Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013. The guide offers a few examples, and a reminder that you don’t have to use them all: Dollars to be raised. If you are the person tasked with supporting this team, remember you have to model enthusiasm and make it contagious. Number of donors. Number of new donors.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 22, 2021

For example, a business that is dependent on its owner will have People as its weakest component. Many business owners do not have the right people working in their business and therefore end up working in their business instead of on their business, a huge mistake. An example of this is Blockbuster.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

For example, a business that is dependent on its owner will have People as its weakest component. Many business owners do not have the right people working in their business and therefore end up working in their business instead of on their business, a huge mistake. An example of this is Blockbuster.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2021

For example, a business that is dependent on its owner will have People as its weakest component. Many business owners do not have the right people working in their business and therefore end up working in their business instead of on their business, a huge mistake. An example of this is Blockbuster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. Sharing memories from Seminar 2013 at the #icnola reunion! RamahSeminar (@RamahSeminar) December 24, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, the game NeuroRacer can help the elderly improve their multitasking skills, with improvements in everyday activities that last for at least six months, according to a study published by a research team led by Dr. Adam Gazzaley. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City.

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2014

In November of 2013 Upworthy traffic grew to about 87M unique visits, which was quite a drastic leap from less than 5 million a year ago, according to Quantcast. Just because this tactic works for Upworthy (who is driven by a ton of testing on their own website) does not mean it will work for your organization.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The session was facilitated by Susan Feeney, Partner at GMMB , and explored the range of new media models and venture journalism experiments. “As According to the 2013 Foundation Center report , U.S. Experimentation through initiatives such as these apps has synchronously impacted the work of legacy media. in 2011. “The

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Conducted in January and February 2013, Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2013 State of the Sector survey assessed the financial and management challenges facing 5,983 organizations across the country. Fundamentally overhauling a business model can be risky and expensive. In the basic PFS model, private. As part of a.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

TechSoup Global’s CEO Rebecca Masisak is presenting at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 this month in Minneapolis. The Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 is having some of my heroes speak at the event. This model of social enterprise is gaining adoption in various parts of the world. That got me to wondering.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 11, 2013

For example, one interviewee, David, is a financial adviser from a family of long-term philanthropists. Will the next generation really create new institutions and models? References: NextGenDonors: Respecting Legacy, Revolutionizing Philanthropy (2013). She currently works in the public sector. Only time will tell.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

At the 2013 American Alliance of Museums annual conference, a group of exhibition designers explored authenticity in a session called Is it Real? They arbitrated replicas, reproductions, models, and props. While many of their examples came from history and natural science, one of my favorite examples is from art.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The recent award winners of the 2012 Grinnell Prize are a great example. Chen and Liang’s entrepreneurial design for an infant incubator for use in the developing world is the basis for Embrace’s work today. Many amazing people do this kind of work in our communities, and you probably know a few.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Social proof is particularly powerful when famous people are setting the example. They hit on three major pain points for nonprofit donors: Most donors prefer to know that their money goes directly to helping people rather than to operating costs (hence the “100% model”).

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

The capital campaign model allows you to flexibly scale your goal as fundraising dollars come in and you get a real sense of the campaign’s performance so far. She became a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) in 2004 and received the ACFRE in 2013. It’s also important to remember that you can be flexible.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

There are very few charities I've come across that are as wide-ranging in their tech-for-good work as our French TechSoup Global partner, Ateliers du Bocage (ADB). ADB works in and around what the Europeans call the "Circular Economy." ADB's work is in three main areas: Local. The Circular Economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013. I use low tech tools first – paper, markers, sticky notes, and sticky dots. Participants spend time working together to draw their networks — people and organizations who are important to reaching their organization’s outcomes. Radio Bilingue.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River staff members work with other conservation organizations from the beginning of each of their book projects to arrange public outreach campaigns that include presentations, publicity, and exhibits that reach beyond the printed page to audiences beyond the traditional environmental core. They said you want an example?

