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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Charity and government support remain crucial but are insufficient to address the magnitude of the task at hand. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models?

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Selected in 2009 as one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s Women of Influence and nominated in 2015 as one of Metro Vancouver’s YWCA Women of Distinction in the category of arts, culture, and design . Charity Navigator. Foundations, Public Charities, Grantmaking. Kelly Tweeddale. Executive Director. San Francisco Ballet.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Disruptive Model: School Project Crowdfunding. Disruptive Model: Social Network. Disruptive Model: Donation Crowdfunding. Disruptive Model: Apparel Crowdfunding. With $300 million in annual revenues, CustomInk is eager to extend its reach into the charity apparel space. Disruptive Model: Project Crowdfunding.

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Online Engagement and Giving: Making the Most of Real Numbers

NTEN

Consumers/donors have expectations of an online relationship with their charities of choice that is different than what was expected just 24 months ago. 63% of online consumers planned to use the Internet to donate to charity in the last quarter of 2009, up from 51% in 2008.1. Mobile (and Open) Creates Future Opportunity.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Within just 10 days of folding, Foldit players helped decipher the structure of an AIDs-causing virus and produced an accurate 3D model of the enzyme, a problem that had eluded scientists and supercomputers for more than 10 years. In Philanthropy. Zynga.org ( [link] ) was created with the mission to use games to help those in need.

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Question Facebook’s Integrity, Longevity, and ROI (Return on Investment)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They did skip last year’s holiday party and used the money for charity , launched the tech-centric Facebook Fellowship Program , and offered free advertising to a couple of nonprofits working to end cyberbulling to get out of launching an “Alert Button&#. It was created in 2009 long before there were Community Pages.

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Can One Dollar Make a Difference? A Crash Course in Microdonating

Achieve

Donors make a yearly contribution of $15, $3 goes to operating costs and the remaining 12 is divided up a dollar each month to the charity of your choice. This site stands out, because each month 2 charities face off – donors view a video for each charity and vote by choosing which charity to give their dollar to.