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Trend Blend 2009: A Map of Time and Tide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click to see a larger image This is a cool visualizations of trends for 2009 in different sectors. You may remember the very popular Trend Blend 2007 and Trend Blend 2008 which used transportation themes. It's from Trends in Living Networks blogger Ross Dawson.

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Receiving the 2011 CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The ESI Award recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations whose innovations blend methods from the worlds of business and philanthropy, and that challenge the status quo to create sustainable social value with a potential for large-scale impact.

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How Can Nonprofits Make the Most of Overhead Funds?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofits may need to consider a blended approach to maximize their overhead funding by choosing the right mix from among these options. This action alone “…could be the best way to slow or even stop the cycle [of nonprofit starvation]” (Goggins-Gregory & Howard, 2009). Change the unrealistic expectations of contributors.

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Research Friday: Ten Types of Collaboration (an alternate view)

ASU Lodestar Center

Models of Collaboration , by professor Mark Hager and Tyler Curry, identifies and describes types of nonprofit collaborations from an analysis of the 177 nominations submitted in 2009 for the prestigious Collaboration Prize. Instead, they were often blends that involved different levels of partnership and sharing. Shared Facilities.

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PopTech Fellows Program: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. PopTech is an.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Started in 2009 in Florida, Clean the World Foundation began as a global humanitarian organization registered as a 501(c)(3). However, the impact of the “Great Recession” in 2009 and 2010 left its founders with dwindling funds. Banks were not lending.

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Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know

NTEN

Allison made a great point in response to this topic and reiterated her earlier comments about taking down the walls and letting it blend. Next seminar from Baruch College will focus on ‘going mobile’ on November 12, 2009. People want to talk to other people. Social media is not a spectator sport—it’s a contact sport.”