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5 Fundraising Power Principles to End Your Year Strong

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Your organization will need to make a strong impression and deliver a clear articulation of how you carry out your mission. Many seasoned fundraisers and social impact professionals, such as Tyra Holloway, payroll specialist atthe Music Institute of Chicago, recommend sending out thank you notes as soon as possible.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.)

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

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This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. The project never gets "full" and is always open to new contributors. The collective outcome (a cool music video) is clear. He said: "Let's make a dynamic music video--and let's set up a tool so fans can help us do it."

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My Theory of Practice

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. Be Helpful.

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Creating a Culture of Storytelling Webinar Recap

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Helping staff articulate their stories and developing them might require storytelling training. To encourage library patrons to continue making content, Escondido Public Library trains library patrons using mostly free and open source software. User-generated content includes how-tos, interviews, and life stories.

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What software freedom means to me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I realize that I haven’t talked about this in a while, and I’m not sure I’ve actually ever articulated this completely on this blog. I could easily argue that for the overwhelming majority of places you need an operating system, the free and open source alternatives are better (if you count the BSD core of the Mac OS.

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Building Community with Digital Storytelling: Online Community Meetup Recap

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Doing this builds the trust required for your subject to open up. " Identify people who are genuine, outgoing, articulate, and lively/likeable. And consider details like music, which can heighten and enrich the emotions your story is trying to convey. Let your characters lead.