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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community. How will you evaluate your results and measure impact?

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

We thought so, so we put together a short list of items we felt could trigger meaningful conversations just in time for end-of-year reflection and 2019 planning. . A tool that can help you evaluate the effectiveness of your program, it forces you to identify your desired outcomes. Takeaway #1: Think holistically about your program

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information. mental capacities.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. In the end, this generated a substandard product for the client, and disappointment for the teens.

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What color is the social web?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The participants were consultants who worked with nonprofits on organizational strategic planning, financial planning, evaluation, and other organizational capacity areas. Pew Study on Social Media and Teens: (See page 33). Last week, I did at workshop for the Kellogg Action Lab College of Consultants. Photo by MckaySavage.

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12 Ways We Made our Santa Cruz Collects Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. We tracked down as many people as we could and developed a big spreadsheet so we could evaluate the possibilities. There are three participatory elements in this gallery: What Kind of Collector Are You?

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

By understanding what individuals are highlighting about the Exploratorium experience, the museum can craft its own messaging--and programming--to reflect and enhance the elements seen as most valuable. How does it help the Exploratorium to listen to these environments if they can't be controlled?

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