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Celebrating Women in Tech: An Interview with Qgiv’s Female Leaders

Qgiv

Jess: Our core values at Qgiv foster an inclusive and highly collaborative environment, specifically our values of respect and openness. In addition, Qgiv promotes a flexible work environment to support a healthy work/life balance. The redesign was a product of so much feedback, research, data, collaboration, love, and sweat.

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How Can Nonprofits Make the Most of Overhead Funds?

ASU Lodestar Center

There are myriad options available to nonprofits that can help them to make the most of tight G&A budgets, and so it is important to find the best fit for their needs, culture, and environment. This action alone “…could be the best way to slow or even stop the cycle [of nonprofit starvation]” (Goggins-Gregory & Howard, 2009).

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Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Comes to London!

Amy Sample Ward

It is barcamp style, so come with your questions and topics you want to talk about; come meet lots of others interested in leveraging mobile technology for change and collaborate! In short, Mobile Tech 4 Social Change camp is: A one-day event in London on May 23, 2009 at Vodafone. More information is below - REGISTER here.

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A Free Agent for Hunger: Pittsburgh Tote Bag Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit. Sue Kerr has put her social media savvy to work to fight hunger in the Greater Pittsburgh area and save the environment.

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To Scale or Not to Scale: What Should Nonprofits Consider Before Deciding to Expand a Program for Greater Impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

For nonprofits seeking to expand their programs, careful analysis of self and environment are crucial. Keep in mind that many of the most complex and intractable social issues that nonprofits face can only be effectively addressed by collective impact, via collaboration among organizations or even across sectors. Who is involved?

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Oregon Foundation looking for a Million Dollar Idea

Amy Sample Ward

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He then spends some time making clear how the new networked environment makes peer distribution possible. Thanks for the comments!

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