Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter. This learning model has served us well, and above all it has been safe and comfortable. Learning in Public – Guest post by Victoria Dunning. Learning in Public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report. This year, the rise of big data was the subject of discussions across many disciplines, including the nonprofit sector. The State of Learning Analytics in 2012: A Review and Future Challenges. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. For nearly 50 years, the Federal Poverty Limit (FPL) has been the standard measure used by governments and nonprofit organizations serving low income individuals and families to determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs. As part of a.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Some funders and donors started to ask how much of the sector’s perceived inability to achieve scale or impact is due to funders believing it is about them – their theory of change, their strategy, and their definition (and measurement) of outcomes? Doing More by Doing Less – guest post by David Greco.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is from the September 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. It’s very important to involve your IT staff in discussions about measurement and impact, even if you think they might not have anything to contribute. This is a regular series in the nonprofit leadership journal. Welcome back to “Confessions.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Publishers provide more than 80% of the thousands of books added each month to the virtual bookshelves of our online Bookshare library, under voluntary permission agreements modeled after the Chafee Amendment. It wasn’t legal for him to distribute those books to other people who are blind, but it was for Bookshare to do so using Section 121.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. “I One such model is the Social Impact Bond (SIB). Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D. Welcome to Research Friday ! The Role of Evaluation. Like this article?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In this blog post, I want to discuss two big themes from chapter 1 of the book. What they actually did was far more mundane – the same type of modeling and segmentation that the Obama campaign deployed in 2008 and 2012. The first theme focuses on the interaction between advocacy tactics and the broader media environment.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. There are skilled tradespeople in every country we serve, and local talent makes our model far more sustainable. (As When we let this discussion unfold, it simply reframed how we looked at “internal” or “proprietary” data.

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APRIL 1, 2016

We dove deep into data from the 2012 presidential race to provide fundraising insight you can use during the 2016 election year, including: The charitable giving habits of 400,000 political donors. How they were changed by the 2012 election cycle. As with social impact, moving to a results-focused giving model doesn’t happen overnight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

” After spending five years living and breathing networks and measurement and designing and delivering many, many nonprofit capacity building programs, my focus is going to be on how nonprofits can apply measurement and their networks to learn for impact. Kyle Rush, Author and Technology Consultant.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

[Editorial note: the following article first appeared in the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , a free quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders.] That’s the complicated part of social change - complicated problems call for complicated solutions, even when our business models force us to focus on one simple arena. Did we succeed?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

For example, ND-Burma’s May 2012 report, “ Extreme Measures ,” sheds light on torture and ill treatment in Burma since the 2010 elections, demonstrating that the Burmese government continues to commit abuses despite its being bound to international human rights treaties and norms.

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