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NTEN Communications Roundtable December 2010

Amy Sample Ward

Date : December 7th, 2010. Movement building, campaigning, and scaling programs and services across regions, borders, and countries is incredibly important to making lasting social impact. Location : Phone & online chat. Topic : Questions, conversation and ideas about communications for nonprofits.

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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

As hand-held mobile devises connected to the internet spread to cities, villages, remote communities around the world, we need to continue finding ways to use these tools to make a positive impact. This past Sunday was October 10th, 2010 – also know as 101010, the Global Work Day for climate action supported by 350.org

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New on SSIR: How does celebrity impact your fundraising?

Amy Sample Ward

Online fundraising revenue grew overall by 14% between 2009 and 2010. In looking at TV ads, The 2010 Celebrity Advertisements: Exposing a Myth of Advertising Effectiveness , report showed less than 12% of ads using celebrities exceeded a 10% lift, and one-fifth of celebrity ads had a negative impact on consumers.

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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

As nonprofit professionals, we all want to impact the greatest possible number with our work. Today, there may be no idea with greater currency in the social sector than ‘scaling what works’” (Bradach, 2010, p. Interventions seeking to “go to scale” must also have support from stakeholders, with buy-in by all involved (Harris, 2010).

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The 12th Issue of NTEN: Change is Out - "Outcomes & Impact"

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The true test of any nonprofit is to demonstrate impact. Every nonprofit aims to have impact, but few have the systems in place to calculate little more than outputs. Much of 2010 was focused on Project Cultivar, which worked in the Dominican Republic sugarcane plantations and its company towns, bateyes.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2010, we gave nearly $300 billion in support of a wide variety of charitable causes—3.8 The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4

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What Best Practices Exist in the Nonprofit Sector to Improve Operational Effectiveness and Achieve Greater Impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Stakeholders should be asking how do we identify effective practices throughout the organization and how do we improve organizational effectiveness to achieve greater impact? What is considered effective should advance the organizations mission and goals to achieve greater impact.