ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

According to a study conducted in 2011, 86 percent of nonprofit board members are Caucasian (Schwartz, Weinberg, Hagenbuch, & Scott, 2011). The recruitment process must be steered toward the goals of the organization by adopting the practice of looking for diverse perspectives in qualified candidates. Schwartz, R.,

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Author: Noah Cooper. If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” And proud of it. Oh, memories.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. While the app is only available for Washington voters, it could potentially be adopted for other states. Windows 8 adopters can also try out the Viewer for Khan Academy desktop app, which lets you watch Khan Academy videos on your desktop.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2012

Author: Jill Ward. Overall, Convio clients raised 17 percent more online in the last three months of 2011 than in 2010. What made CWF’s 2011 year-end campaign so special and why do you think it performed so well? Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for fundraisers this year?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Now more than ever, nonprofit boards need to adopt a technology strategy to help improve everything from communication to compliance. Now more than ever, nonprofit boards need to adopt a technology strategy to help improve everything from communication to compliance. November 2011: Community Generated Content. Why technology?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Author: Brandy Reppy. Participating organizations are tasked with saving at least 300 more cats and dogs between August and October 2011 than they did during the same period last year. It doesn't take a lot to know that this challenge meant really mobilizing in the community to get awareness and adoption up! Austin Pets Alive!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Author: Lacey Kruger. million in 2011. In addition to their great success with Common Ground, All Hands Volunteers has also adopted Common Ground Social which is an integrated social fundraising solution. The organization is a volunteer-staffed nonprofit that’s dedicated to timely disaster response and relief assistance.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Research firm Quorus Consulting Group polled 2,003 teens and adults in April 2011. Given the fast growth of smartphone adoption across all consumer segments, these numbers portend continued growth for mobile giving. The results of the survey were very encouraging for the current and future state of mobile giving. Channel of Influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

In November, 2011, the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The United Way of National Capital Area, and the social giving platform, Razoo, hosted a multi-million dollar local giving day.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons. Virtual libraries aren't a new phenomenon.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011. The late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, famously announced the post-PC era in March 2011 during the launch of the iPad 2. As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Author: Sally Heaven. If you follow the news about smartphones, then you might have noticed that in 2011, shipments of smartphones outpaced shipments of PCs. I was not an early adopter of a mobile device. Mobile is a growing trend that just won't quit. Is your organization ready?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

Author: Vinay Bhagat. Though many thought I was crazy, I persevered with the support of my cofounder David Crooke, our early team members, early adopter clients, investors, and of course my wife. In 2011, an estimated $17 billion was raised online. Today, Friday May 4, 2012, is my last day at Convio.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

According to the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , online revenue grew by 21% over 2011 totals, presenting nonprofits even more reasons to pull out the heavy gear and start online fundraising. So which are these extra ingredients when adopting an online reach for donations?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. Fast forward to 2011. Really, all they have in common is being G+ early adopters. I remember way back to the 2003-2004 academic year. I was a freshman at BU and my boyfriend at the time was a freshman at Harvard , birthplace of Facebook. They didn't get it. They thought it was creepy and stalker-ish.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who” thought it up or campaigned for it.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

The 2013 NTEN Award Winner Maddie Grant is a classic Gen-X early adopter of technology and lover of "shiny new toys". As we celebrate the NTEN award winner, we celebrate all of you. We''re big fans of Maddie and our community agrees! 13ntc Community nten awards'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

A few weeks ago, Beth was kind enough to host a book giveaway and New Year resolution contest for nonprofits to celebrate the launch of my new book Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , which I co-authored with Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard. I wish you all luck in your 2011 brand journey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

I’ve also been looking at ideas from the the Lean Start Up movement, ignited by Eric Ries, author of the Lean Start Up. One of the Lean Startup’s core concepts is build>measure>learn —the process that start ups follow to iterate and learn. It’s no wonder why Lean is increasingly being adopted in the non-profit sector.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Staff felt that often the only way to try new tools, engage with the public who were already adopting and investing in online platforms, and stay on top of the fast-moving digital space was to go around rules or organizational policies. http ://amysampleward.org/2011/01/20/diy-community-engagement-metrics /. That was a silly time.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Author: Martin Campbell. On 1st July 2011, Convio entered the UK through the acquisition of Baigent Digital , one of the UK’s leading online fundraising and web agency supporting charities. Our adoption of technology is at a different stage as well.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

As Camilla Stivers (2000) puts it, “Women reformers recognized that private philanthropy was ill equipped to cope with the scale and seriousness of urban problems; charities had neither the public authority nor the necessary financial resources” (p. Frank (2011). Sources. ^ [1] Gordon E. Shockley and Peter M. Like this article?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

NTEN used a hybrid crowdsourcing approach to solicit panel proposals for its NTC 2011, similar in design and approach to the method SXSW has used. Impact measures not only looking at the total amount raised, but also the adoption of new online social fundraising tools which was a key objective.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In 2013, she co-authored Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to implement online multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money, and engage your community with Allyson Kaplin. She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2011

This post was authored by Salem Kimble, social media development manager with BetterWorld Telecom. We commissioned a nine-month study with Bainbridge Graduate Institute on the environmental and business impacts of adopting a virtual work environment, the result of that study was a framework called BetterWork TM.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Lastly, we travel to advocate for the world to change, from a position of authority based on the change our organizations are already delivering. I had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it.

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