ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In looking at the problem from the perspective of smaller nonprofits serving high needs communities with growing multifaceted issues, sustainability becomes even more daunting. Answer the question – What community need am I responding to, and how does a social enterprise approach meet the need versus a traditionally funded program model?

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Social Model Nonprofit Fund 98

sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

Do the Homework : Oftentimes, nonprofits have to jump through countless hoops just to be invited to submit a proposal. Trust-based philanthropy moves the onus to grantmakers, making it the funder’s responsibility to get to know prospective grantees, saving nonprofits time in the early stages of the vetting process. It’s based in fear.

Philanthropy 71

Philanthropy Literacy Gift Grant 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Impact Challenge ” is based on Google’s belief that artificial intelligence can provide new solutions to old problems and improve people’s lives. At Google, we believe that AI can give us new ways of addressing problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. Does it require that applicants use Google AI tools ?

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Google Challenge Interview Impact 84

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Learning, we do naturally.

Knowledge 67

Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 67

Forj

JUNE 1, 2021

Understanding somebody’s situation really lends credence to your ability to helping them solve their problems,” said Conley. The whole model of these platforms has changed, in which there is a richer set of features available for configuration, as well as a new level of interoperability that allows users to do a lot more.

eLearning 36

eLearning Summary Podcast Management 36

Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

In the last six years, Community Boost_r , ReStart Challenges , and Things Camp have used an open community challenge model. These open challenges help activists, nonprofits, journalists, techies, and community members identify, refine, build, and launch technology tools to solve pressing local and regional problems.

Local 36

Local Challenge Romania Open 36

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Think about 5 things: what’s the problem, what technology you’ll use, design sustainability, how will people come to use it and how will you distribute it. Normal application processes are very good for people who are good at writing or following a system. Award a prize to those that show most potential.

Social 105

Social Grant Fund Model 105

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. ” You know, we’re going to talk a little bit about how SMART goals drive impact reporting processes. So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model?

Report 78

Report Measure Impact Process 78

Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2010

In their presentation, they talked about an old-school, but still widely held organizational structure at nonprofits, that includes silos, processes, and people all working toward trying to solve a common problem or reach a common goal.

Structure 49

Structure Nonprofit Proposal Social Network 49

Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

Here’s another problem you may encounter: Let’s say you can clearly define what you want to do with your campaign and why, so you jump into the planning process, skipping key steps like a feasibility study and prospect research and cultivation. Don’t underestimate the amount of time you’ll need.

Campaign 52

Campaign Phase Gift Studies 52

The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? I have used it to help me write appeals, emails, thank you letters, and draft some 1 and 2-page proposals. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai

Los Angeles 130

Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Regardless of whether it’s new technology, a new staffing model, or even a small adjustment to a process, adoption and success can hinge on keeping a focus on the human element of the change. Define the problem and the “why”. It’s important to understand where you want to go and where you find yourself currently.

Virtual 28

Virtual Blackbaud Award Wisconsin 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits.

ROI 74

ROI Social Media Media Measure 74

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

This is the first time the foundation has asked for broad and direct public input in its grants process. We’ve set a goal to make MMT a national model of a regional foundation,” Stamm said. Meyer Memorial Trust can’t solve Oregon’s problems, but we’re willing to step up and try to jumpstart us in a better direction.”.

Oregon 140

Oregon Foundation Ideas Award 140

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

But before we got there, we talked abit about the problem. They can’t build the schools and they can’t train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. Young people should enjoy the educational process. There’s still going to be assessments but hopefully better models. That’s teaching.

Game 132

Game Education Change Classroom 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and voting process. The panel picker process has opened – so you can vote for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program until August 27th. Trust me.

Comment 97

Comment Artist Social Media Hype 97

Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A quick glance makes it clear that the not-entirely-standard definitions of the diseases listed, and the data collection process implied (often a matter of guesswork and intuition), may introduce some uncertainty into the reliability of the data that results. OK, these are hard problems to solve.

