ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. “I This kind of phenomenon can be seen in a 2011 joint report from Social Finance, Inc. One such model is the Social Impact Bond (SIB).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Let’s face it; every day we use our smartphones and mobile technology to get through daily and simple tasks, from finding information, to exercise, to learning new languages, even finding the nearest grocery store. Gamification is a great motivator when research, information technology, and graphic design- all align. Engagement Model.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"The digital revolution is changing the hierarchy of information," said Dr. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons. " Today, information is published from the 'bottom up' or from user-generated sources. YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The irony is that if nonprofits had good measurement systems in would enrich third-party evaluations and external rating approaches! The even bigger one, in my view, is the acute shortage of talent in the sector, which I just wrote about in I’ll Take Great People Over Great Models Any Day.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

She told me that when the organization started in 2011, "We were doing our accounting on handwritten spreadsheets and then graduated to Excel. As we began organizing many more retreats, we needed a proper accounting system." Tracking PayPal donation payments and integrating them into the accounting system.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Disclaimer Thursday, February 17, 2011 $250,000 Collaboration Prize Finalists Announced posted by Jill Watts , Director of Capacity Building Initiatives ASU Lodestar Center Today the Lodestar Foundation announced the eight Finalists for the 2011 Collaboration Prize. This information is organized in an easy-to-use, online database.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A third (33%) of nonprofit executives take over from someone who was fired or forced to resign, according to the 2011 Daring to Lead report, which surveyed 3000 nonprofit executive directors earlier this year. Are there plans to select a system for that? Author: Jennifer Darrouzet. ” Follow-up questions might be. Staff email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

But what if you could take a systems approach to social fundraising that would leverage social fundraising done by individual organizations and give it focus? If the dollar amounts for campaigns are modest, why invest the effort? They don’t often value community engagement as a metric for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org is a data-informed organization that uses a ladder of engagement not only to guide its content and social media integration strategy, but uses measurement at each rung of the ladder to ensure that they are getting results. This helps inform decisions about content topics. Source: grist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. If your true goal is inspire people to learn, then you need to incorporate techniques so people can process the information every ten minutes. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. These really informed the project, and helped get the word out about the gallery. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning. Why Community?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Since moving its systems to Salesforce, the team has been able to stay lean by cutting out hours of what used to be manual data entry and management of disparate spreadsheets and applications. Salesforce Einstein and dashboards surface valuable member information in easy-to-view charts for steering growth.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

That’s the complicated part of social change - complicated problems call for complicated solutions, even when our business models force us to focus on one simple arena. In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2011

signage, news announcements, event information, and so on, can be shown. professional signage systems such as 3M, Cisco, and CDW. As their computer technician, I was able to research, design, present, and eventually install the new system. The model we chose has. Additional detailed information is. unattainable.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Ideally, your nonprofit’s CMS (content management system) has been updated to include responsive design , but the problematic reality is that most CMS services commonly used in the nonprofit sector are as behind on the Mobile Web as the nonprofits are themselves. A mobile website should not be modeled after your desktop site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In 2011, Eric Ries published The Lean Startup , which challenges startup and business founders to build and run their companies in a new way – maximizing customer value and revenue while minimizing wasted effort. 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact by Meg Rulli. Fasal was created to combat this issue.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Sunday, November 7, 2010 How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour Kansas City’s Joe Calhoon, published earlier this month, The 1 Hour Plan for Growth , where he provides a system for creating a clear and compelling business plan for growth. Use print to provide detailed information. Objectives 5.Strategies Strategies 6.Priorities

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2010

I particularly like the parts about: How much information is enough information to communicate How to choose the best communication channel How to manage your companys rumor mill David recently told me that his eBook is for any leader. Use print to provide detailed information. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

ZDnet describes it as the product of sensors, technology and networking all coming together to allow buildings, infrastructure and other resources to swap information. Disconnect doesn’t log any keywords, personal information, or IP addresses after it routes your query to its own servers. It has been in use in Europe since 2011.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Lighting : Use more efficient lighting systems, such as those with motion sensors, particularly in your office bathrooms. Use print to provide detailed information. Electronic Payments : Pay vendors electronically and eliminate paper invoices and checks. Payroll : Encourage employees to use direct deposit instead of mailed paychecks.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The plan is to build 11,000 “Solara 60″ model drones that are capable of providing satellite Internet to places on earth without Internet connectivity starting with Africa. TechCrunch. reported earlier this month that Facebook is buying Titan Aerospace for $60 million. The World Wide Web Turns 25. This 25 th. The Big Picture.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, I wanted to focus on the market trends and influences that will inform how nonprofits implement and leverage this technology. For a refresher, my 2013 piece Non-Technology Trends for the CIO and a 2011 white paper for the Association of Fundraising Professionals on similar topics may be good places to start and worth a read as well.).

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Facebook already has a system in place for recognizing your birthday and alerting your friends. Causes' goals for 2011 include a redesign and a deeper focus on key features. The model is dependent on you telling your friends and networks what you care about. An Example of Causes: Birthday Wish. Massive number of people.

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