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Great reads from around the web on August 11th

Amy Sample Ward

Social Versus Entrepreneur – "Grammatically, the word social modifies entrepreneur, indicating a social entrepreneur is one whose entrepreneurial activity is social in nature. " Submit your Case Study to the Global Digital Activism Data Set! This is a significant problem for the social enterprise movement."

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 So What and Who Cares.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. Card testing is a fraudulent activity. Encryption.

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How Much Money do People Really Give on Nonprofit Boards? Read BoardAssist’s 2018 Annual Report on Nonprofit Giving for all the Answers

BoardAssist

The chart below summarizes data compiled from 282 nonprofit organizations that had requested BoardAssist’s counsel in selectively adding to their boards and were actively engaged in the search process on January 1, 2018. Though most BoardAssist clients are New York-based, they serve locally, nationally and internationally.

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How Much Money do People Really Give on Nonprofit Boards? Read BoardAssist’s Annual Report on Nonprofit Giving for all the Answers

BoardAssist

The chart below summarizes data compiled from 242 nonprofit organizations that had requested BoardAssist’s counsel in selectively adding to their boards and were actively engaged in the search process on January 1, 2017. Additional Findings. – Was not based on the years the nonprofit had been in existence. Conclusions.

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Takeaways from the American Express Leadership Academy Alumni Summit

ASU Lodestar Center

I am a proud 2010 graduate of The American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center. I was selected as one of 50 network delegates from around the globe to convene in New York on April 4 and 5 to participate in a variety of workshops and panel discussions designed to enhance alumni relationships and vital leadership skills.

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This Twitter Fundraisers, Next Year FourSquare Fundraisers.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Foursquare " predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010. This is a great way to give.” TechiesGiveBack.org is dedicated to unifying the New York tech industry for the purpose of improving the local community through volunteering and fundraising. We decided to create an organization to facilitate those activities."

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