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Shameless Ask, Looking for SXSW 2012 Nonprofit Votes!

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SXSW 2012 session voting is nearing the end. If you’re not familiar with the process The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a huge new media event. Come ready to interact, discuss, and figure out how to convert your supporters into active change agents for good. –> Vote Now !

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What are Effective Strategies Nonprofit Organizations Use to Improve Diversity and Inclusion?

ASU Lodestar Center

The 2012 State of the Work Report shows that “people of color make up 37 percent of program offices at foundations…21 percent of U.S. managerial/professional workforce, but only 10-17 percent of CEO and board leadership at foundations” (Ryan, 2012, p. In 1988, the chairman hired a hearing individual as board president.

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Research Friday: Does your nonprofit have an outcome-driven culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. As part of a.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To most patrons, HDL merely delivers titles and page numbers as results, but the University of Michigan’s Library, one of the HathiTrust members, does allow access to the full text of copyrighted works for people with qualifying print disabilities. The Court of Appeals explicitly included image accessibility in its ruling.

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Public Policy and SOX: Pricey or Priceless!

ASU Lodestar Center

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Nezhina of DePaul University and Jeffrey L. Brudney of Cleveland State University, a base for the future has been identified from this short period of history. 22, Number 3, Spring 2012.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. 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 As part of a. 5] [link]. [6]

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Research Friday: Lessons in board governance

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight current nonprofit research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day practice. Thankfully, a recent survey conducted by BoardSource in 2012 shows signs of increased governance among nonprofits 2.