ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Only within the last decade has research on the efficacy of evaluating the effects of art on audiences been realized (Brown & Novak, 2013). However, the studies in measuring intrinsic impact were intended for “internal assessment and critical reflection purposes” (Brown & Novak, 2013). July, 2013). Sources: Brown, A.

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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. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. We’d love to meet you there!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 16, 2017

One study has found that 47 percent of US jobs are at high risk of automation (Frey and Osborne, 2013). Nonprofits can, and should, advocate for an expansion of funding grants and other sources of funding that will allow them to scale their services. Elon Musk doubles down on universal basic income. Norton & Company.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 11, 2013

They are called "next gen major donors," and according to a recent report issued by the Johnson Center at Grand Valley State University and 21/64 , they will "have tremendous influence on the direction of and support for efforts to improve local communities and solve global problems over the next several decades.". Only time will tell.

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2013

Haven''t renewed your 2013 NTEN membership or thinking of joining? From July 1 through August 30 you can join or renew for 2014 and get the rest of 2013 free! The 2013 Millennial Impact Report was recently released by Achieve, which seeks to help nonprofits better understand and engage with this group. Help out with a study!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 26, 2019

Federal, state and local governments increasingly depend on Social Service nonprofit organizations and, because of that dependency, have been willing to help fund them. government funding accounts for approximately one-third of the annual revenue received by nonprofit organizations, primarily through grants and contracts.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Before the advent of simple survey software, which leveled the playing field, surveys were run by businesses and organizations large enough to have a statistical department or a partnership with a university. Is your organization’s location having an impact on your funding? Are you receiving your fair share of government funding?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2018

Nonprofits rely heavily on giving from private citizens to have the funds necessary to carry out their mission and strengthen their communities. Wealthy donors tend to give more to larger nonprofits such as universities, hospitals, and arts and cultural groups. 3988, The Universal Charitable Giving Act of 2017.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Be upfront about the funds it will take to implement or run a program. 2013, March). Tufts University Press. Tyler Adams completed his Bachelor’s degree in Leisure, Youth and Human Services with an emphasis in Nonprofit Management at the University of Northern Iowa back in 2013. Pallotta, D. Retrieved from [link].

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Giving USA reported that more than $300 billion was donated to charities in 2013, with nearly 70 percent of those donations coming from individuals. LinkedIn is well suited for in-person relationship building that will support larger gifts being sought by annual fund and major gift fundraisers. LinkedIn in Action.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Overnight, banks and financial institutions are in crisis, the stock market plunges, interest rates and housing prices drop, corporate sales and profits dip, employment lines grow, funds everywhere dry up. As the funding pot boiled down, nonprofit managers tightened our belts. Best of luck and hard work to all in 2013.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

One of the biggest changes to Bookshare in the last ten years has been in the area of education, through funding from the Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). But doing the same thing in 2017, or even in 2013, isn’t an option if we want to best serve our users and increase our impact in a changing world.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Editor's note — This blog piece by Micah Sifry touches on the still inadequate state of funding for nonprofit technology. Foundation Center's new Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy platform reveals the state of nonprofit technology funding in a critical area in some detail. democracy. What the Data Reveals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

A study by The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University found that key priorities for corporate philanthropy include: Professional development experiences for employees. In New York , for every customer who switches to electronic billing, Con Edison is donating $1 to Trees New York’s tree planting fund.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. With serious disasters abroad in 2013 eclipsing those in the U.S., “It costs money to bring in money,” McGinly said. .

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Although there is very limited data on Millennial attendance each year, AAM’s Trendswatch 2013 report highlights that Millennials have a tendency to give to and connect with other causes first. So how do institutions raise funds from this demographic? The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) seems to think we won’t. The New York Times.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

In July, the Berkshire Museum released its $60,000,000 New Vision , along with a funding mechanism: selling 40 of its most valuable artworks. It had a collection and an endowment (funded by deaccessioning) to grow and perpetuate that collection. Here's what happened. Trustees can hold their noses and roll the dice if they want to.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 1, 2013

Lucy Bernholz, in a report coproduced by Grantcraft , Stanford PACS and the Stanford Social Innovation Review , titled Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint for 2013 (hereafter, “the Blueprint”) challenges readers to think about a new paradigm which looks at all “private resources for public good” (p.2),

