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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

Almost all of this was given to causes within the United States. The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

A couple of weeks ago, we announced our first cohort on Zero Hunger, focusing on food insecurity in the United States. He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Mia Blakstad.

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Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. This growing field of “civic tech” is aiming to harness technology to spur citizen engagement, improve cities and make government more effective.

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Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders. We encourage you to read the full report or executive summary here ; full citations are available for all data. billion to $4.8 Bridging the Gaps.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. That’s the group the Skoll Foundation wants to invest in: social entrepreneurs driving large-scale change. The authors present a two-by-two matrix.

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Overhead: Time to Pull Our Heads Out of the Sand?

Connection Cafe

In terms of external actions, five options were selected most frequently: protest/petition/testify; join others to protest; urge advocacy groups to apply pressure; encourage donors to sign a petition or call government representatives; and use media to call attention to issue. Summary of Findings.

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Open Government: A Recap of TransparencyCamp - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « New Study: The Power of the Premium: Convincing Prospective Donors to Give | Main | 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO » Friday Mar 13 2009 Open Government: A Recap of TransparencyCamp Friday, March 13, 2009 at 12:32AM | by Tracy Viselli "We have brought the techies and the policy wonks together, and they arent that different."