NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Peter gives an overview of what the changes are and what they mean -- and how we, as the nonprofit technology community, can help make tracking and reporting more effective for the whole sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I’ve been going every year since 2009 to cover the event on my blog. Out of all the amazing speakers and discussions , I was lucky enough to sit down with Barb Newhouse, President & Chief Executive Officer. .” Says Barb, “We need to learn from each other and collaborate more.”

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Be Helpful. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Keep in mind that many of the most complex and intractable social issues that nonprofits face can only be effectively addressed by collective impact, via collaboration among organizations or even across sectors. If program evaluation has been done well, this may be one useful tool to help convince stakeholders to buy in (Harris, 2010).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki. It will be the only growing market in 2009. You need social capital to help in difficult times. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. You can updates through RSS.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 5, 2009

7:00-7:20 - Collaborative learning grid & wrap up. Tags: londonnettuesday collaboration nettuesday onlinelearning events. Agenda : 5:30-6:00 - Networking. 6:00-6:15 - Welcome and Introduction. 6:15-7:00 - Learning discussion groups & idea sharing. 7:20+ - Networking.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

There are myriad options available to nonprofits that can help them to make the most of tight G&A budgets, and so it is important to find the best fit for their needs, culture, and environment. This action alone “…could be the best way to slow or even stop the cycle [of nonprofit starvation]” (Goggins-Gregory & Howard, 2009).

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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. Our efforts in these income-generating areas should start to prove themselves by February or March of 2009. So, I gave $20.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit. So, I contacted the Food Bank and proposed we collaborate. I had lots of positive feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together.

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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. In a way, logistics helped people realize they could volunteer their skills.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

Once we20 meets critical mass (and we sort our lives out), we will help you to implement your plans using web applications and partnerships." Nominations open for 2009 Social Innovation Fellowships | The Pop!Tech " Check out the Facebook Group for more information. Tech Social Innovation Fellows program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th. So far, the Give to the Max Day events in 2009 and 2010 have raised $14 million and $10 million respectively, more than in any other community. It’s the ability to initiate and nurture these relationships that has helped us succeed.

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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

JULY 10, 2008

Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. Be Helpful. And I can’t stay a technology expert without continually learning. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this!

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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

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. Be Helpful. .’ [Your captcha is asking me to type a slightly naughty word) 2 Mr Web Service 09.25.08

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2009

All 10 finalists will be invited to present their ideas at an international conference, “The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media,” at UC Berkeley, May 4 and 5, 2009. We want you to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. Learn more. Submit your Project. Visit the Project Gallery.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Many volunteer managers cite recruitment as their greatest challenge; however, Brudney and Meijs (2009) contend that “the preoccupation with recruitment distracts attention and resources from the management and retention of volunteers” (p. We welcome your comments and feedback. Sources: Brudney, J. and Meijs, L. 38(4), 564-581.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009). Childcare, meals, and transit can also be helpful to previously disengaged individuals. 2009, May 1). There is no golden standard.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

Now is the time to help choose the local organizations that will benefit from the twitter-powered organizing and convening. Twestival Local aims to support not-for-profit organizations through global events on 10-13 September 2009. The Twestival is back this September, this time focusing on local groups instead of a global campaign!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This week - September 14-21, 2009 - we’ve asked individuals to step up and make a difference by using the Web to better their community. You may already have an idea of how you want to help, and that’s great. Help install a wireless network at a school. What is Mozilla Service Week?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

We sensed that we needed to figure out the role that technology and social media could play in the social sector, and that we needed to help our grantee partners figure it out too. OE grants help nonprofits strengthen their leadership, organizations, and networks. But we didn’t quite know how to begin. If not more so.

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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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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. One of the ideas we explored is it possible through social media to share some of the findings in a conversational way to help prod more insights from the field.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

Pacific time , we are holding our second webinar in collaboration with the Foundation Center, Toolkit Essentials: Finding Funders for Your Cause. The center opened in March 2009, and is operated by the Kalamazoo Public Library. If you did not get a chance to attend, you can still watch the recording of the event. Who Is Presenting?

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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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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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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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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).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports regularly on the employment situation for people with disabilities, there is strong evidence that it has gotten disproportionately worse for workers with disabilities since 2009. million to 6 million by 2015.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When I had surgery in 2009, I used eHop e as an online tool to help me stay in touch with my community and ask for help. This time, I'm going to try out two other online tools: CaringBridge , which will help me update my farflung family, friends, and colleagues. I'm scheduled to have surgery on January 20th.

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