Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Profits were allowed, but they were legitimized by the mission within the business charter. In modern-day America, businesses are held legally accountable to maximize profits for shareholders, frequently at the exclusion of all else. A structure has emerged to serve this purpose, called the Benefit Corporation.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Considering the major benefits that corporate partnerships can offer, your nonprofit needs a defined strategy to raise more from corporate philanthropy and build stronger relationships with businesses. Benefits of corporate philanthropy Corporate philanthropy offers win-win benefits for both corporations and the nonprofits they support.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests. My point is that copyright exceptions enable the ebook to deliver far more social benefit than would be practical in an earlier era.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. DT: In your book, we learn that you found your calling quite young when you visited a death row inmate during your summer internship for law school.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

Smashing Icons Toyama’s central thesis is that we tend to overstate the benefits of technology as a magic bullet. His “Law of Amplification” was particularly insightful: “technology’s primary effect is to amplify human forces.” At the same time, there are some flaws in his arguments that are worth pointing out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’ve already seen AI’s potential to transform our own products and benefit the world through applications like flood forecasting or monitoring whale species. With AI and resources from Google.org, Thorn has been able to identify to law enforcement close to 9,000 traffickers and 28,000 victims. aichallenge.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

My TechSoup Global colleague Lewis Haidt was at the conference as well and penned Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy , which provides a good primer on what it is and how a nonprofit-centric sharing economy can benefit all of us. Despite having modeled institutionalized sharing for literally centuries ( hello, public libraries! )

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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. The good news?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 1, 2013

The social economy includes more than foundations and individual donors; it consists of the development of venture capital from crowdfunding platforms, social benefit firms (low profit/return on social mission), formal and informal networks of giving, and peer-to-peer and commercial businesses with an embedded cause (profit maximization firms).

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Forj

JULY 5, 2017

The program can be broken down into two different tracks: Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (Advanced APMs). The keynote session on Wednesday, Master Your World: 10 Executive Strategies to Improve Productivity, Profits, and Communications with Mary C. How to Write for Physicians.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Yet, they still have access to CRM features and benefits. The Person Account model is the data model configuration recommended by Salesforce. In this model, Business Accounts and Individual Person Accounts are treated as “Account” equals. Nimble AMS embraces the Person Accounts model. big, costly?upgrades,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. SL is not some new revolutionary model that has never been seen before. Come on, get real already. SL has the potential to add a new level to the existing web technologies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Of course, this is a familiar concept to me as someone who started his career building for-profit tech companies in Silicon Valley. The primary goal in the Valley is massive change, because when you’re a for-profit that magnitude usually yields massive profits. And that’s what we did with Bookshare! The first was the ebook.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 2016 Government and Not-for-Profit Conference. General / @southwestfdns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Pratham Books is a non-profit children’s book publisher based in India and our mission, while simple, is also rather audacious – “A Book in Every Child’s Hand”. Being both a non-profit and a small one at that, has its own downsides – of limited time, money and resources. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Oakland has changed its laws in the last few years where you have to pay per transfer. We saw that there was a need, and we saw that if you build this powerful business model that was this source, or hub, of economic organizing, and food systems organizing and education, it would be powerful. But we wanted to do it.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 11, 2021

Myth #2 Roberts Rules is the Law. We’ve all found ourselves in unwieldy committee meetings where no procedure model was in place. Myth #3 Board Members Can’t Profit from Their Work for the Organization. It may be in your bylaws to follow Robert’s Rules of Order, but there is no legal requirement to do so. Lack of records.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Modelled on eugenicist theory, the software is used to capture people’s faces and compare the photos to existing databases, with the aim of identifying and locating people – often producing highly racist results. The site hardly represents a significant venture, at least not in the sense of obvious profits.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We welcome and celebrate the innovation of the private sector, and the role of democracy is to come in and to ensure that we harness the great benefits that innovation can bring to society and really try to limit or mitigate the harmful effects that also happen. Reich: Democracy is that guardrail.

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