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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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GoFundMe Asks Donors To Tip Them! What’s Up With That?

Bloomerang

“The Tip” model of fundraising is not a standard or widely recognized term in the field of fundraising. The idea behind “The Tip” model is to enable donors to contribute not only to the specific causes or campaigns they support but also to the sustainability of the crowdfunding platform itself.

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ATTN Facebook Admins: Two Changes to the Static FBML App That You Need to Know About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, see the “Make a Difference&# and “Get Informed&# boxes on the left of EcoViva’s Facebook Page. Obviously Facebook is moving full steam ahead with their revenue model and will likely continue to chip away at the Facebook Page toolset – unless of course you buy advertising. Now you can only have two.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? And, despite slight upticks in 2010 and 2011 in giving, they were still well below pre-GFC levels. For example, donations to food banks in 40 cities increased by 2.2 Second, model out and scenario plan for revenue declines of 5, 10 and 15 percent.

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Rethinking Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations

Tech Soup

Some great instances of economy of language can be found in the examples included in our recap blog post as well as in the following presentations. One example is the following presentation. Steve Jurvetson on Model Rocketry. Use just enough text to make people curious to listen. Animation and SmartArt.

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Research Friday: Battling Domestic Violence with Data

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2009, we conducted a broad financial overview of 70 domestic violence (DV) service providers, which was followed by a comparative financial analysis of 18 organizations in 2010. So, for reasons that are driven by their mission and their funders, the “shelter-based” business model has come to dominate this sector.

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Where the gift economy rubber meets the road

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There will be detailed case studies in the new primer, but what’s been striking to me is how many examples of this there are out there. Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need.

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