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Measuring Impact: Feature Article from the Latest Issue of NTEN:Change

Amy Sample Ward

[Note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ]. Continue reading this article, which includes more resources and tips, when you subscribe to NTEN:Change for free!

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Changing our vision of Change: Revisiting the Pollyanna Principles

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Last week, the New York Times ran an article exploring a segment of the nonprofit/social impact sector that the author saw as a small minority of organizations, but one I care deeply about: those that plan to go out of business. The article featured Malaria No More, and their vision of the project’s work: to end Malaria.

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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? The giant encyclopedia site announced this weekend that it will now roll-out site-wide an article rating system that allows page visitors to rate an entry on a scale of 1 to 5 on trustworthiness, objectivity, completeness and quality of writing.

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Conversation Starter: Digital Natives Moving Offline

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—– The article from Spiegel Online International begins: They may have been dubbed the “Internet generation,&# but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. It goes on to examine a few ideas and theories about the next generation and their relationship with the Internet.

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New on SSIR: Should Nonprofits Act Like Businesses or People?

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From there, you may click on a news article that a friend posted and then tweet it out using the embedded sharing options. Imagine that you are you, enjoying some personal, non-professional time, then go online. What do you do? Which tools do you use? For example, maybe you notice that you check your email and then go to Facebook.

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Great reads from around the web on May 17th

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million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. The Wikimedia Foundation, which finances and oversees the nonprofit site, received a $1.2

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Great reads from around the web on June 29th

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The details of the experiment were published in an article entitled “Experimental Evidence Of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks” published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

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