ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day. Earlier this year, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) received 4,600 responses to our annual 2012 State of the Sector Survey. So what happened in 2011, and what are respondents planning for 2012?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The graph and the data I used to create it is material for one of my graduate seminars at ASU called The Nonprofit Sector , and students always seem interested in thinking about why exemptions might bounce around from year to year. That’s actually 41 in November and only 20 that December (2012). Like this article? Get another!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. In December 2012 Charity Navigator released the concept note for CN 3.0 – their next version of Charity Navigator. Karina Lungo is a graduate student of the Master of Nonprofit Studies degree at Arizona State University.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Dubbed "Model B+," it's the third model the organization has released to the public since Model A went on sale in 2012. For a rundown on what all these components are, check out our hardware basics article. The Raspberry Pi was designed to help educators and students understand technology better.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s report follows on the heels of Giving USA’s 2012 report for 2011 giving, where the total current individual giving was reported to be $217.79 Sources: [1] Giving USA Foundation, Giving USA 2012, pg.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Note: This article will focus on international development from my perspective working in an African country, although the questions raised are pertinent to any “developed” country or continent’s relationship to a “developing” region.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. Like this article? As part of a. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 10, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. The answer lies, in part, in the general economic outlook for nonprofits: NFF’s 2012 State of the Sector survey showed that demand for services is markedly up , while the funding to meet these needs has not kept pace. Like this article?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2012

This article sparked some interesting discussion online with colleagues from natural history museums, which deal with damage and touching very differently than art institutions do. We're working at my museum on a strategic approach to our educational outreach with K12 classes and students. How should (and do) we treat them?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 5, 2012

The 2012 report has some very encouraging results, and helps give shape to a demographic you probably are not currently attracting in a meaningful way. Lars Ward is a graduate student in the Lodestar Center's Master of Nonprofit Studies program at Arizona State University. Like this article? Get another!

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 26, 2013

continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. In the article Non-profit branding: Cause and brand effect the author states “Lots of not-for-profits were set up to deal with public symptoms. Like this article? Alex Flores , Teach For America. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a. Get another!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2013

This is not so daunting as it sounds, for there are many excellent university based programs in Guatemala where business professors consult on the side or have practicum programs where advanced degree students are required to do projects in communities that need to learn their skills. Like this article? Why train people to fail?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 2, 2012

to my alma mater in honor of my graduation year, and have received a thank you email, letter, alumni car decal, and a second thank you letter personally written from a current student at the university. Like this article? For example, I gave $20.08 They call them “worthless,” “not an incentive to give,” and, “a waste of money.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. 22, Number 3, Spring 2012. 22, Number 3, Spring 2012. 22, Number 3, Spring 2012. 22, Number 3, Spring 2012. Like this article? posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional. in Residence. ASU Lodestar Center.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Arizona 2012 , is a comprehensive, user-friendly tool that can be used by agencies and individuals to help Arizona’s families make real progress toward economic security. Like this article?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Laura Quinn shared her ideas at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , in a session called More Than Apps: Affordable Program Delivery Through Mobile Phones. More mobile devices are sold worldwide than PCs, and mobile is expected to overtake PCs as the most popular way to access the Internet in the next few years. Director of Idealware.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2013

continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Like this article? Read Angela Francis'' " Research Friday: The Results are In - State of the Sector 2012.". Anjali Deshmukh , Associate Director. Angela Francis , Senior Associate. Nonprofit Finance Fund. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

It was the first mainstream article that I saw that described people being paid to blog. Gallaga cites a specific example of giving money to DonorsChoose.org, a company that connects students and teachers to people who would like to donate. But hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these difficult times.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

posted by Kelly Proulx , MNpS Student & Research Technician, Arizona State University. She is currently a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at ASU, planning to graduate in December 2012. Like this article? Welcome to Research Friday ! We welcome your comments and feedback. America's Senior Volunteers."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Nostalgia is much more than mere reminiscing; it’s a warm, fuzzy emotion that we feel when we think about fond memories from our past. In a 2012 study, researchers discovered that nostalgizing helps people relate their past experiences to their present lives in order to make greater meaning of it all. Fun, Games, and Giveaways!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Sources: OECD; Hudson Institute's remittances calculations from DAC donors to DAC recipients based on data from the World Bank's Migration and Remittance Team's Bilateral Remittance Matrix , 2010; Hudson Institute, 2012. Like this article?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in September 2009. ” In other words, if the new PC market grows by by 9% worldwide in 2012 as is forecast by the business research firm IDC , then the used PC market will grow as well. Nor are those rumors anything new.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You can watch the video below to see a moving speech from 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who founded the Fridays for Future movement that has seen hundreds of thousands of students striking from school across the world. The movement calls themselves BirthStrikers, and you can read more about them in this Guardian article.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You can watch the video below to see a moving speech from 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who founded the Fridays for Future movement that has seen hundreds of thousands of students striking from school across the world. The movement calls themselves BirthStrikers, and you can read more about them in this Guardian article.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For all of the substantive areas that I can think of, there is already a group taking on impact litigation—whether you are working with immigrant clients, the unhoused, students, children in the foster care system, or any number of marginalized groups. You should team up with a nonprofit that is already handling this type of litigation.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. Students Need Your Help to Help Others. This article originally appeared on HuffPost Impact. Back in 2011, I started collecting all the emails that nonprofits sent me during the month of December and reviewed what was in my inbox. 5 moments that inspired us in 2015.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

In retail, Amazon is so 2012. It previously offered reduced cost Internet plans only to families with students who qualify for free or reduced-cost school lunches. The company is so controversial that the comments are often more fun to read than the main articles on it in the IT press. New Industry Leaders. Mobile and Apps.

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