ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

percent in 2009. percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. To help facilitate this discussion, have your CFO run budgets from 2006-2012 and see how your revenue fluctuated. This is a time to make informed and collaborative decisions. We have to apply lessons learned from the GFC.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

Her perspective is that the scarcity mentality of nonprofits (the idea that there is only one pie, and we only get our small slice) helps keep nonprofits from taking full advantage of social media (i.e. But they are so busy living in that mentality of scarcity and competition, that they can’t do that kind of collaboration.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Social Actions is a nonprofit initiative that helps you find and share opportunities to change the world. Last week, from my home office in Montreal, Canada, I wrote up 9 ambitious goals for 2009. My team is actively pursuing foundation grants, event sponsorships, individual monthly donations and consulting services.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Our employees use it to connect with their purpose, and help lift the communities around them. They take their knowledge and use it to help nonprofits and schools build their organizational resilience while amplifying their impact. Well, pro bono consulting can happen entirely on digital platforms.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

These individuals were selected to apply their unique perspectives into the judging process and help determine this year’s Social Innovation Winners. Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Helped co-found Oncology and Kids, Inc. Ami McReynolds.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. .’ [Your captcha is asking me to type a slightly naughty word) 2 Mr Web Service 09.25.08 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool. Be Helpful. I don’t always have a lot of time to investigate them, or figure out if they are useful, but I do like to not completely ignore the ones that look interesting. I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

It’s not every day that you come across high quality content shared freely with the community – it helps life all the boats. Each month has its own tab containing LightBox Collaborative’s ideas on 2012’s opportunities for your organization to share ideas and information and generate conversation. Flickr Photo by Yandel.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009. They can even help elect a new president.). What happens when marketing evolves from broadcast to conversation, fundraising changes from large donors to e-microdonations, or collaboration moves from sweaty basements to vast social networks? Location: MIT room 3-270 (click for map). Register now.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

If you are interested in technology, sustainability, and collaboration, then Jean's for you: "Technology consultant, entrepreneur and thrivability theorist Jean Russell joined Jerry Michalski's August 3 Yi-Tan Conference Call for a conversation about thrivability as a conceptual replacement for sustainabilty.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? Be Helpful. Always read the privacy policy – if you have sensitive data, this might be a deal-breaker Always maintain your own backups.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

My point here was completely pragmatic – if nonprofits have decided to take the OpenSocial plunge, why not share what they’ve done, and collaborate so that many more can benefit. Be Helpful. That was all. Ultimately, OpenSocial doesn’t do what I’d like it to do.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In case you don’t already know Aliza, she is an award-winning Internet business and nonprofit marketing consultant with over 25 years experience starting and running Internet companies. We both had a front row seat at start of the Web Industry (back then we called it “New Media”), helping to shape how people use new digital technologies.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

However, if we are truly intent on using technology to serve and help others we cannot forget to make sure tools we use, whether they are websites or apps, are accessible to all. He is a learning disability consultant, technology trainer, nation's foremost expert on WordQ and SpeakQ.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’ll be migrating my main consulting site over to it quite soon. This is where the role of nptech peeps like e-riders and so on can help support in an unbiased way to help groups to make the correct and informed choices (which is partly why I personally work with so many different apps). Joomla is growing fast.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. Watching the collaboration of people across time zones developing these proposals has really been inspiring to me. Be Helpful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

When NFF began this survey in 2009, many of our clients were in “triage” mode: they were dealing with mission and finance-related emergencies, relying on short-term coping strategies—like reserve depletion and staff furloughs—to make ends meet until the financial crisis was over. Systems-level collaboration. signs of success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. This book will help. This book is filled with great tips on designing engaging learning experiences that help your participants connect, inspire, and engage. Schoemaker.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

As executive director, Aaron's focus is on communication, collaboration, nonprofits, video, social media, and the bleeding-edge technology behind these things. Nancy Schwartz helps nonprofits build strong and lasting relationships with the people who they need to act — to give, volunteer, participate, and more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s called Orion’s Arm , which is a huge collaborative science fiction world-building project. Be Helpful. But I guess they won’t, given their position. There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

Within an hour (and with a huge helping hand from social media), thousands had mobilized and gathered all over the United States to celebrate, remember, and embrace. Sources: ^ [1] "Convergence: How Five Trends Will Reshape the Social Sector" from La Piana Consulting was commissioned by the James Irvine Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The bottom line: We've consulted with cryptographers and studied the Martus code, and we do not believe that there is a weakness affecting Martus users. A key with an n with 232 digits (768 bits) was factored in 2009 using many years of computing time and dozens of computers spread around the world.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Brian has been with Mayo Clinic for 35 years as a member of the consulting staff. Svea Morane: While individual Mayo Clinic staff have been personally involved in Second Life and other grids for several years, our official involvement, where we started to spend money, was in May 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Would this help: 1) gain donors? 4) provide collaborative opportunities within, and between organizations? Be Helpful. And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. So, now the question – should a nonprofit organization have a blog?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

There’s been an exciting development in online collaboration this month with GSA’s launch of Challenge.gov – a platform for Federal agencies to conduct challenges and contests. In September 2009, President Obama released the “Strategy for American Innovation,” encouraging agencies to use prizes and challenges.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. million on their last return in 2006 , is the Helping Hands Agency in Page. Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo. This is great news.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Nonprofit Finance Fund recently completed its third annual "State of the Nonprofit Sector" survey with the help of nearly 2,000 nonprofit leaders nationwide. Since we started this undertaking in 2009, weve heard each year that demand is on the rise, and that remains the expectation for 2011. All You Need is Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

On February 12, 2009, Twitter users will meet up in over 100 plus cities to socialize offline, meet other Twitter users, enjoy some fun, have a few drinks, and raise money for charity: water. What are the best ways to cultivate relationships with free agent fundraisers and collaborate on fundraisers with them?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

They are receptive to how their vision is going to manifest." --Jennifer Lee, Artizen Coaching Many of you have big visions for a better world and want to make a difference in 2009. Below is the edited transcript from my Big Vision Podcast interview with Jennifer Lee from January 22, 2009. Sometimes there is more than one gremlin.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The more successful you are, the more you have to give back." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In a deliberate, organic, and aggressively inclusive manner, advised Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and consultant Eugene Eric Kim, at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations’ “Growing Social Impact in a Networked World” conference yesterday. ” Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. Whatever your cause -- How would you help your online community socialize in the real world? Would Change.org 's community benefit from "Change Drinks?"

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It’s a discovery process that first matches, then helps people build relationships, then let’s people share their resources.”- There are still some job openings , including a Monetization Director to help Jumo “achieve financial self-sustainability through the development of revenue-generating products.&#

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This group is comprised of 14 very large nonprofit organizations with data from 2009. It makes for good headlines but doesn’t really help nonprofits very much. Notes: Demographic characteristics of 2009 donors, broken down by the donor’s state of residence, including the District of Columbia. All Rights Reserved

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