Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Our expert speakers include: Sachin Malhan , co-founder of Inclusive Planet, which is working to enable online collaboration among the world's print-impaired population and also incubating new technologies in the web accessibility space. For his work on Inclusive Planet Sachin was awarded an INK Fellowship in 2010.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2014

Their work is straightforward: fix up donated computers and give them to needy children. Like many PC refurbishment programs around the world, Greg started doing this charitable work out of his home. Like many PC refurbishment programs around the world, Greg started doing this charitable work out of his home. In the Beginning.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2010

In memory of my brother-in-law, Bill Drew, I joined Team in Training in 2002 and committed to raise $2,500 and run a marathon. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Participant Fundraising. Do the heavy lifting work. What worked for your organization in 2009? First a little background information. The 5/50 rule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. Can a judge and a lawyer be “friends” and do they need to “un-friend” each other if they’re working the same case? And for good reason.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

And once member lists, actions and events, emails and documents are collected and stored by an online service, outdated electronic privacy law is failing to keep this information safe from inappropriate access and potential misuse. Outdated electronic privacy law impacts everyone who uses e-mail, mobile phones, or the Internet.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

The BlueCross' original breach occurred in October 2009, but five months, $7 million and 110,000 work hours later, they are still dealing with the issue. The smaller banks that small businesses tend to work with also aren't as sophisticated in detecting and preventing fraud as larger banks. Have you mitigated your privacy risks?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 26, 2019

Changes in Government Regulations & Laws – While some governmental changes can be beneficial to Social Service nonprofit organizations, such as the Edward M Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009 , others can have a negative impact, such as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

Many nonprofits work in tandem with volunteers to move their mission forward and keep expenses down. Regardless of how you put your mission helpers to work, volunteer management at every level is key to developing happy, helpful, and empowered volunteers! Check these events that require 10 volunteers or less. Don’t Force It.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Delany, who heads up the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) online department, says that one tactic he uses to repurpose NWLC content in an engaging way is to share compelling stats from their policy factsheets. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, in 2010 average weekday sales were down by almost 9 percent from 2009.

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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. To work well, however, these complex. signs of success.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

After a couple of hours of working at it, the job was still not done. Mom would save up projects for Bill to work on, some which had already been “fixed” by Dad. Third, he inspired us to work hard and to do the right thing. Dad had a ferocious work ethic and was dedicated to doing the right thing for people.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2009

It was only after I started composing an auto-responding "Hey, buddy, some of us have to work" snark that I realized I was jealous. Andy Carvin and the terrific team responsible for the Twitter Vote Report have expanded on that idea with Inauguration Report 2009. Aren't you going?" " messages. Tag things!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Historically, federal and state laws have viewed nonprofit and for-profit entities as mutually exclusive organizations whose work rarely, if ever, overlapped. In 2014, Goodwill received $3.94

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Care2

JUNE 26, 2009

60) Search « Strategies For Optimizing Your Nonprofits Website | Main | YouTube Launches Video Volunteers » Wednesday Jun 24 2009 How Unused Gift Cards Can Support Nonprofits Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 12:14AM | by Allyson Kapin Do you have a pile of gift cards stuffed in an old draw? Here’s how it works.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

As calls increase for charities to be more open and accountable in their management and reporting, it is natural for many of them to ask, considering the extra work involved, "What’s in it for us? For donors, they would point to the number assisted as undeniable evidence that support for their work was warranted. October 2009. [4]

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Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2015

Would your organization be more effective if certain laws or regulations were amended, added, or stricken from the books? Before 2009, probably not. And, so far it has worked. Politics and public policy don’t often go hand in hand with the nonprofit experience. Should Your Organization Engage in Public Policy Discussions?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." Here's how it works. Breadline Africa is a South Africa based organization working to alleviate poverty in Africa.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

You wouldn’t think that would be such a big deal in the working world, but speaking from experience, employers and businesses tend to shy away from hiring people with disabilities. While ideally anti-discrimination laws would prevent much of this, proving discrimination in most cases is nearly impossible. Dixon, K.A.,

