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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. Before their book was published in 2005, the authors “studied over 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years.” ABMS studied the literature.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

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Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. About the TAG study. Data analysis on the forms was conducted by data scientist Kwame Porter Robinson, a PhD student specializing in human interaction with artificial intelligence (HAII) and natural language understanding (NLU) at the University of Michigan's School of Information.

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Research Friday: What Affects Hispanic Volunteering - Comparing Three Surveys in the United States

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Few existing empirical studies, however, have examined what affects Hispanics' decision to volunteer and what type of organizations they volunteer for.

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Can you use social media to spread thought leadership? Yes you can!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Michigan for the chapter leaders of EPIP which stands for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and again this week for the Bay Area Chapter. It's about field scanning, pattern analysis, and trends. Why not have those items shared more broadly?

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

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Analysis shows that giving is shifting online. Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan’s Giving Tuesday giving day donation page. Or do you want to inspire your supporters with Bible study classes? How can your church overcome this obstacle or even thrive in a world of declining tithes? Accept tithes online. Themed giving days.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. Working on a series of research studies on the benefits of games. Interested in games as an objective component to study.

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

Qgiv

Analysis shows that giving is shifting online. Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan’s Giving Tuesday giving day donation page. Or do you want to inspire your supporters with Bible study classes? How can your church overcome this obstacle or even thrive in a world of declining tithes? Accept tithes online. Themed giving days.

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