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A Free Agent for Hunger: Pittsburgh Tote Bag Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Those that have opened themselves up to using these tools and connecting with passionate people in their networks find abundance. 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.

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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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Guest Post: Celebrating Beth’s Five Years As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The job of figuring it out within the Packard Foundation fell to the Organizational Effectiveness (OE) program , which works closely with our grantees to strengthen their ability to adapt and thrive in complex environments. Thanks to Beth, we all crawled…or maybe we inched into using tech strategies and tools. Then we walked.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

NTEN

The people in these organizations know how to communicate and collaborate, and much of this interaction is conducted face-to-face. Look for mobile providers to combine these ideas to enable a virtual meeting environment with video, audio, whiteboard, and presentations from multiple attendees. We Need to Have a Meeting!

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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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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. We are also doing far more to spread the word about technology for rights activists, often in close collaboration with major partners in the human rights field such as Human Rights Watch and WITNESS.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, May 8-14

Tech Soup

Meanwhile, Connecting Up 2009 is going on in Sydney. Jim suggests some ways in which online collaboration can spare both your travel budget and the environment. From the TechSoup vault: Eight Tools to Keep Your Team Connected and A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups. TechSoup Blog.

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