ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 25, 2021

In the spring of 2020, as COVID-19 and the uncertainty of how to react spread across the United States and Canada, people holed up in their houses and apartments. Students gravitated to online classes. Using such tools, especially when they are new, can be scary. Restaurants shut down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. There were a handful who were using LinkedIn and Twitter as professional networking tools.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention is a “call to action that is intended to guide suicide prevention actions in the United States over the next decade.” The foundation’s mission is to help people like Amber through their educational programs for students, parents, teachers, staff, and community members.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

my recommendations are highly affected by my location, my work experience, and limited to those tools and resources that I am well familiar with, but I hope your NGO finds the information useful. In the United States this is called fiscal sponsorship. Of course, being based in the U.S., 2) Launch an e-newsletter.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This week, our members are releasing new fundraising tools, hosting workshops, and even awarding grants. I mentioned a few weeks back that Causes was releasing new fundraising tools for their platform. Well, the details of those applications are now available – and include integration with Facebook’s Timeline! Anything we missed?

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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. GPA chapters are located across the United States.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University. As most adults in the United States know, Equifax is one of the largest three credit bureaus.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. students) with a collection of 220,000+ (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest library of its kind. In the U.S.,

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

Last week, I had the good fortune to speak with some great organizations doing historic preservation work in the Western United States. On the one hand, it's an extremely level playing field: social media tools require very little outlay of cash to use, so even small organizations can have big impacts. What should we focus on?"

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

But such educational opportunities are “often highly selective, and many barriers exist for students of color to both prepare for and access these programs,” the founders add. Both nonprofits are using tech to help students of color gain access to educational resources, readying them for high-paying careers.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

By providing tools and support for people with ideas, the group hopes to empower Americans to change the world, one project at a time. Fundraiser and blogger Chuck English asserted that a tagline is nothing but a tool, and that approaching it otherwise diverts organizations from the critical work of strategy.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2010

As the fiscal positions of states and municipalities across the United States deteriorate due to deficits and budget shortfalls, school districts and educational funding are often the first casualties. McKinley Elementary is a K-5 public school with about 300 students in the Duboce Park district of San Francisco.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I would say that we made the best use that we could of the tools that we had,” she said, “but I’d say about 10% of our volunteers are not tech savvy and so they got left behind.”. We held 33 virtual focus groups (via Zoom) with 181 CVAs in the United States and Canada. Talking with Volunteer Administrators.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

Earlier this year, President Obama announced a bold initiative to expand access to technology jobs in the United States. " Year Up therefore takes a holistic approach to preparing its students for the workforce. Students also learn about teamwork, time management, conflict resolution, and work/life balance.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 22, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. million nonprofits in the United States. Without internal expertise and real-time financial tools (such as cash flow reports or program profitability assessment), data-driven decision making is just not possible.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. You can design your own t-shirt with Teespring's online tool or you can work with one of the company's consultants.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Even better, nonprofits are giving back to the web analytics community because our experienced analysts work directly with “student learners” so that they can gain valuable “hands on” interaction with web data. . I learned a lot, and have some new information and tools that I’m excited about using to help us get better data about our site.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

My favorite historian, Peter Dobkin Hall , wrote a defining essay in one of his books that describes the "invention" of the nonprofit sector in the United States. Google Labs has a cool tool where you can map usage of words in published materials. Look at it this way. In a recent chapter on the history of the U.S.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. Recruiting applicants to a fellowship program. Trail-blazing Road Warriors.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. You can design your own t-shirt with Teespring's online tool or you can work with one of the company's consultants.

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2011

Is the use of prospect research becoming more mainstream or still just a tool for large nonprofits? Ironically, the very profusion of inexpensive or free research tools makes professional prospect research more important than ever. Follow Jay on Twitter at @gordonjayfrost or reach him by email at jay@fundraisinginfo.com. Completely!

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

After being a part of the giving day team for two successful campaigns at a college in the United Stated and running a giving day for a large university in Australia, I have seen the impact they can have if properly planned and executed. At universities, the on-campus events are generally focused on students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

While I was in college, I moved to the United States, got married and had three daughters. Since then Langwitches Blog has turned into a Professional Development tool for me as well as for other foreign language educators. I enjoy sitting down with my girls and teach them about the tools that I am experimenting with.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, which funds this magazine as well as eye research programs at universities across the United States. Benetech melds the mission and heart of social activism with the powerful methods and tools of the technology community. She wrote, "Please consider Carrie Karnos for this award.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition. But the tools are just a means to an end. With the monumental problems facing the United States at home and abroad, it would be tempting to put the conflict in Darfur on the back burner and just maintain the status quo of "managing" the crisis. Darfur Voices. GI-NET's Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

This includes some of the most basic student essentials. To date, they’ve launched over 100,000 “Boosters” and raised over $13 million for causes across the United States. Online tools like Causecast are exploding in popularity,” said Chris. Just very minimal stuff,” said one Mississippi teacher.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

Nonprofits make up 10% of the workforce, making them the third-largest workforce in the United States. a well-wishes email, helpful tools, special events, etc.)? How do we prepare for the tsunami of students who want to go into this as a profession? Nonprofit work is essential in this country.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The difference is that the social entrepreneur pursues change at scale primarily as a tool for social justice, not private enrichment. We provided a tool that blind individuals could use to scan and read their own books independently. The Arkenstone reading tools became a key mode of independent access to books.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Over 179,000 nonprofits utilize Facebook Causes but just how sticky is Facebook?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

While this seems like a “natural” question, it actually goes beyond a desire to track housing unit type. This question was set within a United States value context affirmed after WWII and with the GI bill whereby homeownership was solidified into an ideal of the American dream. This is where history comes in.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

Don't get me wrong, there are extremely sad and depressing stories in here, but mostly it is a book that shares Cheadle and Prendergast's, "Two Paths Out of Apathy," inspiring citizen activist success stories, and tools and information to help you take action. I particularly appreciated the historical background on the situation.

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Givinga

JANUARY 22, 2019

That’s becoming easier as more tools empower small- and medium-sized companies (such as those with 5-500 employees) to compete with big business giving efforts without exhausting their resources. Corporate giving platforms are responding to the demand for metrics with features and measurement tools that connect directly to business results.

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Double the Donation

MARCH 23, 2021

Although 15-19 million individuals in the United States are eligible for matching gift programs, $4-7 billion in matching gift revenue goes unclaimed each year. More than 2,500 institutions in nearly 50 countries rely on Ellucian to enhance operations and enrich the student experience for over 18 million students.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

million nonprofits in the United States and you think about the number of new nonprofits over the last 15 years, 200,000 give or take new nonprofits. They moved to a transitional campus, and they began to add students and kind of expand their services to those students. They’re meeting a need in the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Nonprofit Leadership, Innovation and Change: Christopher Scott is a nonprofit leader who founded A Day of Hope , a student based organization that delivers baskets of food and turkeys to families for Thanksgiving. Nonprofit Leadership Blog 101 written by Heather is one of the best that talks about leadership and nonprofits.

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