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

Main | The ROI of Social Media » Friday May 29 2009 Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? Friday, May 29, 2009 at 09:41AM | by Allyson Kapin In the next five years, money spent annually on direct mail will decline by as much as 40%, from $49.7 Does direct mail fundraising still work well for your organization?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

» Tuesday Feb 17 2009 Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 03:50PM | by Allyson Kapin By: Allyson Kapin , Blogger-In-Chief Direct Mail acquisition is one of the most expensive ways to raise money these days. Post a comment and let us know what you think.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Refining the Process Figuring Out What Works Over the first few months of our grant, we continued to experiment with our ads and keywords, and to monitor how each of our campaigns was performing. And we’ll keep trying new things and seeing what works. February 6, 2009 | Robin Reed Thanks Daniel.

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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. The ones that did not get the message are either working under a rock, willfully noncompliant, or closed up without telling the authorities. This is great news.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

» Tuesday Feb 17 2009 Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 03:50PM | by Allyson Kapin By: Allyson Kapin , Blogger-In-Chief Direct Mail acquisition is one of the most expensive ways to raise money these days. Post a comment and let us know what you think.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 14, 2009

Jim Fruchterman Chairman’s Address to the Social Enterprise Alliance 2009 Annual Summit The world’s a mess. Additionally, and we see this a lot in the fields we work in, the people who most often need a product or service are often those least able to afford it. We’ve clearly seen how that’s worked out.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. Make conversation with your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Saturday, June 19, 2010 How To Help Your Employees Click More At Work Research from universities around the country show that employees who "click" with each other at work have more career success. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2015

In the Fall 2009 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review , Gregory and Howard identified the “nonprofit starvation cycle” which they defined as follows: The first step in this cycle is the funders’ unrealistic expectations about how much it costs to run a nonprofit. 2009, Fall). Lincoln Institute of Land Policy [Working Paper].

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Sunday, September 26, 2010 How To Create A "Best Places To Work" Company Overland Park, Kansas-based author Leigh Branham, along with Mark Hirschfeld, recently completed a survey of 10,000 employees in 43 states to better understand what separates a "best places to work" company from other companies. Make conversation with your team.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2017, the nation’s first open data law, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) moved from a pilot phase to full implementation. Let’s take a look at the roots of this open data law, which is carrying the federal government kicking and screaming into the Age of Big Data. federal government spending data.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 1, 2022

2009: President Barack Obama signs a proclamation making October 12th a day to “celebrate the accomplishments and resilience of Native Americans” 2021: President Biden officially makes Indigenous Peoples’ Day a Federal holiday, replacing Columbus Day. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. What do people search for?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 2009, we finalized a technology plan. When the analysis was done, I created a proposal with my recommendations, which was approved by October 2009. You all know Murphy’s law; I learned that a plan is just a plan, and anything can happen until it has been implemented and finalized -- and things happened for sure!

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Beth Kanter is a nonprofit rock star and I’ve had the good fortune of being her editor for a book chapter , a supporter of her work, and she’s always been receptive to my thoughts and the occasional guest post on her blog. I can hear a lot of techie people pointing out that you can build apps that work on multiple platforms.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

While working toward his master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Cohn worked as an Editor at newassignment.net , which focused on citizen journalism and ways news organizations could explore the social web. On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us is and how it works: David Cohn: Spot.us

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Now it’s time to get to work solving it.” Challenge unconstitutional laws targeted at the sector. “Our sector does have an extremely proficient and hard-working national advocacy organization: Independent Sector. ” Charity Case says that in 2009, Save the Children spent $3.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

This past year wrote an op-ed for the Chronicle of Philanthropy on the age of automation and it implications for fundraisers as well as other articles, including Leveraging the Power of Bots for Civil Society on SSIR Blog and The Robots Have Arrived: How Nonprofits Can Put Them To Work on Guidestar Blog.

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Learning Philanthropy Nonprofit Charity 101

sgEngage

JANUARY 20, 2011

There are certainly pros and cons to using these but they work. Just about everyone in law enforcement will tell you that this is the hardest type of online credit card fraud to prevent.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

So, decide today to secure a mentor who will work with you during 2011. Plan to work with your mentor for no less than three months, and ideally for six months or longer. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. Make that one of your New Year’s resolutions.

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