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Client Spotlight: National Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Qgiv

In 2012, President Barack Obama named September National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. The National Pediatric Cancer Foundation (NPCF) works tirelessly to change that. The National Pediatric Cancer Foundation was formed in 1991 by Melissa Helms and Risa Tremel, two mothers who met at St.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models?

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Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” Call this “social change 2.0”.

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The Huddle Perpetual License

Tech Soup

One of the common characteristics of cloud-based services is the pay-by-month or pay-by-year model. TechSoup donor partner, Huddle , which is our cloud-based collaboration and content management donor partner has just broken that mold. Collaboration Is How Charities Function. It's our nature. What Does Huddle Do?

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How to make convenings count: a new hands-on guidebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It talks about how to use today’s tools to build a collaborative culture and using them to find ways for individuals and organizations to team up in building new solutions. In 2012, leaders at the Rockefeller Foundation posed that question to our team at Monitor Institute, kicking off a year and a half of research and analysis.

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Learning in Public: To What End?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And in this networked world where social change and social movements can be seeded overnight with a viral video on YouTube, such public collaboration on complex social issues can have multiple benefits. This learning model has served us well, and above all it has been safe and comfortable. And finally, the so what?

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The Capacity-Building Frontier(s)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Social media literacy and facility is a 21st century core capacity. (3) 5) There is reason to be hopeful.

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