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Research Friday: Lessons in board governance

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight current nonprofit research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day practice. The Central Asia Institute is only one nonprofit organization that has fallen from grace due to poor nonprofit governance.

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Government contracts and nonprofit organizations: Problems and solutions

ASU Lodestar Center

There is a long history of nonprofit organizations partnering with the government, usually at the state level, through contracts to help provide for and respond to community needs. Still, changing terms mid-contract does little to help establish trust for a positive nonprofit/government relationship. published in 2010.

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Research Friday: Government contracting in the new normal

ASU Lodestar Center

inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Particularly in the last several years, in the wake of the financial crisis, organizations have struggled with a variety of challenges related to government support. In the United States, we rely on government to provide key economic supports. embedded in government contracting.

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Data Are Not Information

NTEN

By Jeff Stanger, Director, Center for Digital Information We are obsessed with data — big data, open data, linked data, personal data, government data, visualized data. It's important that we don't confuse "data" for "information." Data are only the raw material of information. So how do we get from data to information?

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Benetech Human Rights Data Analysts Uncover Critical Evidence

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As the worldwide debate continues about the release of government information by Wikileaks, history has shown that the uncovering of government data can be an important factor in human rights investigations. Guzmán’s testimony was based on HRDAG’s analysis of the 31.7 Guzmán’s testimony was based on HRDAG’s analysis of the 31.7

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Money talks: Why tuning into the Giving Pledge matters 

Candid

Influential Pledgers’ philanthropic approaches The Giving Pledge was formed in 2010 by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett to encourage the super-rich to publicly elevate and accelerate their giving. In that sense, they’re just like the rest of us.

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10 Free Nonprofit iPhone Apps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Updated: March 4, 2010. Released: February 12, 2010. With built-in sharing functions, a web view for more details on each story, and a simple, no-nonsense interface, HumaneTV offers animal lovers the most useful and informative video experience in the App Store. Released: March 29, 2010. Released: March 9, 2010.

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