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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders. Our new and long-term Martus partners crossed a milestone and backed up to our public servers over 200,000 bulletins, each of which captures crucial, sensitive information about incidents from a victim’s story or from a field investigation. and the European Union.

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When Looking to Diversify Your Development Office, Widen Your Lens

Bloomerang

Just while writing this piece, I’ve received email newsletters from the African American Development Officers Network (AADO) and Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy (WOC). But I also wrote newsletters and annual reports, edited donor publications, produced promotional videos, hosted constituent events, and handled media relations.

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

Tech Soup

This week the revolutionary data driven philanthropy of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation is featured and a call for beneficiary inclusion in Markets for Good goes out. Data philanthropy efforts are reviewed and advice for writing about data is offered. Data and Philanthropy. Data Philanthropy: Where are we now.

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Research Friday: Human Capital Performance Bonds. What are they? How do they work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Calls for scaling have been amplified by the recent economic recession, which brought increased demand for social services coupled with shrinking government dollars. But a structural problem remains: philanthropy does not typically have available capital for scaling. HF 681, March 23, 2011). Every time Twin Cities Rises!

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Research Friday: Attention Philanthropy: The Good, the Bad, and the Road Ahead

ASU Lodestar Center

To celebrate my very first blog post, I decided to be brave: I will introduce an emgerging concept: “Attention Philanthropy” (AP). I define AP as philanthropy that is primarily concerned with getting donors and supporters to pay attention to a certain cause. in Public Administration from the University of Southern California.

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Research Friday: Social Impact Bonds: A New Tool for Scaling Impact

ASU Lodestar Center

This kind of phenomenon can be seen in a 2011 joint report from Social Finance, Inc. Social service and nonprofit programs have traditionally been supported through philanthropy and government contracts. The last five years has seen shrinking funds from both the government and philanthropic sectors due to a recession economy.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How to Start a Nonprofit Organization.

ASU Lodestar Center

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