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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is a digital reality – a cyberspace made up of multiple virtual worlds – that combines components of social media, gaming, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), cryptocurrencies, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Without these, the metaverse risks inheriting the problems of today’s social media, if not becoming something worse.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? Defourny et al.,

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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Online Learning Trends That You Can’t Ignore

Gyrus

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. Almost two-thirds of Americans are predicted to own a smartphone by 2017, more than a threefold increase since 2010.

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Open Source for Nonprofits: Programs to Try (Part 2)

Tech Soup

Vancouver-based Art for Impact is a nonprofit that celebrates the power of art for social change. The software itself has been in development since 2010, but the OpenProject Foundation that supports it was established in 2012. Image 1 : Blended Images / Shutterstock. Connect with him on LinkedIn. Image 2: CiviCRM. spanhidden.

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The 5 Best Social Impact Games of 2010

NTEN

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Executive Compensation"

ASU Lodestar Center

The report details the challenges and perspectives of nonprofit CEOs in an elegant blend of statistical findings and personal voices. I was pleased to learn that Daring to Lead will be published again this year, drawing on data that was collected from thousands of nonprofit CEOs across the country in the fall of 2010.