugged video Archives June 2010 March 2010 January 2010 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 June 2009 March 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 © 2010 ¶ WordPress.

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Burma Mexico Flickr Bookmarking 40

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

I believe this so much in fact, that I started a Page called “ Call to Action: Launch an Ads Grants Program for Nonprofits “ Hope you become a Fan – er “Like&# it. But for the second largest Internet company in the world with 2010 profit estimates to be between $1-2 billion, is that enough?

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ROI Integration Question Facebook 248

Steve Bridger

JUNE 9, 2008

Mind apples Categories charities flickr ideas people photos speaking storytelling unplugged video Archives June 2010 March 2010 January 2010 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 June 2009 March 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 © 2010 ¶ WordPress.

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Burma Mexico Flickr Bookmarking 40

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

In November 2009, Oregon was identified as one of the 10 states in most fiscal peril by the Pew Center on the States. In response to the economic crisis, during 2009 MMT expanded its grantmaking strategies to help nonprofit organizations survive the economic downturn by helping with core and general operating expenses.

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Oregon Foundation Ideas Award 140

NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Flickr Photo: Mez Love You may have heard by now that we're raising money for scholarships to the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference.Last year was the first time we ran the campaign, and while we met our goal, it was a stretch, and we almost burnt ourselves out. In 2009, we didn't put an end date on our campaign.

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Fundraising Lesson Social Media Mail 61

Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Mind apples Categories charities flickr ideas people photos speaking storytelling unplugged video Archives June 2010 March 2010 January 2010 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 June 2009 March 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 © 2010 ¶ WordPress.

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Flickr Burma Mexico Storytelling 40

Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Mind apples Categories charities flickr ideas people photos speaking storytelling unplugged video Archives June 2010 March 2010 January 2010 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 June 2009 March 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 © 2010 ¶ WordPress.

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Flickr Burma Mexico Storytelling 40

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. That doesn’t mean organizations sit back, relinquish all responsibility and control, and wait for the community to take action.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.

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Video Question Atlanta Social Media 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

They are also offering some cool prizes and incentives, including these Climate Love Packs (Wow, that grand prize is a Schwinn 2010 World NX7 Commuter bike.) Here are the different ways that you can participate: Leave a voicemail thanking a senator for improving the world and letting everyone know how much you love the climate.

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Campaign Green Marketing Photo 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

By this time (12/11/2009 2:23 pm pst) he's raised over $135K. fatcyclist sees that Johan Bruyneel has challenged him and starts to take action! If those two criteria are met by the stated deadline, Trek Travel will donate one 2010 Paris Finishing Package to witness the finale of the Tour de France !! 

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Raise Network Hints Tucson 94

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.)

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