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River staff members work with other conservation organizations from the beginning of each of their book projects to arrange public outreach campaigns that include presentations, publicity, and exhibits that reach beyond the printed page to audiences beyond the traditional environmental core. They said you want an example?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants took the “Columbia Leadership Styles” diagnostic created by Paul Ingram and Bruce Craven in 2013 that session leader Jeffrey Golde had customized for arts leaders. Next Janet shared examples of empowering questions that help facilitate listening and coaching. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Brian Spicker: What's wonderful about that article is it’s something I think all of us in the social sector have been working on, they just happened to present it elegantly. I think in this work that we do what’s exciting is that we meet people who really care. Can you talk a little about those key elements?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Telework (also called telecommuting) is where an employee regularly does their work outside of the office, usually at home or when traveling. To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. Telework By Any Other Name.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Wearables have been around a long time; an example would be hearing aids or the Sony Walkman. Another example is the Philips Lifeline gadget from late night TV commercial fame in which an elderly person wears a monitor that calls 911 if they fall down. CNET: How Google Glass works: now and tomorrow. Where Wearables Came From.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2017

There’s a parallel and complementary movement in philanthropy, with organizations like ideas42 and The Gates Foundation working to help people become more goals-focused and plan-oriented with their giving. Check out The Adventure Project’s Giving Calculator as a great example of how to help donors start changing their behavior.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

"Now" is not an easy business model to chase--especially for institutions rooted in permanence. Now" requires major changes to how we work and what we offer. I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Or museums that extend their hours to match working people's schedules. And now is not tomorrow.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

When Detroit was going bankrupt in 2013, the city's emergency manager fought to sell off some of the prized artworks in the Detroit Institute of Art. Accredited American zoos, for example, have a strict policy that governs how animals move from one institution to another. Food banks have an auction-based model.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

(bring your own device) movement has been a staple topic in the IT press, and it is commonplace for us to use our own mobile phones and tablets for work related activities. As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. In Mozambique, for example, a recent study showed that using just 1GB of data can cost well over two months’ wages for the average citizen. All that and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

For example, nonprofit IRS filings—IRS Forms 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, and 990-N, which U.S. In fact, Candid centers much of its work on collecting, standardizing, and making this data available. There’s incredible diversity of size and revenue models across the nonprofit sector, however. Which nonprofits are led by people of color?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2017

Cross-sector collaboration can be defined as partnerships between nonprofit, private, and government entities working together towards mutual goals to produce change (Simo & Bies, 2007). By providing attention to building leadership within, these collaborations could model authority, vision, long term commitment and integrity.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 3, 2018

Many leaders are working towards collaboration; however, “larger cultural contexts remain firmly anchored to the myth of the heroic individual leader” (Senge, et. For example, the poverty rate in the United States increased from 12.4 Shore, Hammond, Celep, 2013). Shore, Hammond, Celep, 2013). percent in 2000 to 15.5

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Bernholz’s challenges actors in the social sector which include funders to think beyond the philanthropic-nonprofit funding model. Let’s look at an example recently highlighted in a GrantCraft post that looked at Foundation Supported Social Enterprises (FOSE Model)[3]. She has worked in the public, private and nonprofit sectors.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 11, 2014

You’ve worked hard to build a solid relationship with each of your donors, but sometimes life happens and active donors become in memoriam donors. Understanding how the inheritance laws work in your state can make a big difference when talking to potential legacy donors. In 2013, the first $5.25

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2013

Tech Impact is watching some interesting trends emerge in nonprofit technology in 2013. There is some great work being done in the sector by organizations like DataKind, led by Jake Porway. Take, for example, their work with DC Action for Children. Here's what we see: Big Data. This is a "Big" topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

Great data in a nonprofit will work the same way – you won’t even be conscious of it. Nancy used the analogy of operating like car company that puts out different vehicle models and each year will have a different version with different features. For example, one of them is “Collections.” Or involuntary actions, like breathing.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 16, 2015

Lego Ideas asks for actual models of your Lego set idea. This form of crowdsourcing puts the power in the hands of the crowd by farming out decisions and work that will have a minimal impact on the actual business practices of the organization. For example, contests let supporters submit ideas and/or vote on them.

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