AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With the rise of COVID-19 cases and the second wave fast approaching, hosting a virtual school event is much more accessible, allowing your school to follow district, county, and state guidelines, putting parents’ minds at ease. Virtual Back to School Night or Virtual Open House. One way to do this is to host a virtual escape room! .

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With the rise of COVID-19 cases and the second wave fast approaching, hosting a virtual school event is much more accessible, allowing your school to follow district, county, and state guidelines, putting parents’ minds at ease. Virtual Back to School Night or Virtual Open House. One way to do this is to host a virtual escape room! .

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Virtual Ideas Virtual Classroom Classroom 52

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. This is an awesome cross-platform mind mapping tool.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Keep in mind that donors give because they’re passionate about your mission. There are two primary parts of a solicitation to keep in mind: the meeting setting and the language you use to ask for a donation. However, they generally don’t allow for the same level of personal interaction as the in-person alternative.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

It's a fascinating experiment in connecting with "nontraditional" arts audiences and encouraging strangers to dialogue about diverse topics in a performative environment. They have an open collections policy, and they see media artifacts as objects that connect people--to art, to history, to politics, and to each other.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 18, 2020

Even if your charity isn’t aimed at an environment based cause, it is still important that you ensure your campaigns are eco-friendly. Keep this in mind when buying anything you need for running your nonprofit, buy as locally as you can to lower emissions. Not only will this help the planet but also improve your donation numbers.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2010

With her family's support, Krystal applied to study at Holden High School , an alternative school in Orinda, California. A nonprofit organization with 13 full-time and 7 part-time staff, Holden aims to provide a safe, open-minded learning environment for students who haven't had success in public schools or elsewhere.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 3, 2019

Nonprofits must be willing to take small risks and employ a creative approach in order to change the minds of donors who expect unrealistically low overhead costs. Nonprofit executives should be seizing the opportunity to embrace alternative fundraising methods and designing the events to be both educational and entertaining for donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’ve wrote about the importance of building resilience in networks given the complex and connected environment we live in today. None of the bridges on or off Long Island were open. Crowdsourcing also provided information on gas stations that were still open (and where lines were actually moving).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Sometimes you don’t have the ability to do a survey before, especially if it is an online webinar or a conference session. There are alternative ways to do research. You also need to consider the learning environment, any constraints, the delivery options, and the timeline for the project.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 17, 2007

The discussion of Open Content I joined last week has continued. I think we as a community also need to consider possible negative impacts of advocating that all content ought to be open. I think we as a community also need to consider possible negative impacts of advocating that all content ought to be open.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

With those factors in mind, we’ve put together a list of 52 nonprofit event ideas to help serve as a “vision board” for your organization’s next event. You can throw an “opening night” fundraiser with tickets to create some buzz and excitement around the exhibit while giving your staff a great opportunity to chat up donors.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Start an exploratory project to open a small, probably struggling, museum? Director Lewis Sharp and I quickly convinced the Belmar developers that they didn't want paintings from the basement, but a dynamic alternative to the traditional art museum. And isn't that what museums should contribute to their local environments?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2009

C2 brought together 100 exhibit-minded folks on the beach in Monterey, CA for 48 hours of making, learning, playing, contemplating, and celebrating. And most notably (for me, at least), we felt really good about opening up to each other. And we got to do it all in a beautiful natural environment. It was incredible. We had fun.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s dive in by starting with the key principles to keep in mind when forming your fundraising strategy. In fact, we found that 71% of donors are open to assisting in fundraising activities for organizations they support. Key Fundraising Principles We’ve picked four key principles that are at the heart of good fundraising.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

We dodge opportunities to write whenever we can, though we never cease to smile when we open our mailboxes and dis­cover a handwritten letter addressed to us. Your job is to dis­cover ways to create an easy-going environment that encourages your entire staff to become better writers.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

That’s a good way to open up the discussion. Opening up a new book. Is what they’re looking for in an employee and the kind of way that they like to organize their work environment and style a good alignment and a good fit? Ephraim: Okay. So we’ll start there. ” And then Monday morning I transitioned.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And you do not want, obviously, to be having your data and your applications being accessed on an open network that is open to anyone in the vicinity essentially. Providing accommodations for somebody with a disability to be able to work from home looks a little different from providing those accommodations in the office environment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Companies participate and get to use the Fair Trade Certified label when they open their books and demonstrate that they bought direct from the farmers and paid a fair price. They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. So, we're mindful of that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You’re increasing your visibility in the right areas and trying to stick in the minds of others through active interaction on many different levels. This will allow you to observe what your audience is saying in their natural environment. It is important to explore both positives and negatives perceptions and alternatives.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Most of our nonprofits have a human or community interest in mind, that purpose, and they exist to create impact, positive impact on the communities that we serve. So when you think about impact, think about the fact that people don’t want to just support your existence just because, you know, keep those doors open, keep the lights on.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

First thing in the morning here for me, I know it’s afternoon for you, but do you mind kind of reading the chat box as we go? We had surveyed an alternative high school and half the kids had said, “There’s no adult that I can talk to but I need to talk to somebody.” It’s a good group. Steven: Yes.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

From 1971 to 1974 he was the founding editor of the excellent New Times alternative newspaper in Phoenix, where I first found out about him. Are there some nonprofit social enterprise opportunities you’re seeing opening up? It is a device to extract social and economic wealth from human waste, while protecting the environment.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

This fall, I went with friends to see the new Mind exhibition at the Exploratorium. We went on opening weekend and elected to watch a couple of short films related to humor, including one by Mira Nair on the laughing clubs of India. By couching the experience within a comfortable environment.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I didn't grow up staring open-mouthed at natural history dioramas or wandering through art galleries. I work in museums because I hate schools and see museums as a viable alternative. I didn't have a clue about the other rationales for museums--places of stored knowledge, places to keep stuff, places to colonize minds.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

That's part of what so surprises me since, as you aptly described it, what LAMs really like is the idea of the democratic, civic-minded space. Open ocean is scary. Eric: LAMs are attracted to the welcoming and open world supported by his idea of conversation, though for us it’s more the conversation about something(s).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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