Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

The FCC just did a series of four blog posts asking for feedback on their new accessibility plans. Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals.

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M+R

APRIL 13, 2023

Enter: Planned Parenthood’s National Volunteer Program (NVP)! NVP focused on investing in and developing volunteers into leaders to keep momentum going around winning back abortion access. Sarika brings expertise around volunteer leadership development through the context of national organizing.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Transparency is lacking GA4 relies on modeling in some cases, meaning in some cases they’re looking at similar behavior among users with shared characteristics, and making an estimate that if one user took an action, a similar user did too. GA4 helps users get quick access to a useful report. GA4 is built with a different approach.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

However, access to justice for people with low and moderate incomes has been a long-standing issue facing vulnerable communities. Based on the success of this model and with the impetus of the COVID-19 crisis, CARPLS created and partnered with New Leaf Illinois , a statewide cannabis record expungement portal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The disparities highlighted by the COVID-19 health crisis in health access, education equity, underinvested neighborhoods, and lack of or underemployment, all play a role in the disproportionate impact the crisis will continue to have on Latino and underserved communities nationwide. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. Why social enterprise?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question come from a nonprofit employee who want advice on how to budget and pay for capital campaign fundraising expenses: . They summarized pros and cons of each funding model, ultimately settling on a combination. Much success!

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TechImpact

MARCH 31, 2014

The National History Museum of Los Angeles does a great job of highlighting their staff in their Instagram posts. As one might expect National Geographic’s Instagram is the model account for visually stunning images. They make your content accessible, and easily found. Show your employees’ flair with #selfie.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. The road toward full access for braille readers has a number of other hurdles that must be overcome.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Among other things, it requires new models of collaboration, which is why several leading organizations recently came together to rethink core assumptions about how to address global hunger, with the audacious goal of ending chronic hunger in our lifetimes. The approach just might serve as a model for other issues, as well.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

On June 1, programmers, activists, and civic leaders participated in the first ever National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) across 83 U.S. Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

In the social sector, the questions that often emerge are: Which organizations are addressing the crisis? As the largest source of data on philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, Candid fields many of these questions. . Candid’s real-time data is skewed toward large donors from English-speaking nations who publicize their giving.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Your team may be grappling with questions like, “How do we transform words on the page into reality?” Is there a process to ensure everyone has access and opportunity for their voice to be heard? One important thing to address is how to question without making others defensive.

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NetWits

JUNE 26, 2012

It’s not surprising that one of the questions I get asked most from the nonprofits I work with is “ what’s next in fundraising ?” My first answer to this question almost ten years ago was online giving. ” A Bit of a Historical Take. billion from these fundraisers. So what’s next?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. Wouldn’t it make more sense to make it easier for people with disabilities to get access to the books they need for education and employment? exception model works well here.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

You can access this data from year to year, so you can better determine where adjustments should be made. Do the necessary market research to learn which foundations—local, regional and national—are funding nonprofits like yours. Call or email funders with any questions about their interests and your eligibility.

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Qgiv

MARCH 9, 2022

” Obviously, this is a tricky question, and there probably isn’t one best solution. That leads to a lighter load on the system, which reduces healthcare costs for everyone accessing healthcare locally. Healthcare is just one example of how improving access to housing can uplift an entire community. Housing Resources Inc.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Her answer to the question about capacity building programs leading to better impact will surprise you. Answering these two questions is important to us at the Accelerator. Of the 50 studies we reviewed just one started with the question – “ What skills, capacities are needed to help us achieve our mission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These are some of the questions that Alexa Cortes Culwell and I set out to answer in our new report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy. As a result, many local nonprofits lack financial stability: more than 30 percent are running deficits above the national average. Bridging the Gaps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Do you hope to assess and improve your performance?

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Achieve

JUNE 9, 2014

Millennials have grown up in a hyper-connected society: A world where unanswered questions are solved by Googling and anyone with Internet access can crowdfund money for charities or spread a global message through a viral YouTube video. Steven Olikara.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The idea is that you specify your values, relationships, and assets, and then match those up with potentially fruitful legal structures, financing models, and growth potential.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

More information is in the press release below – you can contact Marie with additional questions. Our funds have helped make Oregonians healthier and better educated, provided greater access to social services and the arts and culture, strengthened the nonprofit sector and improved the environment for all who live and visit here.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The question was sparked by a couple of events. I had to wonder about some elusive “gold standard” for board performance that leaves ED’s and boards questioning themselves. And, what would it look like?”. Do we have the right board? Are we supporting them appropriately? There will be more sessions as we need them so stay tuned.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

In this unique, online, interactive (free) event - first in a monthly series - you get to see, hear, and ask questions directly to our panel of experts. The wide variety of choices and tools to integrate make this field exciting and challenging terrain for nonprofit leaders; we will take your questions in this one hour live interactive event.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2013

Question: We provide our services free to our program participants, but we are feeling the strain of limited resources. The traditional charity model is based on the expectation that organizations raise funds from institutions and individuals in order to provide services to those in need, primarily free of charge. student safety.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2019

She answered a few questions for us about their success with alternative funding and the journey they went on to create a diversified program. Because we are implementing a national expansion strategy to open new clinics in underserved areas, we also have a growth fund, which covers the start-up costs of new clinics that we open.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Consumers can ask you publicly about your social good efforts on social media, team members across the world need immediate access to a grant application, funding recipients in remote villages can provide previously inaccessible data, and more. . If you’re just starting this process, consider the creation of a logic model.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

Flickr Photo by Chi King The Federal Communications Commission is seeking public comment on how to draft America's national broadband plan. If you're an NTEN Member -- or have been lurking around for awhile -- you know that Universal Broadband Access is an issue we care deeply about. We should look to other models.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

There has been a major breakthrough recently on international copyright negotiations in Geneva around improved access for people who have print disabilities. Here are some questions and answers I've prepared on this topic, based on my recent trip to Geneva to attend the first week of discussions on the issue.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2019

make up 10% of the national workforce and 5.5% However, many nonprofits still struggle to access effective pro bono resources and integrate skills-based volunteerism as a strategic, sustainable resource for their organization. Those of us who work in the nonprofit sector know that the capacity gap is real. While more than 1.5

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Everyaction

MAY 21, 2018

One great example of this tactic is the National Education Association Foundation. Another excellent model of using a website’s donation page to highlight the option for Planned Giving is the San Francisco SPCA , which features a blurb about it, alongside their other donation options. LA BioMed does it.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This year, along with our partner, Changing Our World, we conducted a nationally representative study , among Gen Z and Millennials (those born between 1981-2001) to better understand the donation habits of Gen Z and Millennials and uncover what it means for the future of fundraising.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective. One of the main affordances of bilingual interpretation, of course, is that it provides access to content.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

But, on the other side, as Phillip Thompson said in our panel last week, our business model sets up problems, as we are always trapped by the amount of money we can raise. The big questions are, how can people make changes to improve the working conditions, and how can leaders help organizations run better? Data is not free.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2015

Fauzia Burke is the Founder and President of FSB Associates , and because she's marketed leadership books for 20 years, she was a natural for me to ask her the following questions about: trends in leadership books the leadership books that excite her the most why books in print are still relevant But, first a little more about Burke: 1.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Read the full interview with our experts to get answers to questions nonprofit leaders may ask about employee burnout, such as: How has COVID-19 impacted employee burnout and individual stress management? Employees now have more access to stress management resources and empowerment to seek the support they need on an individual level.

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