Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

grant proposals, solicitation letters, etc.)? Governance and Leadership Skills Have you served on a board before? Consider adopting donor management systems, CRM platforms, and data analytics tools to improve board engagement and fundraising effectiveness. Are you comfortable with writing persuasively (e.g.,

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community. Nonprofit organizations, local and federal governments, campaigners and even businesses are trying to innovate at the speed of communities. Leadership and decision making come from adoption not from executive authority.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

These early adopters understood the need to explore opportunities outside of conventional funding sources to achieve financing needed to scale their work and increase their impact on communities. For these organizations, the balance of “money and mission” offered by social enterprise approaches was a promise fulfilled.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

Introducing the National Talent Bank - The National Talent Bank is an idea proposed by the Council on Social Action. Fission Strategy | Fast Company - Based on recent studies about Internet and communication technology use or adoption, the Digital Divide doesn't seem to necessarily be disappearing. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

A clear presentation of the facts and the argument in favor of support–and a well-targeted grant proposal that fits with the funder’s area(s) of interest–is often best. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network is focused on helping nonprofit staff adopt new technologies in their chosen areas of expertise, and to thrive by doing so.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

One tip I could have used early on was to plan and design the grant project before writing up a query letter or proposal. Most funders require applicants to state the outcomes of their project in the proposal. A good grant proposal should be suffused with how success can and will be measured.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

The big recent digital inclusion news is the Federal Communication Commission's ( FCC ) proposal to extend the Lifeline Program , which has supplied discounted phone service to low-income people since 1985. If this proposal is enacted, it will, at a stroke, do more to close the U.S. Expansion of the FCC's Lifeline Service.

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Accessibility Internet Work San Francisco 36

Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2016

Fortunately, this post will offer tools and resources that can help your organization adopt a consistent and thoughtful process that will keep your grants pipeline full. The matrix can be applied to requests for proposals and grant application guidelines. Proposed project in short, narrative format.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

However, in the push towards impact, philanthropy has adopted a laundry list of activities—landscape scans, focus groups, case studies, logic models—to help in figuring out what is important to know to “do good” better. These are often perceived as disconnected from and less important than grant strategy.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2011

As long as the grantmaker keeps these quizzes fairly general, and they don't get too specific with their questions, I think this is going to be a wonderful new way for grantseekers to pre-screen their own organization before going through the process of writing a letter of inquiry, or even a full proposal.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 8, 2016

Adopting and consistently using a process is what makes all of this work. Look for Government and Private Sources. Always look at potential government funding sources first, even if you don’t want government funding. There are two key reasons for this approach: You identify government funding for your project.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In the absence of social media compliance and regulatory standards, social networking technologies face increased scrutiny in both the government and commercial sectors. While many government leaders and corporate executives recognize the ability for social media to enable organizations to ?tap tap into the vast amounts of knowledge ?

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

It's a great gathering of policy wonks, transparency advocates, IT geeks in from in and out of government - all excited and busy with shaping a whole new day in how government information will be made more accessible, valuable and transparent. It's ongoing today - Sunday - and you can follow it by viewing the (high volume!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Production Network: This type of network inspires and encourages collective action by members to create innovative practices, public-policy proposals, and other tools or products that lead to social impact. Governance: Who decides what the network will do, how do they decide? Resources: What is the network’s funding model?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Challenge organizers reserved the right to send the proposals back and ask for further clarification of the problem. This is part 3 in a series exploring how TechSoup works with technology companies, local communities, foundations, government agencies, hackers, and activists to accelerate technology innovation and adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Sam shared a story that illustrates the barriers that many nonprofit organizations face in adopting social media and harnessing its power leading to successful outcomes. I was asked by marketing to submit a full proposal to them about Facebook and get their approval before going forward and for anything I post to the group.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2016

Legislation includes action by Congress, any state legislature, any local council, or similar governing body, with respect to acts, bills, resolutions, or similar items (such as legislative confirmation of appointive office), or by the public in referendum, ballot initiative, constitutional amendment, or similar procedure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 9, 2024

Adopting a sustainable fundraising approach builds a resilient shield, ensuring your vital programs and services remain uninterrupted. Understanding a corporation’s social responsibility goals is key to aligning your proposal with their objectives. Been there, faced that!

