Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to Jitasa , you can use the information you glean from financial reports for: Data-driven decision-making. NPOInfo’s guide to nonprofit data collection explains that this information “allows nonprofits to assess cash flow, maintain financial stability, and strategize budgets for future fundraising efforts.”

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Candid

MAY 31, 2023

Discover what it means to become a true leader in this New York Times bestseller. When it comes to making a difference in your life, this read will leave you feeling inspired and ready to tackle the issues you care about. The post 16 free nonprofit books for your summer reading list appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

As a community organizer and network weaver myself, I am incredibly excited by the #OccupyWallStreet movement that started in New York just over three months ago now (on September 17th) in response to a failing federal economy and political process that impact local, national, and international markets. Online Homebase.

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

However, there’s also a growing focus on resilience initiatives and engagement with long-term conservation and risk reduction projects that include accelerating the use of data and technology to better inform communities of risk; conserving land to prevent overdevelopment; and more effectively managing vulnerable ecosystems.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Once you’ve determined if your website needs to be reexamined, review the best nonprofit websites available once more, using their design as inspiration for your new and improved website. They see the information about a gala event that your organization is hosting at the local aquarium. Contact information.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In this second blog in a two-part series, we share key facts and figures about U.S. California and New York have the most unions in the dataset, with 3,790 and 3,777 organizations respectively. Most unions are fairly small, and detailed financial information is often not available for these organizations. Financial data.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2021

In this blog, I share what Candid’s data tells us about philanthropic trends for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in general and in reaction to recent anti-Asian hate crimes specifically as well as what to look for in the future. The context of anti-Asian hate. As a Chinese American, I can attest that this hate is palpable.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Gerardo Capiel, Benetech's VP, Engineering One of the highlights of my meeting circuit each year is the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York City. There is no better place to engage with colleagues about new technologies, changing business models, fresh ideas, and shared standards.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I normally separate my post-presentation blog posts and slides but think it will be valuable to group them together this time. Just because everyone in New York, the US and the world can subscribe to the New York Times, does not mean that the world is the community. Defining Community. Engaging Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

From hearing impairment to colorblindness, these disabilities affect the way people receive and process information. Some people with dyslexia rotate characters as they read them, so an f can easily look like a t —the right typeface will help avoid those issues.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2009

I have a new blog post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. In a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times , David Brooks compared the global response vs localized response to the outbreak. Check it out here! The “Swine Flu” scare was fun, wasn’t it? Power to the People.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 11, 2014

By now you've probably heard of a massive IT issue that could potentially affect millions of Internet users. Unlike many other bugs found daily by security experts, this quickly gained traction in mainstream media like The New York Times , NPR , even CNN. It could affect the majority of websites that begin with "https."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Today, the Guardian Technology blog speculated that the reason why the Wikileaks iPhone app was pulled from the iTunes story was because the $1.95 Let’s unpack this … This is a nuanced issue. GuideStar is the premier source of vetting nonprofit information. fee for the app was a donation to the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

I have many years of blog content. It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories (over 200) and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. No wonder I get emails and DM's from folks telling me they can't find a particular blog post. That's a river of blog resources, why add to it? Information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Note from Beth: Last June at the New York City book party for the Networked Nonprofit , Stephanie Strom, New York Times, moderated a discussion on the themes in the book. It ensures that all kinds of information and all people are treated equally, without special pleading or payments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

As a long time reader of Beth’s blog, I am very excited by the release of Beth’s new book, Measuring the Networked Non-Profit. One of the important issues she raises is “how do you balance a personal brand and an organizational brand to best serve its strategic goals?” He agreed to riff on the idea and write this useful post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

On January 30th, I’m speaking at the Social Media for Nonprofits in New York City. The practice of curation is being able to sift through daily whirlwind of tweets, blog posts, and other content streams quickly in order to pick the right pieces that create an accurate view of the subject matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Their team also leads attention campaigns, informed by data and inspired by online conversations. Listening beyond a brand, a program or a campaign. Even better, we discovered that we can use this practice to both inform and measure campaigns. 1 Big Listening is the Future of Issue Communications.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the complete issue on "Collaboration" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] Everyone also steps up to take on responsibility, and to take on the more difficult task of discussing process issues.”

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

You can read the post and participation in the conversation on the SSIR blog here! As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. My newest post is now up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know « Nonprofit Communications: Duck Call Blog - I really love the highlights Farra shares from the “Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know" panel she attended yesterday as part of #baruchnp, at Baruch College in New York.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

One cool project that came out of a RHoK event is InfoPlace Kenya , an Android application for information and directions of essential places in Kenya like hospitals, tourists attractions, restaurants, educational facilities, and more. The hackathons are themed around a certain issue, such as education or mHealth (mobile health).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

For context, see the event announcement and today's New York Times article. " He said that MacArthur hopes to make investments to help nonprofits and civil society organizations address serious issues. Can you talk about security and pornography issues? Linden: You mentioned pornography.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Sean Stannard-Stockton has just posted my guest post on the Tactical Philanthropy blog. You can read it and the comments on the blog here , it’s copied below. to which New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom tweeted back “No kidding.”. The transparency issue is a steep mountain to climb with social media.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. The recent series of events, from Ferguson to Cleveland and New York, have created a watershed moment. Are staff members talking about Ferguson and the deeper issues it raises?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Fluency in social technology is a complex issue but there are three key elements. This should include a daily diet of blog posts from industry leaders, a study of best practices and case studies, and a curiosity about how for-profit brands are using social media in ways that you can also leverage.

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Profit Los Angeles Social Storytelling 120

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 19, 2012

What specific information is being requested about the program? For smaller organizations, grant collaboration may simply mean that the grant writer will inform the proper staff members of a grant opportunity via email and then seek additional information as needed. What forms need to be completed?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. " That's why Charity Navigator has joined with GuideStar and the BBB Wise Giving Alliance to issue another open letter addressing this important topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2009

  I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts for 12 years on a range of arts and technology programs, including a network for artists called Arts Wire.   I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts for 12 years on a range of arts and technology programs, including a network for artists called Arts Wire.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 17, 2014

So instead of just sharing that there’s been an increase in traffic to a promoted project page or blog post, say that we’ve seen an uptick in traffic that is directly coming from Facebook. Once you have this information, you’ll be better equipped to determine how your board can help support your social media initiatives.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. " That's why Charity Navigator has joined with GuideStar and the BBB Wise Giving Alliance to issue another open letter addressing this important topic.

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Social Measure Charity Problem 55

Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Determine next steps you’ll take in case a remote guest speaker doesn’t show up, or has internet issues. This contains things like technical information, event details and schedule, general tips, and team contact info. Create a “run of show” document that you will send to each remote guest speaker.

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See3

JANUARY 24, 2008

Their trouble is connected to the media fragmentation that I so frequently talk about and the rise of the web as a source for news. David Carr in the New York Times suggests that The Wire is placing too much of the blame for the failures in the newsroom on the management staff that has to make them. One is called Outside.In

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

You may be wondering if that means that your executive director and CEO needs to write a blog or have their own Twitter account to share their wisdom. There is also the issue of comfort - both with the technology and being transparent. You can regularly see him discussing issues on Twitter with other thought leaders and journalists.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 9, 2005

I've got a lot of trips planned for the next few months, and sometimes these blogs lead to people getting in touch with me about ideas for action! It's an interesting and high powered group, and I'm looking forward to talking about Security and Privacy of Information. Early December, I'm starting to plan a trip to New York.

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