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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

Playing games has pushed into the primetime market, and with that statement, Chris Swain , CEO and Founder of Talkie, displayed a slide that showed weekly audience numbers for the wildly popular social game, FarmVille, towering above primetime television shows such as Dancing with the Stars , NBC Sunday Night Football and CSI.

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Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think They Should Do Their Work!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012). But our reviews have also shown us that there may be other models that would allow more flexibility in what we fund, and how we support our programs and grantees, and make room for more partnering with others in the field.

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How Quickbooks Helps a Nonprofit Recharge Teenagers

Tech Soup

The organization has a radical sliding scale of $35 to $1,500 for a teen retreat so that poor youth can experience the benefits of mindfulness. She told me that when the organization started in 2011, "We were doing our accounting on handwritten spreadsheets and then graduated to Excel. We modeled mindfulness for them.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. She loves interacting with communities online. Over and over again.

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Memo from the Revolution: Six Things I've Learned from our Institutional Transformation

Museum 2.0

You can download all the slides here. When I came to the museum in May of 2011, we were on the brink of closure financially. We use a clear logic model to relate our activities to their intended outcomes and impacts (here''s more about what a logic model is ). First, a quick recap on our revolution.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. We will use the time to debrief and experiment with a few of these techniques — some of which would have been modeled during the conference. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. Begin Connections.

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Are you BEGS-ing?

Connection Cafe

We needed to fit our bespoke program onto a PowerPoint slide and have everyone in the room understand our approach. We’d been doing this for years, but had never coined a name - and so it was born – our BEGS model. BEGS is our paradigm for successful donor acquisition.

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