ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

In 2010, we gave nearly $300 billion in support of a wide variety of charitable causes—3.8 The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

This blog post over on the Care2 FrogLoop blog, from Allyson Kapin , pulls some good summary and take-aways from the recent study from fellow NTEN member organization Idealware about the question of the "Usefulness" of social media for nonprofits.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 27, 2009

According to the executive summary, Only 12% expect to operate above break-even this year. Just 16% anticipate being able to cover their operating expenses in both 2009 and 2010. A summary of the survey is available at [link]. Their conclusions are scary. The full results are at [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Summary of ROI. Launched the advocacy Twitter handle in January 2010 (@Advocate4PanCAN) and it is growing steadily. For example, when the staff and over 500 volunteers were on Capitol Hill for Advocacy Day in June 2010, I documented the whole experience on Twitter (#AdvDay2010) with pictures, video and updates.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Cloud for Good has successfully completed over 2,500 Salesforce implementations since our inception in 2010. Many of these implementations have taken place transitioning nonprofit and higher education institutions over from Blackbaud to Salesforce.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. I’m in learning mode, so this post is a quick summary of insights, questions, and resources. I’m in learning mode, so this post is a quick summary of insights, questions, and resources. I’m also in a [.]

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2012

In January of last year I wrote up a quick summary on how some of our clients' end-of-year fundraising campaigns did vs. the prior year, and I thought it’d be nice to repeat the exercise to see how nonprofits fared in 2011. Overall gifts in this group increased by almost 25% over 2010.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We provide both a feature summary and detailed reviews, as well as a directory of consultants. The Database, together with the fully-updated 2011 Nonprofit Tagline Report, are key tools in in crafting taglines, organization names and other messages that connect and motivate action. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. .&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The conference highlights include honoring General Colin and Alma Powell with the 2010 John W. 2. To capture summaries of the 2010 conference to show the richness of the content as a means to promote the event for 2011. On October 21, from 3:30-6:00, I’ll be leading a Networked Nonprofit workshop at the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Extrapolate on the broader terms, and find one word to hang the idea on. I’ve been doing this for two years now. In 2009, my three words were: Streamline, Weave, and Einstein. Lately, I’ve found Quora to be an interesting place for discussions.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Summary: Out with the old: In with the new: We're still in the honeymoon phase, just thrilled the new look is finally "out there" and is well-received. In January 2010, we got agreement from our organization leadership to take a closer look at our brand and messaging. Overall, the experience has been positive.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

So here’s the summary for Chapter 3. I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book!

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

This research post is based upon the Pew's social networking site survey of October 20-November 28, 2010. In 2010, over half of all adult SNS users are over 35 years of age, and 56% of them are female. Click the report title for a covering summary which will help you discover those parts of the study you may wish to further explore.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Office suites include: Word 2010: Create professional documents with this -processing program. Excel 2010: Develop spreadsheets and keeping track of data. Outlook 2010: Manage your time and tasks with this program. PowerPoint 2010: Build slideshows and presentations with text effects, sound, and animation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Our friends at Fast Horse posted a nice summary here. In 2010, we created a targeted Facebook ad with a budget of $250. We ran the ad for the week of Give to the Max Day 2010 and in the end only spent $44.71 We saw an incredible range of creative campaigns using social media for Give to the Max Day this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

.” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. There were slightly less crossed-legs and arms and more curiosity and questions like, “What are the best practices?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary. The more that nonprofits understand them as useful to them, and demand them from vendors that provide (or build) software, the better, as far as I’m concerned. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.23.06

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

In 2010, the conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland. Each year AFP organizes an international fundraising conference, attracting more than 4000 professionals from 60 different countries to attend over 100 different sessions over 3 days. At one of the pre-conference master classes, I met 2 young women from Cairo.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

Summary: Out with the old: In with the new: We’re still in the honeymoon phase, just thrilled the new look is finally “out there&# and is well-received. In January 2010, we got agreement from our organization leadership to take a closer look at our brand and messaging. Overall, the experience has been positive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Here's a summary and chronology of blog posts and Facebook and Twitter chatter. Would you prefer these contests simply go away in 2010 – if so, what might replace them?". The design is very important. I'm sure I've missed something. 11/16/09: Chase launched the online competition in November.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 April 8, 2007 As I write this, I’m hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Content management programs like Windows SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites (admin fee: $708) are used for deploying and managing a public-facing website. Pro 2012 (admin fee: $35) links donor databases and contact history to calendars, tasks, project summaries, and appointment schedules.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Send a donation summary at the end of the year for tax purposes. Nonprofits embraced text messaging and text-to-give in the years after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti , but since then, the technology has improved in its efficiency and cost. ThankView allows nonprofits to easily send personalized “Thank You” videos to donors.

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See3

AUGUST 23, 2007

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION The recent EPA EIS on MTM found that only 6.8% Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! of Appalachia has or even can be mined by MTM methods, so I hardly think Appalachia is being “decapitated&# as many editorialists claim.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 2, 2011

12/25/2010. April-May 2010 vs April-May 2009. There is no way out of the box in reporting to compare 7/1/2008-12/31/2008 vs 7/1/2009-12/31/2009 vs. 7/1/2010-12/31/2010. So when we run this report we see the results of the entire fiscal year 2009 and 2010 and only up to where we are now in 2011. This fiscal year.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Reading through the 300+ comments online reminded me eerily of the extraordinary 2010 ArtsWave report on the public value of art (full report here , my synopsis here ). In the executive summary, the authors identified several common assumptions that "work against the objective of positioning the arts as a public good."

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Thank them again for their donation in 2010, and ask if they could give again this year. Get back on their radar with a brief summary of your progress this year, and explain how your school still needs their support. Thank them for their donation, and then tell them how your school is rallying to meet its year-end giving goal.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

In summary, collaboration is critical because a client-centric approach, tied into a community of resources through technology, facilitates simplified, whole solutions that can be evaluated based on system-wide outcomes. What’s ahead for you in 2010? 2010 is not likely to improve.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 13, 2011

Something you can do this month (January) is to send your donors a summary of their giving for last year. A summary will save them time looking for a bunch of receipts. “Dear Sandy, Thank you so much for all of your support in 2010. This letter is a summary of your 2010 contributions for your income taxes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010 Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty A 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management shows that job security is what matters most to employees. And, having that job security helps to keep employees loyal. Employee pay often is not the most important driver for employee retention.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

at 9:24 am Excellent summary. There are definitely instances where companies buy up competitors to simply shut them down but I am not convinced that this is such a case. David Zeidman 3 Jim Barney 08.07.07 Click & Pledge will soon be launching a new version of its SaaS for nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 8, 2011

The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University recently distributed the results of a 2010 study, and all of the above were proven false. There is also a free executive summary of the entire Giving USA 2010 report at this site. ^ [1] Giving USA Spotlight, Issue 3, 2010, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University/GivingUSA Foundation.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

It is the follow-up book to the critically acclaimed Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential from 2010. These are brief summaries of the challenges faced by the sector that are covered in much more detail in both Charity Case and Uncharitable. million on advertising. Entertain the Children 582.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Sunday, September 26, 2010 How To Create A "Best Places To Work" Company Overland Park, Kansas-based author Leigh Branham, along with Mark Hirschfeld, recently completed a survey of 10,000 employees in 43 states to better understand what separates a "best places to work" company from other companies. Thanks for the summary.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Friday, October 8, 2010 Discover Your Leader Grade If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace, which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. Also free is a summary analysis of your results.

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