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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

Much like a developing human, our data collections have gotten bigger over time (see chart below), undergone developmental changes, and experienced the associated growing pains. 2002-2012 – Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S.

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Fundraising Planning Guide, Calendar, Worksheet, + Template

CauseVox

The downloadable spreadsheet includes a sample, along with a blank template for you to use for your own plan. These strategies should also have specific metrics and/or KPIs associated with them to measure their success. Download your fundraising calendar + goals template below: Sample Fundraising Calendar. Create A Path Forward.

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Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock: Adding to Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy Sample Ward writes a blog about nonprofit technology and social media and is the community builder for Netsquared. Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. and Lindy Dryer work with associations to help them integrate social media.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

ASU Lodestar Center

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development Welcome to Research Friday ! The main point of comparison is information on volunteering from the Current Population Survey (CPS), conducted by the U.S. Disclaimer Friday, March 18, 2011 Research Friday: "Really, How Many People Volunteer?" One in three.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java. Convio’s APIs and Extensions are free, but the Database connectors have consulting costs associated with them, and that makes sense to me. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Wrangling your RSS Feeds by Amy Sample Ward 4. Set up your Listening Radar and Response System Your radar will have different components: Ego Feeds: Search on your organization's name, url, or other specific identifier. Here's a few: Bloglines.

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Observations and Reflections on #TakeBackThePink

Amy Sample Ward

On January 31st, the social web erupted with status updates, images, and more in response to the Associated Press report that the Susan G. An interesting model to use for comparison is Occupy Wall Street. Komen Foundation had decided to de-fund breast health screenings at Planned Parenthood affiliates. Five hundred people?