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

In this article, we will explain why everyone is talking about AI, what has changed over the past few years, and evaluate opportunities for nonprofits to adopt AI to improve their mission-aligned outcomes safely. Jump to: What is AI, and why should I care? What do these new AI tools do? What is AI, and why should I care?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

McKnight used to require two application steps: a letter of inquiry, followed by a full proposal. For some of these apps, we’re still in adoption phase. If you can consolidate to a core set of applications that help you do what you need to do well, it will make your governance and management much easier.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The annual 24-hour giving day, created to counter the retail-heavy push that begins with Black Friday, has thousands of nonprofits, businesses, city governments, and other institutions participating in a drive to highlight generosity and partnership for good. billion was donated to US based nonprofits, a 25% increase from 2019.

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Guide Giving Campaign Social Media 73

Cloud 4 Good

MAY 13, 2022

We’re seeking an exceptional Sales Leader to help lead our Higher Education sales organization and provide a path for our customer to transform the way they adopt, implement, and fully leverage the Salesforce Platform. Are you ready to join the #BestTeamEver? This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who” thought it up or campaigned for it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S., In addition, the two national organizations of blind people both just passed formal resolutions in favor of the treaty proposal. Government support this effort?

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 1, 2022

However, the second Monday in October is still celebrated by 14 states and about 130 local governments as Columbus Day. 1977: Indigenous Peoples’ Day was first proposed by a UN conference held to address discrimination against Native Americans. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Plus, you can adopt these approaches into your marketing plan to strengthen your promotional strategies. Grants are large donations provided to nonprofits from foundations, corporations, or government agencies. This includes writing a proposal that helps you stand out from the crowd. Make your proposal memorable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

As always happens, these slow adopters will eventually be dragged kicking and screaming along when they find nobody occupying the space they stayed behind to protect. more preposterous than proposing an immersive MUVE communications revolution). I have a large collection of buttons that I??? I also have been around this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. NTEN used a hybrid crowdsourcing approach to solicit panel proposals for its NTC 2011, similar in design and approach to the method SXSW has used. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

” Maybe for an animal welfare you’re going to be looking at the health records or adoption rates of the pets you serve. Grant proposals. “Sixty five percent of cats adopted transferred out, and it’s a record at Lollipop Farm.” You’ve got someone inputting it into the system.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

But as many of us have found out the hard way, on-time and on-budget projects do not necessarily mean a new system will realize proposed goals and yield expected value…or that users will even adopt the system as desired. If not, considering pausing to get a governance team in place before going too much further.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, government and business. The framework is super flexible - as just about any kind of action can be proposed and organized. Green Drinks. Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up at informal sessions known as Green Drinks.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

anniversary celebrates British physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for creating the World Wide Web in 1989. We so often mistakenly think of noncommercial technology as an area of slower adoption. features a video of former California governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger rolling around crushing things with his own personal tank.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2008

Regulation of nonprofits globally is an important issue, and I'm concerned that someone make actually adopt this package of reforms, making some of the "voluntary" reforms compulsory. My thesis is that his pamphlet (as he describes it) is long on myth and short on reality.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2016

As a nonprofit organization grows to include dozens, sometimes hundreds, of local offices, the leaders have to wrestle with the best way to govern, organize and manage greater complexity. Think of it as a starting point to inform future strategy for organizational structure rather than as a proposal that explicitly favors any of the models.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The logic that we really proposed is that, well, what really matters, the one common input, is the time of the artisan who made it; and if the artisan took two hours to make it and you paid that person a dollar, that could be a very good price. So, that is a very important accomplishment that we had over the last year-and-a-half.

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