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More thoughts about Web 2.0 Adoption by Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and nonprofit adoption. There was almost universal frustration voiced about using outside technology consultants. local governments for their activism. Jeremiah Owyang lay out a set of social media adoption questions that corporations ask: 2005: What is Social Media? 2009: How do I integrate across the Enterprise.

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Research Friday: Lessons in board governance

ASU Lodestar Center

Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies. One large local organization that has made tremendous strides in their governance is the Arizona Sports Foundation, which operates the Fiesta and Buffalo Wild Wings bowl games. Increased accountability and self-assessment.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? However, the impact of the “Great Recession” in 2009 and 2010 left its founders with dwindling funds.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

of me, but what I really want is something powerful that just works locally. Without getting into Google’s plan for world domination, what would help there is to see more universal adoption of OpenID[2]. [0] Feel free to make a technologically accurate version of that sentence.) but it won’t talk to mailmerge files.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

In 2009, The Academy Award winning film The Cove used the activism platform to create one of the most successful causes , bringing together over 1 million people to end the dolphin slaughter in Japan. Nearly 100 years later, in 2009, they became the “official sponsor of birthdays,” launching a movement for more birthdays.

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22 Years Ago…

Tech Soup

It is universally perceived as grim stuff. Microsoft saw that it could reach more nonprofits with more software and the support to adopt it by partnering with us, and at the same time could build the capacity of the nonprofit sector. " In 2009, Ben-Horin received the "Lifetime Achievement. expensive then).

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[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

And when I started in fundraising 12 years ago, we talked a lot about how we could get millennials or in my case, it was young alumni to give back to our university where I was fundraising for. So it was pushed out in 2009. So I’m admittedly a millennial. They learned to use them in high school. Almost nobody knew about it.

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