Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City. Check out more highlights from the Festival program here.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Therefore, other factors such as program performance, governance structure, staff professionalism, fundraising efficiency, and other practices should be considered as part of the bigger picture. The truth is, it takes human resources, or employee salaries, to run most programs and make an impact. Recommendations for Implementation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. Make sure that you good internal system for sharing any updates that might come in through fundraising office or other school connections.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2013

Nonprofit Finance Fund’s (NFF) 2013 State of the Sector survey explored a variety of financial and management challenges facing organizations across the country. The core story, as told by nearly 6,000 respondents, is of a fragile balancing act between rising community need and shrinking or stagnant resources for social programs.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Curious about their model, I reached out to Dennis Woerner , the director of marketing for the Indianapolis Zoo, and asked him to talk to tell me more about their pricing system. According to Woerner, the decision to move to a dynamic pricing model was years in the making. They began to build a dynamic ticketing model.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

" This is an emerging economic paradigm that promotes systems that help eradicate waste not just from manufacturing processes, but also throughout the life cycle of products and their components. ADB supplies French charities with low-cost refurbished hardware and software product donations through its TechSoup Solidatech Program.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

" From Peer Mentor to Program Manager. "BITS programs are youth driven; this is the best way to truly engage with youth," says Program Manager Veronika Kvon. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013. After mentoring 10 youth, Veronika was promoted to program manager.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

" From Peer Mentor to Program Manager. "BITS programs are youth driven; this is the best way to truly engage with youth," says Program Manager Veronika Kvon. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013. After mentoring 10 youth, Veronika was promoted to program manager.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

PC Rebuilders and Recyclers (PCRR) is our newest RCI refurbishment partner and is now providing enhanced tech support to our program. I'll explain more on that below, but here's some background on the RCI program. All of our RCI-refurbished PCs come with the Windows 7 operating system, and all come with Office 2007.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

When all was said and done, we received a 2005 seed-funding grant from Full Circle Fund and launched the Refurbished Computer Initiative program. And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. Redemtech has been with us since the beginning of the RCI program.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Business lines are inclusive of everything your organization does, not just your programs or services. The book offers suggestions such as alignment with mission, excellence in delivery, meeting an unduplicated need, and building community, but each organization will need to determine its own factors and rating system.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2015

Two of the drones the company is using, the SkyRanger and Scout models, can identify people trapped or injured by using thermal cameras. Funded by the Department of Homeland Security, this project is a 12-week program, which started June 8, for six start-ups ending with a demo day hosted by partner Wearable World in San Francisco.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

I once consulted with a museum that had no museum--no building, no public programs, no exhibitions. When Detroit was going bankrupt in 2013, the city's emergency manager fought to sell off some of the prized artworks in the Detroit Institute of Art. Food banks have an auction-based model.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. Since then the Clinton Foundation has quietly been working on a sustainable infrastructure model for the country.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2017

posted by Jessica Cruz SSVF Program Coordinator, UMOM New Day Center. All sectors needed to consider what steps were essential to prevent the families in the defunded housing programs from becoming homeless again. In conjunction, knowledge of why systems approach can be necessary to provide universal cohesive services.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. FreedomPop, however, plans to add additional phones to this program later. The Internet of Things is one of those items on my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. It turns out that very thing has arrived.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 3, 2018

Aid programs may be necessary to benefit the individuals currently in poverty, but it does not provide a lasting solution (Dees, 2008). Understanding how a nonprofit leader can catalyze and guide systemic development to foster collaboration may lead to creating effective change on a greater scale. Shore, Hammond, Celep, 2013).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The other axis represents systems change: does the world work better and differently now as a result of these efforts? They put most nonprofits in the direct action without systems change box: groups that do a good (or even excellent) job of delivering services under the existing system. The authors present a two-by-two matrix.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Windows 8 is such a big change to Microsoft's operating systems (OS) I thought it might be useful to have a look a their plans for the types of devices that will use it and also their longer-range plans. The current $500 Surface launch model runs on a version of Windows 8 called Windows RT. Read our Windows 8 posts. All-in-Ones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Ideally, your nonprofit’s CMS (content management system) has been updated to include responsive design , but the problematic reality is that most CMS services commonly used in the nonprofit sector are as behind on the Mobile Web as the nonprofits are themselves. A mobile website should not be modeled after your desktop site.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The Campaign of the Year Award highlights a specific campaign that utilizes an integrated model for technology-supported outreach, communications, and action. In 2013, CFA tackled a range of community problems through technology while keeping people and users at the center. We were thrilled to give this award to TeenSource.org.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 5, 2014

For the fourth article in our nonprofit culture series, we interviewed Eric Angel of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia —DC’s oldest and largest general civil legal services program. The Legal Aid Society was named one of the NonProfit Times Best Places to Work for 2013. People Make Mistakes—Move on and Learn from It.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 2, 2017

When the federal government changed the rules for grant management at the end of 2013, there was a little noticed change that occurred. Internal controls for nonprofits moved from a finance concept wrapped around the annual audit to an administrative requirement involving the direct program staff, finance, and management.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

For a refresher, my 2013 piece Non-Technology Trends for the CIO and a 2011 white paper for the Association of Fundraising Professionals on similar topics may be good places to start and worth a read as well.). Internal efficiency: Many nonprofits have legacy processes, outdated systems, or just “the old way of doing things.”

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The plan is to build 11,000 “Solara 60″ model drones that are capable of providing satellite Internet to places on earth without Internet connectivity starting with Africa. Proceeds went to the nonprofit, After-School All-Stars , which funds after-school fitness programs for kids. TechCrunch. This 25 th. The Big Picture.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

You can dual-boot the two operating systems and switch between them by pressing a button. For those of us who work in tandem with our smartphones, PCs with hybrid operating systems is an exciting development. As more nonprofit offices support Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, the need for hybrid systems will increase.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

8 Uber’s and Lyft’s rideshare systems require drivers to log on to the systems through facial verification software, but the current verification software used by these companies is well-known for its difficulties in accurately identifying the faces of people of color. 9</sup).

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