ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

The International Society for Third Sector Research published a recent paper that summarizes why nonprofit leaders must use technology to connect with stakeholders in the emerging digital, civil society. NLP is useful for an AI model to identify the intent of a person based on what they say or what they type. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Fundraising Analytics Analysis Nonprofit 98

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve been actively advocating for an international copyright exception model that would greatly benefit people with disabilities, as anyone who has read my blog over the years can attest! We could serve many more with a comparable international model. copyright exception. I’m excited to report: they did just that.

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Morocco United States Copyright Library 127

Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

It’s not a business model. . At this meeting, you’ll approve the bylaws, adopt the conflict-of-interest policy, elect directors, appoint officers, and approve resolutions such as opening the organization’s bank account. Establish financial auditing procedures and internal controls. . Why is that important?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

They often resort to either tasking an ill-equipped staff member or intern to submit a grant proposal when that person has limited experience understanding the grantseeking process. Adopt a decision-making framework. Schedule a team meeting with your organization to run through the SOAR Model more in-depth.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

They often resort to either tasking an ill-equipped staff member or intern to submit a grant proposal when that person has limited experience understanding the grantseeking process. Adopt a decision-making framework. Schedule a team meeting with your organization to run through the SOAR Model more in-depth.

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Grant Guide Proposal Nonprofit 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

We believe that any measurement of the impact of investment in strong organizations should ultimately come back to demonstrating the additional impact organizations are able to achieve after receiving this kind of support. Most had weak measures of accountability especially towards clients, beneficiaries and community.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

User adoption is a tricky beast. Naturally, clients tend to focus on the technical aspects that surround adoption: picking a solution that meets the list of user needs they have identified. But what about the people/social factors that influence adoption? Even better. Please share your own in the comments section.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Assessment and Adoption of Sales Methodologies. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt. Technology Adoption and Optimization. Even then, there are organizational models and structural templates you can build from. Pipeline Efficiency measures how effective sellers are at managing their pipelines. . Operations.

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Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 145

Givinga

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Perhaps most importantly, technology has sped up the dissemination and adoption of emerging types of giving such as crowdfunding. As the importance of corporate giving continues to increase and drive advancements in philantech , we’ll continue to see the impact and adoption of corporate giving increase into 2019 and beyond.

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Trend Giving ROI Measure 56

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

This might involve establishing data models and structures that allow you to standardize information from a variety of sources, validating that information, appending your data with additional details, and prioritizing data security. Consider factors like data modeling, schema design, data integration processes, and data governance.

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Data Guide Proposal Nonprofit 52

Forum One

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It aims to help people become more aware of or engage in something and can be applied not only to external audiences but internal ones too. Creating communications that look pretty and appealing isn’t enough to engage audiences, and traditional communications methods and models no longer move the needle. Optimizing value.

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Communication Strategy Audience Press 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The specific technologies highlighted in the reports are place along a continuum of near-term, mid-term, and far-term field adoption: One year or less to adoption: Cloud Computing (K-12), Mobile Learning (K-12), MOOC (Higher Ed), Tablet Computing (Higher Ed).

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Analytics Teach Training Train 97

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Robust CSR software helps alleviate the struggles of managing your company’s philanthropic initiatives and measuring impact, so you can focus on driving employee participation and making bigger waves with your efforts. They track employee participation and measure the impact of these programs.

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Software Business Guide Companies 52

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It can sit on top of any CRM solution, Blackbaud or otherwise, and is focused on helping your team identify, set, and monitor goals and benchmark performance against internal and industry peers. You can also measure your team’s actions as a whole against those of other major gift teams to see if you’re aligned with the competition.

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Blackbaud Guide Management Fundraising 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Your organization needs to think holistically. If you don’t have a developmental model, you won’t know where to start or how to prioritize your time. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model. Or as Inga Broerman, Guide Star VP of Marketing said, “You won’t know what to say no to.&#.

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Social Media Practice Media Social 101

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. We’re pleased to contribute to today’s theme, celebrating the fifth of the six principles: Fair Use Rights.