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

The Lifeline Program is funded through the Universal Service Fund via contributions from telecom companies (and their customers). According to the 2013–2014 Digital Inclusion Survey : 98.9 Organizations Doing Notable Digital Inclusion Work. percent of libraries offer public access to Internet-connected computers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Fund for UNICEF, and United Way Worldwide to bring more mobile technology resources charities. CITEworld recently reported that researchers at the University of Southern California and other universities are experimenting with bacteria with names like geobacter and shewanella that conduct electricity. The Give App.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

One of my main projects this past year, and continuing into 2015 was to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 31, 2015

When not crafting beautiful musings for WonderWe, Josh can be found cooking up the latest Paleo dish (his fiancee’s fault), cycling all over God’s creation and/or endeavoring to understand the mysterious ways of the universe. Crowdfunding is all the rage these days. Why Crowdfund? If you don’t get the hang of this, you’ll risk losing out.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 31, 2015

When not crafting beautiful musings for WonderWe, Josh can be found cooking up the latest Paleo dish (his fiancee’s fault), cycling all over God’s creation and/or endeavoring to understand the mysterious ways of the universe. Crowdfunding is all the rage these days. Why Crowdfund? If you don’t get the hang of this, you’ll risk losing out.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 19, 2016

Adjunct Professor, Grand Canyon University. According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics at The Urban Institute, 2013 saw $1.74 If we do not, we run the risk of damaging our donor base and running out the potential for funds. He received a BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona in 2003.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The group’s leader is Martin Brookes , a British economist at a hedge fund, who got the idea after a phone call. Become Someone’s Homework: If you have a college or university in your town, why not become someone’s homework? But a British outfit called Pro Bono Economics is giving away its services. “A big U.K.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

" Facebook piloted "Donate" buttons for some big charities like the Red Cross and the American Cancer Society back in 2013. The program is administered by the PayPal Giving Fund , eBay's nonprofit partner. Find out about Philanthropy University's Amazing (Free!) Let us know in the comments. Online Courses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

In addition to the Emerging Leaders Peer Learning project, I continued to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. One happy, healthy habit I started in Oct, 2013, was to integrate more movement into my work day.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2017

The Philanthropy Outlook from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy projects a 3.6 The 2016 Giving In Numbers report from the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy found that corporate giving teams are growing in both size (a 3 percent in increase since 2013) and prominence. Even better news?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

When the campaign “tilts” (reaches the goal) then everybody’s cards are charged and you’ll get the funds. As of June 2013, there were 70 million users, and 30 percent of those were active. How it works for nonprofits: In the age where content marketing is everything, use this as a platform to publish your work to the universe.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He estimated that half the developers were hobbyists, and half were people with start-up ventures who came to San Francisco looking for seed funding. launched in August 2013 when they became available to app developers for $1,500 – by invitation only. The conference attracted 1,200 attendees. Of Cybernetics and Singularity.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Studies done by Dunham+Company in both 2013 and 2018 reveal that even many leading nonprofit organizations have struggled to implement common best practices. In many cases, we are not dealing with unknowable or unsolvable mysteries of the online giving universe. Donor-advised funds (DAFs) will no longer be just for wealthy donors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2017

The community’s homeless housing and service providers were aware how the funding cuts would drastically eliminate transitional shelter beds within the family shelter portfolio. In conjunction, knowledge of why systems approach can be necessary to provide universal cohesive services. References: Grudinschi, D., Kaljunen, L.,

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2022

The Vega Awards acknowledge those who create and continually expand the digital universe. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funds research to help patients, caregivers, clinicians, policymakers, researchers, insurers, and other stakeholders make informed healthcare decisions. Farm to School Census.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Janet is also a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and she runs a satellite office of LIS there. Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)? I am happy to help advocate that donors take a serious look at funding Janet and LIS make this happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching! Creepy is great for a Halloween costume, but not so great for raising funds so you can change the world. I’m a consultant and university professor who specializes in pitching, for crying out loud, and I still mess up! Contest ends October 25, 2013, so start pitching!

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