Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Alternatively, some companies have created online “merch,” like shirts that people can buy for their virtual avatars. . Cryptocurrency to date has been built on a proof of work model that is incredibly energy intensive. Speaking and charity events can be hosted virtually, much like virtual concerts.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

This is a cultural shift that involves everyone; nonprofit leaders and staff, board members, volunteers, donors, foundation leaders, members of the public and others. According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

The same constructs which were discussed around combating issue fatigue can be used in creating a cultural movement around an issue. There are a few foundational questions to be asked before building a cultural movement through the use of media and storytelling. that effective cultural movements move.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends. Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Alternatively, for-profit organizations can generally choose how they want to distribute work across their team and whether they want to see certain projects through or wrap them up before completion. Fostering culture: HR teams also play a major role in building your organization’s culture.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2019

She answered a few questions for us about their success with alternative funding and the journey they went on to create a diversified program. This fund consists almost exclusively of foundation grants and alternative funding sources like PRIs or public/private partnerships. How has it affected the culture of the organization?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. If you wish to make a difference that may mean looking at an alternative place to affect change than the one you first envisioned. Could I have listened more?

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BoardAssist

JULY 30, 2014

Requires that the audit committee consider alternative transactions and determine that the transaction is fair, reasonable, and in the best interest of the nonprofit as a prerequisite for approval. . model conflict of interest policy. model whistleblower policy. NYS Attorney General. Nixon Peabody.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I attended because I'm seeking new ways to share the MAH's model and support the development of more community-centered cultural institutions around the world. I learned a ton at Skid Row School, but the lesson that still keeps me up at night is this one: when you want to scale and spread a model, you have to distill it to its essence.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

Cultural organizations, community members, and museum leaders have spoken out against the sale. As Diane Ragsdale put it , "When communities become markets, citizens become consumers, and culture becomes an exploitable product." Food banks have an auction-based model. Cue public uproar and legal action to block the auction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.”

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

Strategy is knowing your organization’s business model. There are a number of good resources out there for mapping your organization’s business model, including The Business Model Canvas. Nonprofits face competition not only from other nonprofits or businesses but from alternative ways individuals could meet their needs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 23, 2018

The implementation of innovation and adaptability is a business model that should not only be accepted but embraced by the third sector and its donors (members). Many member-based organizations “are struggling to maintain membership, generate and increase participation, attract volunteers, and compete with alternative service offerings.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2013

The traditional charity model is based on the expectation that organizations raise funds from institutions and individuals in order to provide services to those in need, primarily free of charge. Alternately, joining forces with. Some have suggested we charge a fee for our services, but I am reluctant to go down this road.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

We were especially thrilled to learn that one of TechSoup's nonprofit members, Year Up , was spotlighted as a model for employment and technology training. " In other words, you can provide an endless amount of technology training to a young person, but that won't fully prepare them for so-called "corporate culture."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2007

It goes to point to some alternative viewpoints on cc licensing: A similar argument is made by Niva Elkin-Koren in ??? in which she argues that Creative Commons licensing, even if introducing an alternative and open licensing model, nevertheless ???strengthens Creative Commons: A Skeptical View of a Worthy Pursuit ???,

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

aggregates and filters Warsaw cultural events. The team wanted to create a platform for both mainstream and alternative events. The Apps4Warsaw team will use these learnings as they scale Apps4Warsaw and expand the competition model to other countries in central and eastern Europe. Second Place: Curtain up!

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

This recommendation is about remembering, always, to seek alternative points of view. Dig deep into what made past partnerships work , taking your lessons from successful models you can repurpose. Leverage these insights to develop a partnership model that maximizes your organization’s skill and personality.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

" The organization serves refugee and immigrant survivors of human rights abuses with a team that speaks 25 different languages to meet the cultural and linguistic needs of Mosaic's clients. This model reduces barriers and also provides a more comfortable setting for our clients." Image 1: Alternatives to Violence.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

They arbitrated replicas, reproductions, models, and props. And when it comes to art, a forced focus on "the real thing" can mean less access to cultural artifacts. The combination of "real" and "doesn''t work" isn''t a viable alternative. They explored a huge range of museum objects and grey areas of "realness."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Our new catalog and website will be up within the next two months.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. I think that the culture barrier is a really big deal, especially when it comes to dealing with very technical issues. But it needs addressing. {

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. What is it?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

There are also cultural, social, and interpersonal challenges that will go along with this transition. In this model, your organization will have no idea where the hardware actually providing your services is located -- and, better yet, you won't care. That said, the transformation to an office-less society is not complete.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2015

Caring Partners uses the wraparound model , which is a care management process for youths with serious or complex needs. When a child enters Caring Partners, a care manager assesses the strengths, needs, values, and culture of the family in order to create an Individualized Service Plan (ISP).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

There are many folks who've written about the problems with "value" membership and have recommended that cultural institutions reorient toward offering "affinity" or "relationship" memberships. Tags: membership business models. Because they validate the highly-problematic concept of membership as a discount. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. What is it?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

And then there's the Berkeley Ace hardware store, which has a basement lair devoted to model trains. In his identity work , John Falk determined that people use cultural institutions to reflect their personal self-concept as learners, social leaders, spiritual pilgrims, hobbyists, and experience seekers. What's going on here?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

The last ten years saw our work move toward the service sector as rentals become a very real part of our business model. We've morphed ourselves into an alternate history. We seek cultural institutions of all sizes, with collaborators of varied job titles across digital, social, education, curatorial, and marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

" Be A Role Model of Generosity. He notes, "So we model the values that we hope our children will emulate, and support charities that our kids can see connections to. Parents and relatives are the best role model for their kids in sharing generosity, that is,generosity is passed on from generation to generation."

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

" Given the natural affinity between the principals of open source development -- peer production, collaboration, transparency -- and the goals and culture of many civic sector organizations, it makes sense for decision makers and tech staff to at least keep up to date on developments in the open source world. and licensing models.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Blueprint is a maddening sketch of the museum that might have been, one that alternates between shaky and bold strokes. Hooks based on popular culture. It's hardly a model for an entirely new approach to museum design. These guys won't be running for office anytime soon. Immersive design. Lots of screens. Limited interactivity.

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Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

This is, perhaps, a holdover from the paternalistic philanthropic model of the late 1800s, when so-called charity work (as opposed to mutual aid) was reserved for white, upper-middle-class women (and had its slew of racist, classist biases that came along with it). Want to know how to get started? Rethink personnel policies and practices.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. Tags: interview membership visitors business models. Thanks to John and Beverly, and here's to keeping the conversation going!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Director Lewis Sharp and I quickly convinced the Belmar developers that they didn't want paintings from the basement, but a dynamic alternative to the traditional art museum. In this way, The Lab is selling an art experience the same way Urban Outfitters sells youth culture--and in my mind, that's a positive, not a negative.

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