Copyright 196

Copyright Law Accessibility Library 196

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 23, 2018

According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, “nonprofit leaders must focus more attention on innovation, measuring the impact of their efforts, and creating funding structures that encourage risk taking, according to a report from Independent Sector." Overhaul the governance model and committee operations.

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Arizona Tucson Test America 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Why should we measure story in a new way? To do this we have to be able to measure story in a new way. As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. .

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Story Action Model Adopt 79

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2020

When international students had to return to their home countries, m any institutions matched international alumni living abroad with these students back in their home country. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen the resiliency and creativity of the higher education industry shine through. A few great examples include: .

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Virtual South Carolina Student Education 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors. E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen.

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Jordan Saudi Arabia Morocco Lebanon 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. Grantees get better at communication, proactive planning, partner engagement, message discipline and social media integration and measurement.

Social Media 97

Social Media Training Train Network 97

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 2, 2009

There are a TON of lists out there that identify the top _# of things to do for really anything you want to explore (whether it’s building a model or building an organization). I’ve been thinking about these lists in terms of adopting social media tools and think that most of the lists are hitting on the same exact things.

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Social Media Process Media Social 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Several months ago, my colleague Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable invited me to facilitate a discussion with members about the issues that swirl around organizational adoption of social media. We look at the wrong measures or unrealistic outcomes. I think this is the key to adoption and social media success.

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Social Media Culture Create Media 99

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. I’m measuring this entire effort by how it much it does to change this sorry state of affairs, in both the short and long term.

Accessibility 133

Accessibility Global Copyright Law 133

Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. Tablet adoption is very brisk.

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Phone NSF PowerPoint Mobile 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

What am I supposed to measure? For this post, I wanted to focus on the first issue - the mismatch between organizational culture and social media adoption. Jeremiah Owyang shared three different models for how corporations organize and deploy social media: 1. Does it match any of the above models? No clear leader.

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Social Media Media Social Model 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

There is some good basic common sense advice about how to move forward with adopting Web 2.0 Build internal allies. Will it take new leadership to truly adapt, or can early adopters model behaviors for others to emulate? world any different from the measurement obstacles of traditional communication? Be strategic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

One barrier to adoption of social media tools (and other technologies) is a concern from management or your boss about the value or benefits. I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured. And both can be difficult to measure. What's the roi? Are you simply wasting your time?

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ROI Social Media Media Social 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

The fact that there is no original recording by Beck of the Song Reader songs, no model upon which "covers" would be based, frees the reader to imagine the songs in any number of ways. These kinds of participatory projects can actually de-motivate because participants can''t possibly measure up to the display model.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Candid

APRIL 17, 2024

But in the wake of the pandemic, the “Great Resignation,” and waves of burnout , more nonprofits may be adopting co-leadership models as they experiment with new ways of working, sharing power, centering BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) leaders, and planning for succession. The concept of co-leadership is not new.

Leadership 105

Leadership Comparison Model Analysis 105

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. Adoption is something we’ll come back to later as well. Community-Driven Model. Communities are flexible. Principles.

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Library Model Adopt Community 241

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Measuring the Return on Relationships by Claire Diaz Ortiz (nee Williams). Although I opened the discussion, I didn’t take it far enough, and too many of you came away with the same, burning question: How can we measure the ROI of relationships? Measuring the ROI of a fundraising campaign is equally simple. Understood.

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Relationship Measure ROI Influence 108

Gyrus

APRIL 10, 2018

How To Foster User Adoption In Your New Learning Management System? One of the easiest and strongest components of User adoption is making your users feel as if they have a say in what is to be selected. Successful implementations hinge on how well the user base accepts the new program and what is has to offer. Recent Post.

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Learning Management Adopt System Learning 80

Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

When done poorly, they can become sources of confusion for both internal and external audiences. This list is ideally sorted into areas and is primarily an Internal list that your audience does not see. This is primarily internal, but it may also appear in your statements. Internal and external. Internal and external.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit International Team Process 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

This post is an inspirational message and reminder that stubborn visionary optimism drives accomplishments and that half measures and incremental steps just don’t seem to get us very far when it comes to education. How can we support innovation, invention, and adoption of transformative technology for the public good?

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Virtual Brain Nonprofit Global 84