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What Do Donors And Nonprofits Think Of Crowdfunding Tipping?

Bloomerang

Crowdfunding platforms collect data and feedback from users to refine their models and policies. Independent researchers have also conducted a number of studies to understand donor attitudes and behaviors regarding crowdfunding tipping or adding optional contributions when donating on crowdfunding platforms.

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Public Policy and SOX: Pricey or Priceless!

ASU Lodestar Center

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. It is not often that public policy intended for the publicly traded-corporate world directly impacts the nonprofit corporate world. These require policies covering whistle-blower protections and document preservation. Conflict of interest policy.

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Study: Nonprofits Score an "F" in Online Fundraising Scorecard

Care2

The study looked at the flow of donation pages on each of the nonprofits websites as well as email appeals, follow up emails, etc. Here are some tips that I''m re-sharing from another Frogloop blog post from 2010 that are still the gold standard. Marketing Research Metrics Nonprofit Benchmark Studies Online Fundraising'

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Great reads from around the web on May 17th

Amy Sample Ward

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. The Wikimedia Foundation, which finances and oversees the nonprofit site, received a $1.2

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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. Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies.

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Case Study: Providing Event Attendees with Wireless Internet via Mobile Broadband

NTEN

We began with a Verizon MiFi 2200 at our registration desk in 2009, and expanded to a trial Free WiFi Zone powered by Clear Spots in 2010. During the 2010 trial Free WiFi Zone, a few times a day the Clear 4G+ hotspots locked up and needed to be reset. Managing the mobile broadband devices under heavy load took some work.

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Telling the story in a new way: Should arts leaders use impact evaluation?

ASU Lodestar Center

For the past forty or so years, to ‘prove’ the value of the arts, arts leaders, funders and subsequently policy makers have focused on measuring the instrumental effects of art on society and the economy, neglecting the intrinsic value of art (McCarthy, Ondaatje, Zakaras, & Brooks, 2004). Telling the wrong story. Cultural Trends Vol.