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How Nonprofits Can Engage Volunteers in Advocacy

ASU Lodestar Center

In addition, according to Eisner (2009), nonprofit leaders are not taking the time to develop or support volunteer talent adequately, resulting in a weak or bland experience that leads to an unmotivated volunteer who has little reason to return. 2009) The new volunteer workforce, Stanford, Social, Innovation Review Retrieved from [link].

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How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Packard recently surveyed 274 of these grantees from 2007-2009 (grant amounts ranged between $7,000 and $160,000) and analyzed the responses from 169 (a 62% response rate) to ascertain the outcomes. ( Likewise, our study last year of 263 nonprofits in Los Angeles County for the Weingart Foundation (see “ Fortifying L.A.’s

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us It's becoming this new tool that people are expected to be able to do, and I don't know that we're really trained for it at this point. And it'll probably be to Southern California, Los Angeles, next. for the Big Vision Podcast.

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Summer 2009 Our growth over the last year has been so phenomenal that I wanted to use this summer update to highlight some of the great people working for Benetech: our interns, summer associates and fellows. Two or three times a year, I publish a president's update for Benetech.

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1stfans: An Audience-Specific Membership Program at the Brooklyn Museum

Museum 2.0

1stfans is a new kind of membership launched on January 3, 2009 that combines in-person meetups, private groups on Facebook and Flickr, and a private Twitter feed featuring work by original artists (for more background, check out Will and Shelley's blog posts and videos ). On the other hand, it was intimidating for that very same reason!

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

In ways beyond Marx’s most vivid nightmares, the poor and dispossessed now unwittingly train the very machines built to track their movements and terrorise their communities, or else replace their role in the labour process. The LAPD has used the software around 30,000 times since 2009, often to defend richer enclaves from ‘gang crime’.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Workers are not paid for training time to master a job or for transit time between gigs. Trebor Scholz et , Policies for Cooperative Ownership in the Digital Economy (New York: Platform Cooperativism Consortium and Los Angeles: Berggruen Institute, 2021). George Akerlof and Robert J.

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