Global 52

Global Data Seattle Finland 52

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This problem is compounded by nonprofits’ lack of investment in manager training, leaving nonprofit organizations unprepared for the inevitable succession of leadership (Koenig, 2016). Participating in drafting portions of grant proposals. This low promotion rate did not vary by nonprofit size. Joining meetings with funders.

Leadership 40

Leadership Develop Retention Phoenix 40

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. . We also need to remember we are only creating tools for people to use to help create solutions to their problems. .

Mobile 62

Mobile North America Mali Cameroon 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Creative solutions to complex problems. The players conduct a site visit to understand the problem from the point of view of people who use the street everyday. Complex problem dealing with state street. They use a model where they can change the zoning based on the issues they learned about.

Education 50

Education Mobile Game Exercise 50

Forum One

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Balancing structure with experimentation Looking ahead, we’re designing ways to put the right amount of structure around the process of experimentation. Clarifying decision rights, e.g., who has the authority to greenlight an experiment or implement a proposed change? hint: this shouldn’t just be people at the top).

Hints 85

Hints Structure Proposal Challenge 85

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

But before we got there, we talked a bit about the problem. They can't build the schools and they can't train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. Young people should enjoy the educational process. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM.

Game 60

Game Education Change Classroom 60

Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2008

Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control. There's a third way, a way modeled in huge tech companies trying to compete with young start-ups. There's more attention these days on the "from the top" model.

Museum 31

Museum Place Model Project 31

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. It was like getting paid to process the day in a lovely setting. Anna accepted my proposal.

Museum 52

Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. SL is not some new revolutionary model that has never been seen before. more preposterous than proposing an immersive MUVE communications revolution).

Environment 50

Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So I hope that you can kind of take some nuggets of information to kind of help you think through ways that you could be more responsive, build a better process related to grants. I like looking at the grants’ lifecycle because it really breaks down all the different components of what makes the grant process run smoothly. .

Grant 114

Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Guide the environment management plan and release strategies for projects, validating that the correct development environments, change controls, and deployment plans are in place.

Canada 40

Canada Data API Skills 40

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. We aren’t reaching all the audiences we’d like to. We’re not essential parts of every community.

Museum 20

Museum Conversation Columbus Local 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowdsourcing is defined broadly as: The process of organizing many people to participate in a joint project, often in small ways. Social media accelerates the crowdsourcing process – it can happen faster. The key is breaking down the tasks into bite-size pieces and engaging crowds in the process.

Measure 96

Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

So that requires a massive shift, and we're working towards building a more local economy in the Bay Area on a policy level by working to galvanize municipal response and developing models of localization that can be replicated by other regions. Now the strategy is to bring city officials and county officials into the process.

Green 40

Green Local Interview Oakland 40

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing. In handmade items, you don't have that same kind of model; you don't buy and sell a bushel of embroidered skirts. It doesn't work that way.

Gift 40

Gift Marketing Create Interview 40

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

They can feel really confusing and really burdensome, especially if you don’t have a game plan or a process in place. . When I say the grants lifecycle, I mean the whole process of finding, acquiring, and maintaining grants. Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database.

Grant 74

Grant Lesson Tips Video 74

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The 182-page book includes detailed descriptions of projects, budgets, and decision-making processes, along with extensive interviews with artists, curators, and museum staff of all stripes. As he put it (page 14): When people at an institution speak of a problem, it is often to indicate something that interferes with their operation.

Artist 39

Artist Museum Project Public 39

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Accounting / @nysscpa.

Calendar 177

Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. A pricing manifesto proposes that members of the community that can afford the software should support the project financially. People in developing countries will get further discounts.

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Darfur Sri Lanka Liberia Colombia 100

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So I’m going to share some tips with you all throughout to try to make this process painless and, most importantly, fun, kind of like these kids running these science experiments. I wrote this one just a month or two ago about what to do with unsolicited proposals. We want to be able to have fun with this stuff. No, no, no.

Grant 97

Grant Video Donor Foundation 97

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The program would commence with a registration process which would provide students with access to an online community which would provide age-appropriate resources for the students. This should lead to a new agile procurement and development process which would enable the more rapid development of solutions. Vote for this Idea].

Ideas 47

Ideas Share Disaster Government 47