Judi Sohn

JULY 30, 2011

At Fight Colorectal Cancer, we switched from web host email to Google Apps in 2007 and we haven’t looked back. From a nonprofit’s perspective, the hardest product for a nonprofit to get donated from Google has always been AdWords ( also known as Google Grants ). Guess which won? With good reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Grants are about taking it scale. Funded a project to work with state of Michigan - requirement for high school graduation is that all students have an online learning experience. Grantees - like Global Kids - found the right group to fund. They have been a leader. TakingITglobal is a grantee. Scaling is an important point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod. or “collective impact,” this work is characterized by a very different mindset, approach, and set of tools than traditional grant-making or nonprofit work, which has historically focused on supporting programs and organizations, and scaling those up. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open content business models December 1, 2007 I’m at the Open Translation event, and we’ve just had a great session on open content business models.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Actually, a client had a grant proposal, and it included the consultant’s “theory of practice&# which of course is something that most organizational development/effectiveness type consultants have, but rather few technology consultants have. What made you decide to write a theory of practice? 2 admin 07.11.08

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Sarah granted me permission to share her findings with the world. In September 2007 M:Metrics, a mobile advertising analysis firm, observed, "[W]hile the volume of SMS ads is lowest in the United States, with only 17.2 The information below was current as of December 15, 2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. More adoption means more developers involved, more users helping, more resources available.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Some of the donations will have twice the impact because of a matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “Companies have a new ability to empower their customers to be philanthropists, to open source their philanthropy and let their customers or employees participate as grant makers,&# he said. 264 on Ourmedia.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I even remember writing a grant to some federal agency that probably no longer exists to help create a local infrastructure to get nonprofits online. It was, at the time, the only affordable way to do it – there was no broadband, and a T1 was far outside of the realm of affordability for nonprofits. When was that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology More FUD from Redmond May 18, 2007 I hear, in my head, the famed quote from Rodney King: “why can’t we all just get along?&# It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. The assessment was conducted by Peter Levine, Peter Deitz and Cynthia Gibson. With nearly 5,000 applicants and more than 15,000 voters.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 10, 2005

At the same time as the patent office is granting business method patents that everyone knows have tons of prior art, they are busy rejecting trademarks, based on who knows what, exactly. Case in point: the organization " Dykes on Bikes " was denied a trademark of their name because the word "dyke" was vulgar.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

We also have a few major grants to continue working on this integration stuff, expanding it to include other complimentary services such as online advocacy and more. Jon Stahl – I never thought of applying for grants to get this project done. I’d love to see similar code released for Drupal. 10 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

The question reminded of a screencast I created back in 2007 for NTEN and Salesforce Foundation that covered Google Adwords campaigns). The demo also showed a new 3D map feature and how you can take a photo and have it return google search results. Here’s why folks were laughing in the background).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

At Omidyar Network there’s been an effort to write proposals for 9 $5,000 grants. Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 at 2:54 pm Just checking in to say how much I enjoy your blog. I found it through Beth’s Blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Most of the administrative problems are: 1) using an outdated versions, 2) using a module before it is “tried and true&# , 3) using the PHP/FullHTML input filters that specifically allows for dangerous output code, and 4) not correctly setting permissions for the file system and database grants. 4 Alexander Limi 04.04.09

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

In 2007 I started to transition away from consulting for a few clients at a time to more writing, online training, and public speaking, which lets me connect with thousands of nonprofits every year. We know storytelling is important for grant applications and fundraising appeals, how is it most useful in marketing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Since 1997, the Packard Foundation has awarded 1,392 “organizational effectiveness” grants to an array of groups, most of which have annual operating budgets of $1 to $10 million, and operate in the human services, environmental conservation, population, and arts fields. Essentially, the work was more transactional than transformational.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 21, 2009

2007 - America's Second Harvest (now Feeding America): Implemented the Choice System (CS), a web-based tool, which allows members to bid on specific product donations they wish to acquire and distribute to their community agencies. Past Technology Leadership Award Recipients. Past Technology Leadership Award Recipients.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare was one of the early recipients of a Google Grant of online advertising, which continues to this day. Bookshare has grown tremendously from the 3,000 students that we were serving in 2007. This summer, we will have three students working on Bookshare software for our users underwritten by Google’s Summer of Code program.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

When all was said and done, we received a 2005 seed-funding grant from Full Circle Fund and launched the Refurbished Computer Initiative program. And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. In the first couple of years we distributed around 100 PCs per month.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

When we received a grant from the Bernard Newcomb Foundation in 2007 to take Bookshare international, I asked Viji to become Bookshare’s International Program Coordinator. Even as a volunteer, Viji began bugging me about the need to expand Bookshare’s collection of accessible books and magazines to readers around the world.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

grant program to help nonprofits invest in wireless - San Antonio Business Journal:: "AT&T creates $1.5M grant program to help nonprofits invest in wireless San Antonio Business Journal - 12:11 PM CDT Wednesday, September 12, 2007 The AT&T Foundation, the philanthropic organization of AT&T Inc., AT&T creates $1.5M

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

it is particularly sad because its still virtually impossible to spend grant money on GNU/Linux support, people like to fund shiny hologram boxes. Because most people will only use what they are familiar with. your message will justify them. its like a path in the woods, the more people travel down it the easier the path gets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Every year over 7,800 grants are made in the U.S. Patricia Martin is an independent researcher and author of the book Renaissance Generation: The Rise of the Cultural Consumer and What it Means to Your Business , F + W Publishing, 2007. The results make me optimistic about scaling social good by leveraging information.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Twelve organizations focused on peace and human security are appealing to their constituents to vote early and often, in a bid to win the grand prize of a $100,000 grant from Ploughshares Fund.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When wildfires devastated the area around San Diego in October, 2007, citizen journalists used e-mail, text messages, and social media sites to collect and disseminate real-time information about the location of the fires, evacuation efforts, meeting places and emergency supplies. magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

and people start getting access to English language books in 2007. Groups in India start providing English language books for inclusion in Bookshare.org for global distribution, for those books that are freely distributable (especially textbooks from India) and those where permissions have been granted.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 25, 2017

For the vast majority of nonprofits, a large percent of their revenues come in the form of gifts and grants, which can be uncertain for many reasons. Since her retirement from the securities industry in 2007, Ms. While expenses such as payroll, rent and utilities may change little from year to year, revenues can be variable and risky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

of the C4All program is the Accessibility Grant. Following a competitive grant application. process in early spring 2007, CTCNet will award 14 organizations with $20,000. Accessibility Grants. step in preparing for the grant application process. enhance your CTC's capacity to serve people with a broad range of.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. Responses from NMI students and alumni reveal that 94% say NMI courses are relevant to their daily work.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

First launched in 2007, PIMCO’s original volunteer programming was limited, supporting 23 events across various business locations. Whether by leveraging employee match, deploying disaster assistance funds or investing in local non-profits through our local grants program, we leverage our resources to contribute to society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

program announcing their "grant contest" for local non-profit groups raising funds to positively impact their community in some way. Here's how it works: Every month through May 2007, Hamburger Helper will choose one 501(c)(4) organization for a monetary grant of up to $15,000. My Hometown Helper???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 12, 2022

Grants are an essential part of the nonprofit landscape, providing a significant percentage of the average nonprofit’s annual revenue. If you’re like most organizations, you depend on a mixture of grants, major gifts, sponsorships, and individual donations collected through fundraising campaigns and events. Grant Funding Sources.

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