ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day. This week’s installment of Research Friday looks at what the survey results tell us about nonprofit board engagement in tough times. nonprofit practice.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

From accountants to college students, from administrators working in construction offices to legal professionals, many are considering new career directions to gain more meaningful work and to serve the greater good in their communities. While securing my two university degrees, I conducted in-depth research.

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Candid

JUNE 14, 2023

Grant proposals take a lot of work. And nobody wants to see their proposal get discarded by a funder for something that could have been easily fixed. So, we asked you on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook: What red flags do funders look out for when reading a grant proposal? Did we miss a red flag?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

There are no courses in our public school systems that teach students how to use a. in Arizona, there is a bill being proposed that would mandate all students to receive some type of financial literacy education before graduating from high school. Most people never receive any formal financial training. We need to find a way to.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

As a rule of thumb, nonprofits should start preparing and building their year-end giving teams when students return to school for the fall semester, usually three to four months ahead of the campaign period. Describe how donors’ gifts will enable your nonprofit to help solve the proposed issue. Wrap it up with a call to action.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

Research shows only 19% of new donors give again, but if you can get them to make a second gift they’ll renew at a rate of 61% — that’s triple! If you’re a school, ask students to help. Alas, too often institutional donor research gets put on the back burner.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Research / @SSIReview. Finance / @southwestfdns.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

also has a list of ways you can help including: grant writing, website or graphic design, being an email pen pal, raising money on eBay, transcription or translation, research, database development or management, and copy editing. In her post, Be a Virtual Volunteer, Karama of the blog, So What Can I Do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Quentin Young, Founder, and Margie Schap, Executive Director Health & Medicine Policy Research Group.    Karin posted some snippets of conversation on the Health & Medicine Policy Research Blog that I'm sharing here.   The depression was raging. That is where they are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). OK, these are hard problems to solve.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library. Let’s look at an example from Fiver: Once upon a time, there were students in New York. Because of that, students know it’s ok to be different.

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Guide Giving Campaign Social Media 73

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

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Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

Brattleboro, Vermont: Storytelling for Grant Proposals with Barbara Ganley. Kibiribiri, Uganda: Building Capacities of Teachers and Students in Digital Storytelling. Research Triangle, North Carolina: What You Should Know from 16NTC. Building Capacities of Teachers and Students in Digital Storytelling. Thursday, April 21.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Research / @SSIReview. Research / @ARNOVA.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

You must commit to prospect research. So let’s go on this major donor journey starting with prospect research. There are lots of prospect research software available. Secondly, a commitment to professional development. Here are four commitments you must make in order to successfully implement a major donor program.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Over the past few months, I've been doing research for a forthcoming book on relevance. Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figuero - Claiming Space for Brown Women in the Digital Museum Landscape Based in Washington DC, Brown Girls Museum Blog is a new-ish site led by graduate students Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figueroa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

So how do we propose to pay for it? In January, NMC released The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education. The media here IS the service. Deborah Finn throws in her two cents here.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Annual Conference for Development Researchers.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I wish I had time to watch all the videos and code them for their content and style, but I don't (graduate research project, anyone?). I appreciated this engineer's experience and this student's experiment , but many of the scientist/educator videos were painfully pedantic , goofy , or even a little creepy (and yes, women can be creepy too ).

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

And Phil Zimbardo is going to speak about his book, The Lucifer Effect , which showed how he had an experiment where he put a few students of his from Stanford in prison and a few people, in the same class, in as prison guards, and then it showed how immediately they turned bad because of how power can corrupt people. Social change?

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Net Impact Conference is the premier gathering of students and professionals who are committed to making a lasting social and environmental impact now and for a lifetime. More than 750 researchers, teachers and leaders from the field gather at the Annual Conference. Research / @ARNOVA. State/Local. 11/16/2016. Nov 16 - 19.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Research by Teach the Future found that 77% of students say thinking about climate change makes them anxious. Climate-related anxiety has been given a name, “eco-anxiety,” and it’s not limited to students or young people in general. Propose that climate becomes a risk in your board risk register.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Or do any real research.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served. “We are serving X number of students right now.” Grant proposals.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 29, 2021

So to figure that out, you’d start with a market study proving there are people living around and driving by the proposed donut shop who would want to buy donuts. Many funders use these Form 990s to research organizations that are requesting support.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I spent a lot of research time learning how designers in related fields solve the problems we had developing Operation Spy: how screenwriters craft plot twists, how game designers build instructions into the game, how theme park designers deliver consistent, high-impact multi-sensory experiences. I want museums to be like the Web.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Since you’ve already done your research and determined that your organization is grants-ready , you should be confident you’re a good candidate for this grant. When Alyssa Jones, a student at City Community College, must choose between eating breakfast and paying the rent, she skips breakfast.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

Maybe your food bank is working on a special program to send meals home with students over a holiday break, for children who might not have any other way to get food when school is closed. When you have an urgent need, a fantastic opportunity, or a funding gap, major donors can fund that need FAST for you!

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So when you do your research on funders, you have to make sure it’s a good match for you. I’m going to have to research this. So first of all, if you want to do this research, go to any foundation you’re interested in, hop on their IRS Form 990, which is their tax return. That’s a whole different webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Or do any real research.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The Department of State should develop a Young Diplomats Program which would provide students with the opportunity to advance their understanding of the core topics and issues relevant to the foreign service. The program would run for the entire academic school year and rely on long-term engagement with students. Vote for this Idea].

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

By far the most educational stories in the book concern the Phoenix Group, a housing/economic development non-profit that imploded over the course of Light's research. There should be an entire book about innovative failures. CEOs of innovating organizations are not grandiose heroes; they are visionary structuralists.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2017

Usually, this is for general use by the charity but may be restricted by the donor for a particular use, such as student scholarships or biomedical research. and proposed gifts with property where a capital loss exists should be dealt with differently than those with a capital gain.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

It was an incredible testament to the commitment and dedication of the nonprofit sector to put words to action - identifying needs and proposing concrete solutions. Stones Worldview Tango - Richard Cirille Empowering learning for students world wide. Everywhere - Emilie Valentine Moving away from IT being a stand-alone department.

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